Christmas crafts
The most beautiful ideas for all ages
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Christmas handicrafts are fun and brighten up the time leading up to the festival. Whether sewing, folding or decorating: let yourself be inspired by the handicraft ideas and instructions.
When it’s cold outside, it’s snowing and we’re getting closer to Christmas, we really get into the crafting mood. And we let our imagination run wild: We crochet and potter, we glue, decorate and fold. The result is chic Christmas tree decorations, Froebel stars, magical Christmas cribs and paper fir trees – as gifts or decoration.
Christmas decorations: craft ideas
You can easily make your own Christmas decorations: Whether painting Christmas tree balls for the Christmas tree, threading garlands or making pendants from modeling clay or salt dough yourself – get into the Christmas spirit with these craft ideas.
Christmas crafts with craft instructions
Advent calendars are a great gift for friends and family – you can fill them as you like. Here we show you how to make an advent calendar yourself. You can use very different materials for the individual doors: Glasses, boxes, milk cartons, chip cans or you can sew the compartments yourself.
Make your own Christmas cards
In order to be able to make Christmas cards yourself, you need blank folded cards. Decorate it with colorful masking tape as a candle and add a flame. These handicraft instructions can also be easily made with children.
A Christmas card with reindeer is less colourful, but just as cute. In addition to the folding cards, you will also need some red paint for the nose and darker pencils for the eyes and antlers for these handicraft instructions.
For this idea you take a cloth tape, preferably in Christmas colors like green or red. You poke two opposing holes from the inside into the front of the folded card. The distance gets smaller and smaller towards the top, then you pull the threads through there. Knot the ends together at the top.
Christmas crafts with children
After autumn crafts, Christmas crafts are now very popular with children. Make sure the ideas are appropriate for the child’s age. Painting pine cones or making stars from wooden sticks is suitable for small children, older children can also paint Christmas balls or cut out Christmas trees. Having fun is of course the most important thing.
And the grandparents will definitely be happy about the homemade things as Christmas presents: the cute snowmen not only make children’s eyes light up. They are made from skewers and crown caps painted white. For smaller children, easier crafting instructions such as the little gnomes made of cardboard, handprints and colored paper are easy to imitate.
Paper crafting
Paper is versatile and you don’t need a lot of experience or special tools to make Christmas crafts with this material. Christmas angels and poinsettias are particularly successful. Have you always wanted to fold a Fröbel star? It’s not as difficult as you might think! Here you can find out how to make a Fröbel star.
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Of course you can also start with a handicraft instruction with a different variant including a template.
A paper fir tree also heralds the Christmas spirit and can be folded with a little patience.
Craft ideas with natural materials
Whether wood, salt dough or cinnamon sticks – all these natural materials can be used wonderfully for Christmas crafts. For example, you can make an atmospheric nativity scene from a few wooden sticks.
wood
Christmas crafts to hang up: In addition to wooden balls, the star only needs floral wire and a leather strap. You can also easily make Christmas trivets this way.
Wooden branches sawn off at an angle can be used as noses in no time at all with a little acrylic paint, cotton wool and beads Crafting Santa Clauses.
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Christmas garland of oranges © makerist
Would you like to hang up a Christmas garland that also exudes an enchanting scent? Then you are exactly right with the Christmas garland made of orange slices and wooden balls. Here are the instructions: Orange decoration
salt dough
Out of salt dough many things can be conjured up. And for the salt dough recipe to make yourself, you only need three ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 cup of salt
- 1 cup of water
Mix the flour with the salt and then add the water. Knead everything into a smooth dough before processing. The consistency is optimal when the mass does not stick to your hands.
By the way: Of course, an Advent wreath should not be missing at Christmas either. You can find out how to make an Advent wreath here. You can also read here how to pour candles or make Christmas balls.
Video tip: Make candles yourself: Here’s how
