Exploring Shapes with 3d Ornament Printables

As a new Season is heading our way again, we love to do a bit of planning ahead. Why not check out this lovely free Christmas Paper Craft project. A set of educational 3d Ornaments exploring shapes (and colours). Did I say Christmas? Though designed for Christmas, you can actually use this fabulous 3d printable all year round. I personally think they would make great little 3d shapes to create for Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day too! A fantastic free EVERGREEN STEAM printable project to make. But, back to Christmas…

Geometric Shapes turned 3D Ornaments

Disclaimer: Today’s free Christmas printable is brought to you in collaboration with Learning Resources, a website dedicated to educational but FUN ideas for kids. We have a host of fantastic Freebies, that we have worked on together in the past, and that I am sure you would love to check out too!

This is a beautiful Geometric Shape Ornament Colouring Page to cut and assemble. A great opportunity to discuss basic shapes (circle, square and triangle), basic colours (and seasonal colours). But also practice fine motor skills and scissor handling skills. A wonderful addition to our STEAM paper crafts!

Educational elements to this cute evergreen Printable

We love this ‘3D Ornament created out of geometric Shapes’ Paper Craft Project for a number of reasons:

• You get to spend quality time colouring and crafting with your kids
• You can introduce and explore basic shapes with your kids: circles, triangles and squares
• You can introduce the concept of 3D shapes
• You get to explore primary and secondary colours and how they can be used to express different seasons
• They are fabulous for fine motor skills (e.g. colouring, cutting out the shapes)
• They make wonderful keepsakes and decorations for home and classroom
• They make a wonderful gift for care takers, friends and family

Supplies needed for the Geometric Shapes – 3D Ornament Paper Craft Project:

• Our free 3D Ornament printable with our sponsors,
• Paper,
• Colouring pens, and/or markers,
• Scissors
• Glue
• Yarn

Hop on over to our sponsors at Learning Resources and download your FREE 3D Ornament Paper Craft printable.

How to make 3d Ornaments for Christmas

We have two techniques to show you how to make these wonderful 3d Paper Ornaments. First the triangle ornament – perfect as a little 3d Christmas Tree Ornament Printable and second the 3d Circle and Square Baubles! Both techniques are super easy and fun to make! As mentioned, the Circle and Square ornaments are especially lovely and suitable for Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day too. You could even included them inside a greeting card!

How to make your ‘Triangle Shapes’ Ornament:

Download the printable! Start by colouring in the ornament.

Then cut out the template and fold. Start by making a valley fold then mountain style and repeat until finished – like an accordion.

It is time to glue shut the ornament. Have the backside of the template face you and add glue to one side of the mountain folds and glue shut. Before adding glue the very last side we will add yarn to be able to hang up the ornament later. Add glue again with yarn attached and glue shut the ornament completely.

And done! Your 3D triangle ornament will look like this!

How to make your 3d Ornament – Circles & Squares:

Lets make the 3D Circle Ornament. The square ornament is made the same way.

Colour in your template. Then cut out the four circle shapes and fold them in half where indicated.

To assemble the ornament we add glue to 1/2 of a circle and glue this half circle on top of another 1/2 circle. Before glueing shut the whole ornament we add string. Place it in the center of the ornament, add glue again to the remaining 1/2 of a circle and then press shut the two last half circles.

And that’s it. You made yourself your own beautiful 3D ornament out of 4 circles! What would it look like with 6 or 8 circle shapes?

Try your skills now on the 3D ornament made out of squares (the process is the same)!

Happy Colouring and crafting!

Thank you again for the collaboration with Learning Resources! You will need to pop over to grab your free printable!! Enjoy!

Here are more fantastic projects we have created with Learning Resources for Christmas – with of course Free Christmas Printables:

First up – the “Surprise Pop Up Gifts” and the STEAM Balancing Elf Toy

And next we have some adorable exploring shapes Lacing Cards (great as 2d Paper Ornaments too) and our Emotions Snowman to help figure out all those tricky feelings with this great SEL resource!

Happy Making!