By combining subjects and providing opportunities to play and experiment with different materials allows your child to learn and extend their knowledge.

A Jingle Bells Rudolph Reindeer craft with a difference. It bounces and jingle jangles, encouraging playful movement and interaction! h ttps://www.artycraftykids.com/craft/jingle-bells-rudolph-reindeer-craft/ 3D Reindeer Craft We usually wait until the day after Thanksgiving to go out and chose our Christmas tree. But this year is a year like no other. Because we definitely need a bit more joy into our lives, we celebrated Thanksgiving by the Christmas tree. Continue this process, folding the bottom over the top and creasing, until all the paper has been folded up. The boys are definitely very excited and have already started making plans how to catch Santa. Every year they analyze what went wrong the previous year and try to come up with a new and improved plan.

Stuck Santa Puppet Craft

This activity is not only enjoyable but also offers a great opportunity for children to express their creativity and improve their fine motor skills. Children can explore movement and depth with Santa’s 3D bouncy bottom, and play with different textures to create effects with print or splatter snow and fuzzy cotton wool trim. Take the two strips and position them in a 90° angle, like the corner of a picture frame (as shown above), and glue the connecting papers together. To add to the festive spirit, why not engage the little ones in a fun and creative craft project where they can bring this classic Christmas scene to life?

They eagerly wait for Santa Claus to slide down the chimney and bring them their long-awaited gifts. Fold the bottom strip over the topand crease the fold along the edge. This will make the accordion fold nice and tight!Take a flat cotton pad and cut it in half. Then snip a wavy pattern along the curved edge so it looks like snow. Create a Snowy Chimney This adorable Printable Paper Santa Craft adds to a growing collection of 3D Christmas crafts for kids, which so far includes a paper Rudolphand Melting Snowmancraft. Science Extension: For an additional challenge, include a simple machine in the rescue plan. This is a great way to extend the activity for an older child. To create the right sized strip, cut the paper from the shortest side of an A4 piece of paper – or the longest side of a piece of card – and make the strips at least an inch or so wide. Encourage your child to be imaginative with their solution. Remember the emphasis is on the process of creating not the final product.