Christmas and Winter Arts and Crafts




	Snow On a dark blue piece of paper ask your child to paint falling snow flakes and piles of snow on the ground.

	Decorate Christmas Tree Paint a simple Christmas tree and let a child to "decorate it" with strokes of bright colors.

	House in snow Show your child how to paint a simple house on a dark blue paper. Your child can add some lights into the windows and snow flakes falling, as well as some snow on the ground.

Painting A Christmas Tree.
First let your child paint a brown tree trunk. Then he can paint some green branches (each with a single brush stroke, starting with the short upper ones and finishing with long lower branches). He can add some darker green branches at the end.
When the painting dries, your child can add some colorful dots (tree decorations).

Winter trees.
Let your child color the sheet of paper in using a medium blue color. This will be the sky.
Let it dry. Ask him if trees have leaves in winter and what trees stay green. Ask him to paint some trees. Let the painting dry again. Meanwhile, talk about how snow falls, how it stays on the ground and helps trees to not freeze. Finally, ask your child to paint some snow falling and lying on the ground and trees.

Play Dough Christmas Tree.
Help your child make 3-4 conical shapes out of a green piece of play-dough. Stack them up on top of each other. Decorate your tree with anything he likes.

Play Dough Snowman
Make a snowman using three playdough balls of different sizes. Add orange nose, black eyes, sticks for hands.

You may substitute one or two playdough balls with pine cone(s)

Paper lanterns.
You will need 2 pieces of paper (you can use several different colors or just one), one 3 in. long and 3.5 in. wide and another 4 in long and 5 or 6 in. wide. Use the smaller piece to make the central cylinder by gluing the opposite edges together. Then fold the bigger piece lengthwise and cut or let your child cut it the way it's shown in the picture. Unfold it and glue one side to the top of the cylinder and and the other to the bottom. Use a long, narrow strip of paper for the handle. When the lantern is complete decorate it with some glitter glue.
You can make these "lanterns" any size you like. Just make sure that the cylinder is shorter than the outer part.

Paper Cristmas tree.
Fold half of a sheet of construction paper "accordion" style. Cut out half of a Christmas tree shape (or any other shape). Unfold it and glue neighboring sides to one another in pairs. Then glue the last sides to each other. While gluing, put a thread inside the tree, to be able to hang the toy. After the toy dries decorate it with glitter glue.

A paper ornament with your child's drawings.
Cut out 4 equal size circles. Ask your child to draw or paint something on them. You can also print your favorite photo(s) onto regular paper and cut the circles out of it. Fold each circle into halves and glue the blank parts one to another (place a piece of thread in between them while gluing).

Little Ginger Bread House
This is a small and simple "gingerbread" house. Even a 5 year old kid can make it. It's also a great project for a children's Christmas party (you just have to cut the cookies in advance).
You'll need regular graham crackers, white frosting and whatever candies or sprinkles you have (for decoration).
Put some frosting on a paper plate to make a base for the house. Make a door on a “side-wall” cracker using frosting. Stick the walls into the base. Then, put some frosting on the crackers that will make the roof and cover the house with them. Put some frosting on the roof. Decorate the house.

Paper chain garland
Get some colored paper or let your child color some regular white paper. Cut the paper into strips of similar width and length. Glue together the ends of one strip to make a ring. Insert the next strip of paper into first ring and glue together the ends of the second strip. Repeat this step as many times as necessary to reach the desired length of the garland. You can make several different garlands by changing the width and length of the paper strips or by combining strips of two(or more) different lengths in a single garland.

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