These paper Christmas crafts are fun and easy to make – and many come with free printables!
Easy paper Christmas crafts for children – with printables!
QUICK RESOURCE >> Download your ready-made Nativity Unit here
This collection of simple Christmas crafts is pretty and festive, and they’re all very easy to make.
They use basic craft materials like paper, card, and paper plates, making them an affordable Christmas craft to make with children in your class, club or community group.
Click the link under each picture to get full instructions of how to make these easy Christmas crafts.
Many come with free printables to make it even easier for you to have a fun Christmas craft session with your kids.
Paper Christmas tree craft with printable
Paper Christmas bauble printable
Paper house lanterns with free printable
Paper roll Father Christmas
Paper roll angel
Stained glass Christmas tree colouring in page with free printable
Paper Christmas tree craft
Printed Christmas wreath
Simple Christmas cards
Paper plate angel craft
3D paper Christmas bauble craft with free printable
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!
Amazing ideas for christmas activities. Thank you for sharing. My teachers used these ideas with a lot of appreciation. Children lived the activities. Rosmina
Wonderful, Rosmina. I’m so happy you all enjoyed using them. Happy Christmas!