From making your own paper mache ornaments to decorating pre-made ornaments with glitter or ribbon, Christmas ornaments are a simple craft that can be easily personalized with the school colors, a favorite theme or a classic Christmas motif. Sculpting ornaments from modeling clay or other doughs gives students the opportunity to completely customize each piece to reflect a favorite Christmas story, create a Nativity scene or display a hobby.
Christmas crafts that also decorate the home let kids be a part of holiday traditions as they add a new decorative item each year. Framed Christmas cards, collages of holiday scenes, potpourri or painted flowerpots to hold artificial poinsettias are inexpensive, simple crafts that integrate with existing holiday decor and become a sentimental part of the holiday season.
Help kids surprise moms, dads and other relatives with a homemade and heartfelt item like a coffee mug or faux stained glass. A picture traced onto the glass of a picture frame, then colored in with permanent markers and backed with crumpled aluminum foil, can be personalized easily with a parent's favorite colors or animal as a way to make a gift they can display year-round.
No-bake cookie dough, candy bouquets, decorated sugar cookies and gingerbread houses are edible crafts that entertain kids and teachers alike. A variety of candies, colored frostings, sprinkles and other decorations bring the magic of the holidays to even the simplest round cookies. Have kids bring cereal, pretzels and other grocery items to make snow-covered shingles or a pile of firewood on gingerbread houses. Individual or small group houses can create a gingerbread village.