20+ Christmas Art Activities for Preschoolers
Celebrate the season with Christmas art activities for preschoolers that double as keepsakes and gifts! These Christmas activities for preschool make learning creative and fun while fostering fine motor and artistic skills.
Here are 20+ Christmas art projects easy enough for little kids!
Christmas art activities are a wonderful way to bring the holiday spirit into your classroom or home. These creative projects not only encourage artistic expression but also help little ones develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and an appreciation for festive traditions.
Read about fine motor development and hand strengthening activities here.
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From crafting homemade ornaments to painting winter scenes, incorporating Christmas preschool activities into your lesson plans keeps young learners engaged and excited.
Plus, the joy on their faces as they create gifts for loved ones is truly priceless!
Why Christmas Art Activities for Preschoolers
These art projects activities are very simple to set up and require only a little bit of prep time from adults. Using basic art and craft supplies such as paper plates, pipe cleaners, pom poms, popsicle sticks, and cotton balls preschoolers and toddlers can create a unique gift for loved ones or Christmas decor.
Art activities are so goof for working fine motor skills, like in this list of Christmas fine motor activities or this Christmas writing center for preschool.
Let’s explore how these activities can make this holiday season even more meaningful for your preschoolers.
FAQs about Christmas Art Activities for Kids
You can simplify the activities by providing larger, easy-to-handle materials like jumbo crayons or washable paint. Focus on open-ended processes rather than specific outcomes to make it enjoyable and age-appropriate for younger children.
Lay down washable tablecloths or placemats, use washable art supplies, and have wipes or damp cloths on hand for quick cleanup. Encouraging children to help with tidying up is also a great way to teach responsibility.
Tie the art activities to learning themes like shapes, colors, counting, or storytelling. For example, have children create a paper chain while practicing counting or paint ornaments while discussing color recognition.
20+ Christmas Art Activities for Preschoolers
These 20+ Christmas Art activities for preschoolers will have them enjoying the process while creating lovely decorations and Christmas gifts for loved ones. The best part is most of these art projects do not take much prep time at all!
Christmas Paper Plate Wreath
Both toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy making this Christmas process art project and seeing it hung on the wall with care. So gather up your supplies and get ready to deck the halls with this Christmas paper plate wreath!
Christmas Sensory Painting With Pine Boughs
Painting with pine boughs is a process-based art activity for preschoolers that appeals to more than one sense. While doing pine bough painting this Christmas, preschoolers will explore through their senses of sight, hearing, touch, and smell.
Sparkly Christmas Paintings Make Beautiful Gifts
This is Christmas process art at its best. With no specific outcome intended, these Christmas beauties still make wonderfully sparkly keepsakes.
Homemade Feather Bauble Christmas Ornaments
Try these feather stuffed ornaments for a new idea! It's one that will work your preschoolers’ fine motor skills and will bring loads of bright color to the Christmas tree, too!
Watercolor Ornaments Make the Perfect Gift for Grandma
There’s nothing better than seeing a loved one open a handmade gift crafted with care, like these watercolor ornaments. While preschoolers may see it as simple art, recipients will treasure this heartfelt ornament.
Christmas Collages/Preschool Process Art
This idea for Christmas art for preschoolers emphasizes the creative process over the end result and leaves your preschoolers excited about their individual artwork.
Tie Dye Coffee Filter Christmas Tree Craft
This tie dye coffee filter Christmas tree craft is a great process art activity for preschoolers! This is an excellent craft to make with a group of children because no two trees will be the same.
Marbled Christmas Ornaments
This process art project combines art and science to create unique marbled Christmas ornaments. Use magnets and paint to make these fun ornaments to hang on the tree this year.
Simple Bubblewrap Christmas Cards
Create these one of a kind Christmas cards with your preschoolers. This simple Christmas card craft uses recycled materials and a bit of paint.
Pom Pom Painting Christmas Tree Craft
Preschoolers will have fun with this process art Christmas tree craft. It's so simple even toddlers can do it!
Paint Splat Angel Craft
This splat paint angel craft is simply adorable! Preschoolers will have so much fun squishing the paint to create this unique process art craft.
Reverse Fingerprint Christmas Tree Cards
Preschoolers and toddlers will love these reverse fingerprint Christmas tree cards for their friends and family this holiday season.
Jingle Bell Painting Christmas Process Art
In this jingle bell Christmas process art activity, kids take the lead on creating as they move and shake to create their own art with jingle bells.
Squish Art Christmas Tree Craft
Toddlers, preschoolers, and older kids are going to LOVE this fun squish art Christmas tree craft. It makes for some unique holiday cards!
Stamped Christmas Tree Craft For Kids
The perfect Christmas craft to utilize the recycling bin and have fun with simple items around the house! These stamped cardboard Christmas trees also include some fun with exploring shapes.
Tinfoil Process Art Christmas Ornaments
With this tinfoil process art Christmas ornament craft, your child will explore a new painting technique as they create Christmas ornaments.
How to Make a Marbled Homemade Christmas Card with Kids
Preschoolers will have a blast making these homemade Christmas cards with the marbling process! It can get a bit messy, but that just adds to the fun.
Torn Scrapbook Paper Holly Wreath
Preschoolers will have fun tearing pretty holiday themed scrapbook paper and gluing it to create this wreath.
Beautiful Sponge Painted Poinsettias
Toddlers and preschoolers will love using sponges to paint these festive poinsettias. Plus, it is a super easy process art project!
Gift Bow Painted Canvas Process Art
Preschoolers will have so much fun creating this gift bow painted canvas. It makes a great gift for parents and family.
Fun Christmas Tree Art Activity {Using a Salad Spinner!}
Try this easy Christmas tree art activity if you are looking for a fun activity that is all about the process. It's perfect for toddlers and preschoolers!
Christmas Tree and Ornament Art for Toddlers
Toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy this process art project creating ornaments with colorful bit of foil.
These 20+ Christmas process art activities, including Christmas wreaths, Christmas ornaments, Christmas trees, and Christmas cards, make wonderful diy Christmas gifts for family. They also can be festive decorations to make the home or classroom merry and bright!
I’m Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home-mama of five! I’m the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught a range of levels, from preschool to college and a little bit of everything in between. Right now my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction.
