How To Make Christmas Crafts: 16 Easy, Cute Ideas Anyone Can Try

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Have you been thinking about the type of crafts to make for this year’s holiday?

Christmas crafts automatically mean having fun creating something nice, stylish, beautiful, and so on. 

Crafting is a popular part of celebrating Christmas each year, and it can be done as a full family activity.

It's a nice way to have some down and fun time with your kids and loved ones.

It also helps you relax from the stress of cooking, decorating, and doing other preparations, and of course, some of them can serve as decorations and even gifts.

Fun and simpler crafts are one of the best ways to keep your kids busy, as you get involved in more serious activities during the holiday. 

So if you are really wondering about the kind of crafts to go for this year, then you’ve come to the right place.

Below you’ll find our list of some of the best crafts for you to recreate this coming Christmas.

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Easy Christmas Craft Ideas You Can Make Today


Pine Cone Owl Craft

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Easy Christmas craft that looks so good, you won’t believe how easy it is to create. This craft features a pine cone as the body of the owl, with buttons for eyes, an artificial beak, feet, and a red Santa hat. They are cute and make for beautiful decorations.


DIY Christmas Ornaments Craft

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Crafting ornaments can be very creative, as they would serve as cool decorations and also as gifts for friends and loved ones. It features felt hearts in green, brown, beige, and white, and also a little fabric Christmas tree.


Wooden Star Ornament Craft

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If you want to have your crafts last long, even longer than the festive period itself, then ornament craft is a great choice. This one features star ornaments made out of wood, topped with evergreen foliage and a pine cone. Hang them on display and let everyone see how beautiful they look.


Nativity Scene Craft

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A craft that’s a remake of the nativity scene, which normally depicts the birth of Jesus. It features crafts of baby Jesus in the middle, his mother Mary, the Virgin, and Joseph, his earthly father. It also features parts of the stable where Jesus was born.


Christmas Pom-pom Wreath Craft

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This pom-pom wreath comes in a make-your-own craft kit. When you purchase the kit, it comes with everything you need to make it. It features a pom-pom maker, yarn, and a wire wreath frame, which makes the crafting that much easier. This one has red and burgundy, green and white, and green and red pom-pom wreaths.


Snowman Ornament Craft

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A classic choice for a handmade Christmas craft. This craft is a snowman ornament made from small wooden slices, a snowman painted face, and three black buttons on the body of the snowman. Little knitted hats and scarves decorate the snowmen.


Pine Cone Bear Craft

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Now this is what you call creative, a nice, cute craft made from a pine cone. It is the body of the bear being made from a large pine cone, while the head and ears are made from smaller pine cones and are glued together. A red ribbon is tied at the neck, which adds style to the craft.


Reindeer Snowman Angel & Santa Pine Cone Craft

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More creative pine cone craft. It is a pine cone reindeer with felt ears, red nose, and twigs for antlers, a snowman painted white with carrot nose, dotted smile, black hat, and orange hat, an angel with painted head, tinsel halo, and golden wings, and lastly Santa with painted head, white beard, and red hat.


Paper Reindeer Craft

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Here’s a simple DIY craft for the holiday. It features four reindeer crafts made from recycled toilet paper rolls. The toilet paper makes the body of the reindeer, with googly eyes, and a red pom-pom nose, twine tied around the middle, and antlers made from twigs. They arrived all designed to look like Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.


Christmas Stocking Wreath Craft

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This is not the typical type of festive crafts everyone is used to. It is a stock-shaped bag decorated with rose-gold and silver ornaments, a pine cone, and greenery. Red flower, red berries, flocked leaves, greenery, and a bow are crafted to look like they are popping out of the stock bag.


Nutcracker Soldier Figurine Craft

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This is just something else, a craft that’s on a different level. These four nutcracker soldier figurines need a lot of patience and time to properly create. They are carved from wood, and then painted to properly decorate them; one is gold, another green, one pink, and the last one red, all having different designs.


Santa Claus Pillow Craft

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For crochet lovers, this is a very cool Christmas-themed craft that features a crocheted Santa pillow. The pillow features Santa’s face, white beard, and a red Santa hat with a fluffy white pom-pom.


Nutcracker Popsicle Stick Man Craft

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Ornament made from popsicle sticks. This nutcracker popsicle man ornament is crafted with many popsicle sticks put together to make the head, hands, body, and legs. It is then painted, and white wool is used on the head for the hair and beard.


Picture Frame Ornament Craft

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A craft that uses different pieces to create a beautiful decoration that can be used anywhere in the house during the festive period. It features a red picture frame with a green stylish bow at the top of the frame, while green, red, and silver snowflake-themed ball ornaments hang inside the frame.


Popsicle Sticks & Painted Pebbles House Craft

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The house is made from popsicle sticks that are painted gray and dusted with white for a snow like effect, the roof has a small wreath and small red heart. Then three pebbles are painted to look like owls wearing Santa hats, and they sit on a small branch at the bottom of the house, “Be Happy" is stylishly written at one small corner of the roof.


Cardboard Gingerbread Men Craft

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Making a gingerbread man doesn’t have to be done with actual gingerbread, especially when the goal is to use it for decorating only, not as snacks to be eaten. They are cut out from cardboard, styled with red and green ribbon at the neck, decorated with black dots for eyes, a smiling mouth, and three black dots for buttons on the body.

Read also: 20 Christmas Gingerbread House Ideas That Look Magical And Easy To Make

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Conclusion 

When the festive period, like Christmas, we can forget how to relax and engage in activities that would give us a fun experience. 

This is where Christmas crafts come in.

Check out: 16 Fun Christmas Wine Cork Crafts Ideas You Can DIY

With the right type of ideas, you can create beautiful crafts that would be perfect for decoration and gifting.

We have provided you with 16 beautiful and fun Christmas craft ideas that your loved ones and kids can all admire and love, whether as an activity for all or just for you. 

So what are you waiting for? Start crafting today!