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December 20, 2013 | 1 Comment

Ornament Buffet – Creative Christmas Crafts

easy christmas ornament craft for kids

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The kids wanted to make ornaments for the tree but now that they are older and doing less art with me, I didn’t want our time together to be spent with a mom-directed activity. I wanted to let the creative juices flow and spend time chatting while we did. When I think about making Christmas crafts, the thing I love the most is the casual chats and camaraderie that I feel while creating next to my kids. This is what being together looks like. These ornaments won’t wow you and I don’t have any big step by step tutorial for you to follow. But hopefully, it inspires you to grab what you have on hand and create and connect with your kids.

Christmas Crafts Ornament Buffet

Gather your materials. In this case that means grab what you have. Ribbons, garland, jar lids, glue, paint, glitter, jingle bells, buttons, really anything sparkly. There is no wrong way to do this. You will want some divided plates to make a fun presentation. I also used paper plates to contain the mess. Each child had three, so if an ornament needed to dry, then I just lifted the plate up and they were ready to make another.

I created a place for each child with the plates, glue and a place mat.

ornament making buffet

They dove right in. ornament making buffet for kids

My son created with garland and my daughter attacked the glitter while I painted some candy canes.

ornament art project buffet

We talked about Christmas when I was a kid (you know in the dark ages), and we speculated about what the elves might be doing right now up in the North Pole. ornament buffet

After the glue dried and it took a while… I added hooks with a hot glue gun. open ended ornament creation

Thanks to these Christmas crafts, now our tree has more ornaments with great memories attached.

Filed Under: Age Preschool, Age: Elementary, Age: Kindergarten, Christmas Ornaments, Open Ended Art, Preschool Crafts | 1 Comment

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  1. Christina Cowan says

    December 20, 2013 at 2:03 am

    I love this idea, so open ended~I’m going to try this at our family Christmas party~!

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