It’s amazing how many ways there are to make a Christmas tree craft. Here are some of my favourite Christmas tree ideas featuring lots of different styles and techniques to try out.
QUICK RESOURCE >> Download your ready-made Nativity Unit here
Easy Christmas tree crafts for kids
What I love about these ideas especially, apart from the fact that they all look beautiful, it that they are all child-friendly, using materials you’re likely to already have at home.
Click on the links below each picture to find out how the trees were made and pick a few to try with your kids!
Above: make a Christmas tree craft with:
sticks :: tissue paper :: paint chips ::melted crayon
Make a Christmas tree craft with a
paper plate :: shapes :: lolly sticks :: playdough :: stickers
Create an upright Christmas tree craft with
cardboard :: paper plate :: buttons and nails :: doilies
Beautiful keepsake Christmas tree crafts using
footprints :: handprints :: hands and jewels
Download your ready-made Nativity Unit
Download the Play Academy’s ready-made Nativity Unit and you’ll have everything you need to lead a set of activities to introduce your children to the Nativity story.
This Unit includes artist-drawn puppets/colour-in nativity scene characters and printable Bible verse cards, that your children can use year after year.
In this Nativity teaching unit your children can:
:: learn about the Nativity and create their own Nativity book or small world scene using colour-in puppet / nativity scene characters
:: learn about Mary and Joseph’s journey, and explore junk modelling
:: learn about the shepherds role, and explore loose parts
:: learn about Jesus’ birth
:: learn about the three wise men, and complete their book / re-tell the story in their small world
Bonus Nativity thematic unit printables
The Play Academy’s thematic units come with practical printables that make the lessons more engaging for your children and easier for you to teach.
No need to go searching for printables to accompany your lessons, they’re all included when you download your chosen unit.
In this Nativity Unit you’ll receive these bonus printables:
:: My Nativity Story book to write, colour and complete to tell the Nativity story
:: a set of artist-drawn My Nativity Puppets to colour, cut out and use to re-cap and act out the Nativity story
:: Nativity Vocabulary Cards to recap and consolidate learning
:: Nativity Bible Verse Cards to read, narrate your own acting out of the story, and perhaps to memorise
How to download this Nativity thematic unit
You can download this unit along with over 50 more from NurtureStore’s Play Academy.
If you are already of the Play Academy, you can download this unit straight away from our Library here.
If you are not yet a member, find out more and choose your first unit here. Your teaching is about to get a whole lot easier!
Great round-up! I love that they are all Christmas trees but none of them look the same!
what a fun collection of ideas! thank you so much for including our driftwood tree and our paint chip tree gift tags!
Love it and thank you for including me 😉
Hi Cathy! Thank you for including our trees. So many lovely ideas. 🙂 Kristi
Thankyou for including us in your great round up! 🙂 I really want to give one of those handprint trees a try this year, what a cute keepsake as well as a decoration.
What lovely ideas! Thank you for sharing them. I especially like the sticks and paint strip ones. Now I have to think which to do with my boys…
What a wonderful collection! I always miss your collections….we are working on trees now and then some!
Actually working on a plate tree….similar to the one above!
What a great collection of tree ideas! Thank you for including our melted crayon trees. We have been on a Christmas tree kick this week and may try some of the other ideas.
I LOVE these ideas! My first time here and this post alone has made me bookmark your blog. 🙂
What a great collection! How did I miss this post before now?
What a fantastic collection,thanks for sharing.xxx
Oh I love this collection of trees for the kiddos! Thnk you for rounding the projects up! This is an instant pin and now I have a new blo to take a gander at.
I love this round-up! What a great bunch of ideas!