Getting ready for the holidays?
Winter holidays are the perfect time for connecting with each other – through crafting, baking, reading stories, and preparing presents. We have collected our favourite pastimes of the season here, and we hope that everyone will find something of interest in our selection. We’ve got stories of winter celebrations from around the world for global citizens, shadow puppet shows for those who dream of simpler times, silhouette winter crafts for creating elegant Christmas decor at home, and playdough mats with paper dolls for getting through the last days until winter vacations in style.
Seasons greetings from our family to you and yours!
Christmas Around the World
The closer it gets to the winter vacation, the more challenging it becomes to get any schoolwork done. Cue holiday-inspired (but secretly, quite educational) activities! Children will play board games, dress paper dolls, read and colour pages, while at the same time learning geography, history, and folklore, with the Christmas Around the World bundle.
Christmas Guess Who Game
Print and make this game of festive deducation that features twenty Christmas characters from around the world. Enjoy it as a two-player game, a classroom game, or a party game!
Christmas Paper Dolls
Dress your paper dolls as Christmas characters from around the world. From the famed Santa Claus to the mysterious Olentzero, from the sweet Christkind to the horrifying Krampus—the world is full of interesting and unique traditions associated with the season.
Christmas Colouring Poster
Celebrate the winter holidays with a free poster of Christmas characters and Christmas around the world colouring pages!
Christmas Trivia Game
Gather together with your family or friends and challenge each other to the battle of wits. Enjoy the season and learn together with 24 cards that include 144 questions!
Silhouette Christmas Crafts
Engage in the elegant art of silhouette making, and create a silhouette winter wonderland in your house! Make paper ornaments, shadow puppets, lanterns, cards, tags and toys. Print and make—it’s that easy.
Christmas Window Decorations
Decorate your windows with whimsical silhouettes of a winter wonderland!
Nutcracker Shadow Puppets
Bring the magic of “The Nutcracker” into your home with our Nutcracker Shadow Puppet Set. With printable designs, you can craft your very own Nutcracker puppets.
Christmas Mason Jars
Turn mason jars into a set of Christmas lanterns with silhouettes of magical winter landscapes.
Christmas Paper Village
Cut the printable templates out of paper and build a silhouette Christmas village for your mantle decoration! The joyous busyness of Christmas preparation is seen in every window of this little village.
All Christmas Projects
Bird Cage Paper Lantern Ornament
Make a paper lantern ornament from a printable design! This is a spin-off on my previous lantern ornament project. If you feel confident doing somewhat intricate papercutting, you can do it the same way by cutting the design out. You will find the pattern in the...
Paper Lantern Christmas Ornaments
Add even more glow to your Christmas tree with these elegant paper lantern ornaments that have an LED light inside and can be turned on and off! They come with a printable template to make this craft as easy as possible. Lights sure make a Christmas tree come to life....
Christmas Silhouette Painted Rocks with Printable Designs
Decorate rocks with magical Christmas silhouettes and a snowy sky! Santa Claus in a sleigh, reindeer, a winter forest and children playing in the snow - it's a great selection for a festive rock painting project. Don't feel confident doing freehand drawing? Get...
Cardinal Button Craft for Kids
Add some button Christmas art featuring a cardinal bird to your home décor! So easy to put together that even young children can make this winter craft. Ever since my son was a toddler, we have enjoyed making button crafts together. With the setup we had, the finished...
DIY Space Christmas Ornaments
One of my favourite family traditions for Christmas is making a handmade ornament with the kids to add to our tree. This year's craft is space ornaments with swirling nebulae and twinkling stars! If our handmade ornament is supposed to represent the year, the space...
Nativity Myth Shadow Puppets
Stage a Nativity myth shadow puppet play with kids! When I held a poll among my readers, I asked what shadow puppet set they'd like to see me create, and I got a lot of interesting answers. The one that popped up often was a Nativity scene. While Nativity scenes were...
Winter Art Projects with Printable Prompts for Kids
Need a winter boredom buster or a gift for kids who like making art? Try these printable art activities, which prompt kids to finish them with crayons, paints or play-dough! Making art is fun, and children like to draw and paint. It is important for them, as making...
Christmas Window Silhouettes
Cut our printable templates to make Christmas window silhouettes and turn your windowsills into a winter wonderland! When do you begin preparations for the winter holiday season? My son maintains the opinion that it can never be too early to start, and his enthusiasm...
Bath Bomb Christmas Ornaments with Surprise Inside!
You can throw together these bath bomb Christmas ornaments either as handmade stocking stuffer gifts for kids or together with them as kid-made gifts for teachers, friends and relatives. They're easy and fun! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your...
Mitten: Kid-Made Christmas Ornament
Make a mitten Christmas ornament from buttons and paper, using a free printable template! We made these ornaments together with my son when he was just two - we still have them and put them on each year. We love adding new handmade ornaments onto our tree. It is a...
Christmas Tree Clay Ornaments
I planned to make a set of simple Christmas tree ornaments, but my boy turned them into funny googly-eyed ornaments! The post contains affiliate links for your convenience. Our Christmas tree is up! It is a great motivation for making more Christmas ornaments. This...
Button Christmas Tree Card
Make a Christmas tree with buttons! This button Christmas card is so easy that even a toddler can make one. We have a lot of relatives and friends who live far away, so we like to start working on Christmas cards early to ensure they are delivered in time....
DIY Magical Christmas Lanterns from Mason Jars
If the Christmas season makes you feel like crafting, add these DIY Christmas lanterns to your holiday display. Made from mason jars, these Christmas lanterns are simple but so magical! This post contains Amazon Affiliate links for your convenience. This week, we...
Make a Countdown Calendar with Wooden Blocks
Christmas is still many days away, but if you are an excited kid, it may be time to start counting them! Using old wooden blocks, help children to make a countdown calendar. After the holiday season is over, it can also be used to count days to birthdays and other...
Baby’s First Christmas Craft: the Gingerbread Man Ornament
Involving every member of the family in preparation for the holiday season can be challenging if one of them is a well-meaning but little baby, not yet one-year-old. That's why a year ago I felt particularly happy whenever I could think of a Christmas activity for my...
