Colourful, simple Christmas wreath craft for kids

The children had so much fun making this painted Christmas wreath. I like the mix of the traditional decoration with the vibrant colours the kids chose. Here’s how they made it.

 

 

How to make a Christmas wreath

  QUICK RESOURCE >> Download your ready-made Nativity Unit here  

 

We started by printing lots and lots of circles on to pieces of card.

We used our set of stacking cups to print with, which were really easy for the children to hold and gave us a variety of sizes.

We used washable paint so we could clean up the cups afterwards.  

 

 

Once we’d finished the stamping fun and everything had dried we used the same cups to draw lots of circles on the painted card and cut them out.  

 

 

We used a paper plate as the frame for the wreath, with the centre removed.  

 

 

 

You know my kids have an issue with waiting for glue to dry, so we stapled all the circles in place around the paper plate ring.  

 

 

We added some shiny ribbon for extra pizzazz and ta-da, our painted Christmas wreath is ready.  

 

   

 

 

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!