20+ Christmas Art Activities for Preschoolers
Christmas is a special time for kids of all ages and grownups too! Parents and grandparents love to receive homemade gifts from the children in their lives, and these art projects make beautiful gifts. Here are 20+ Christmas art activities for preschoolers to make.
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Christmas Art Activities for Preschoolers
I love making easy Christmas crafts with my kids and discovering all the wonderful skills they can learn from crafts! But there’s a really special place in my heart for art projects, especially process art, around the holidays.
I love including lots of process art in my lesson plans because this kind of art allows preschoolers and toddlers the flexibility and freedom to explore art materials. To really use and manipulate them.
While in many process art activities I will show my toddlers and preschoolers a specific technique, I do not force them to use said technique. If a child should ever be allowed to break the rules and step over boundaries, it should be in art!
Toddlers and preschoolers especially benefit from process art activities. And they can be naturals at it too, since they naturally question any process put before them. They wonder and ask all those, “what if?” questions.
That’s just one of many reasons I adore this Christmas process art activities for preschoolers. It not only presents new techniques, but it also allows for plenty of freedom to manipulate the materials.
These Christmas art activities for preschoolers 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.
FAQs about Christmas Art for Kids
Process art is about allowing the children to enjoy the experience of being creative and not about the end product. Crafts require quite a bit of prep time from adults and the result is a completed project in which every child’s craft will look approximately the same.
Loved ones, especially grandparents, love to receive homemade crafts as gifts from the little children in their lives. Some Christmas craft ideas for kids to make include ornaments, canvas art to hang on the wall, and salt dough handprint keepsakes.
Christmastime is so much fun for preschoolers. Some ways to make the holiday season even more special is to create Christmas sensory bins, make cute Christmas tree crafts, play Christmas games, learn songs to sing, and read lots of Christmas books! Hosting a holiday party is also a lot of fun with preschoolers.
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!
Beautiful Kid-Made Ornaments Make the Perfect Gift for Grandma
These beautiful, kid-made watercolor ornaments are sure to bring a smile to someone’s face.
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.
