Easy Winter Crafts for Kids

Finally, we bring together our favourite easy winter crafts for kids! I have also created a subsection of easy winter crafts for preschoolers (scroll down or click through), if you are looking for craft ideas for younger children. Though some ideas may appear in a number of sections. Of course winter and winter crafting is all about easy snowman crafts and snowflake crafts, but I thought it would be nice to bring all the ideas together in one place!

Easy Winter Crafts for Kids

ALL of the crafts on this post are Winter Crafts for Kids!! This is just the “more general section” – crafts that didn’t really group any of sections below. So please DO browse the whole post for ideas!!!!! Remember that the Winter Crafts for Preschoolers (below), make great GROUP activities – as they are simpler and therefore need less input from grown ups, if working in a larger group of (older) kids.

• Button craft stick snowflakes
• Paper Straw Snowflake Ornaments OR Snowflake Printing
• Upcycled penguin craft (to go with the lovely Lost and Found book)
• TP Roll Snowman Bowling
• Ice Ornaments (these are simply the best and so much fun!)
• Giant Paper Snowflake Ornaments (use white paper bags)
• TP Roll Snowflakes
• Winter Village Luminaries
• DIY Snowglobes (check out our My Little Pony Snowglobes too)
• Snowy Owl Babies
• Snowman Jars – filled with Brownie ingredients
• Organise your desk with these fabulous DIY Penguin Pencil Holders as well as our adorable Snowman Pen Pots!

• DIY Bird Cake Recipes
• Pine Cone Bird Feeders
• Owl Bird Feeder DIY (we have 15 more wonderful Bird Feeder Crafts here)
• Have fun with this DIY Snow Recipe. So **cool**.
• Winter Desk Tidies (choose from penguin, polar bear or snowman!)
• Make Your Own Snowman Snap Game for school fairs or the classroom

Winter Art Projects for Kids

Winter is a great season to explore through art. We love all the cool blues and purples contrasting with whites. There are many things you can draw and explore – not just snowmen (though we do love a cheerful snowman too!).

• Nature Trees – part of the Four Seasons Series: Nature!
• Color Collages – part of the Four Seasons Series: Color!
• Bubble Wrap Trees – part of the Four Seasons Series: Printing!
• Winter Birch Trees Art with Red Cardinal
• Winter Birds
• Winter Trees Tape Resist
• And finally, you have to love the GIANT SNOWGLOBE art project by Make It Your Own!

Winter DIY Ornaments

Admittedly these Winter Ornaments are of course DIY Christmas Ornaments too! However, when Christmas is over and everyone takes their decorations down, I always feel that January and February are so very bleak. I am taken with the idea of having a WINTER Ornaments Tree (see the pictures in the Paper snowman ornaments post!). Just to brighten things up a little. Also many of these ornaments would look great as a garland, whilst others (like the Cork Penguins) are super fun to play with.

• Tea Light Snowman
• Tea Light Penguin
• Cork Penguin ornaments
• Cork Snowman Ornament
• Winter Bears Ornaments
• Puzzle Snowflake Ornaments
• Paper snowman ornament
• These cheerful and bright red Paper Cardinal Ornaments will be a gorgeous edition to any Winter Decorations

Winter Paper Crafts

As you know we are a great fan of paper crafts (and have a fabulous set of Christmas Paper Crafts for Kids to browse). Here is a great sub set of WINTER PAPER CRAFTS, that you can join right through to March. We love paper as it is inexpensive and yet oh so versatile. Make bookmarks, snowflakes and more!

• Simple Science fun with these Winter Thaumatropes Printables
• We have a super duper easy Origami Polar Bear craft – a great intro to origami for kids!
• Easy Origami Penguin they double up as fabulous little Thank You Cards too!
• Winter Animals Envelopes
• Paper snowman ornament
• 3D Paper Snowflakes
• 6 pointed paper snowflakes
• Paper Toys – Winter Kaleidoscopes
• Quilled Snowflake Patterns
• 3d Snowman & Friends
• Yeti Corner Bookmark

Winter bookmarks

• Paperclip Snowman & Mitten Bookmark
• Penguin Bookmark Corner
• Polar Bear Bookmark Corner
• Snowman Bookmark Corner

Some of our crafts  have videos demonstrating how to make them – e.g. check out our Polar Bear Corner Bookmark, isn’t he lovely?!

Winter Card Designs

You may think that the season for card writing and card sending is over. No sorry!! The kids still have a bunch of Thank You cards to write. Or what about sending a card to someone you “forgot” to send a Christmas Card to? New Year can be so bleak and boring, receiving a lovely homemade card can really cheer someone up!! Or what about all those family members and friends with Winter Birthdays? Let’s not forget them. Here are some lovely Winter Card Designs!

• Pop up snowman card
• Cotton wool bud snowman card
• Puffy Paint Snowglobe Cards
• Cork Print Snowman Cards
• Cardinal Bird Water Color Card
• Winter birds
• Fingerprint Penguin Cards
• Origami Envelopes – Penguin, Polar Bear and Owl

Easy Winter Crafts for Preschoolers

Aaaah the preschoolers, our wee little ones that LOVE to craft. Here is a very special Winter Crafts for Kids section dedicated just to the little ones among us. As mentioned before, Preschoolers come with BAGS of enthusiasm, but don’t always have the fine motor skills to go with it. So we need simpler, but still cute and fun projects for our little cherubs. Winter Crafts for Preschoolers are great for finger strength development and fine motor skills, as well as learning about processes and materials. Many of these crafts are also wonderfully tactile, making it a great winter sensory experience. (Depending on the time of year you are reading this, you may also like our Christmas Crafts for Preschoolers!).

• Quick and Easy DIY Snow Recipe (+ play ideas!)
• Snowflake Preschool Craft (Coffee Filter Snowflake)
• Snowy Owl Babies
• Cotton wool pad snowman card
• Penguin Handprint Craft
• Pine Cone Bird Feeders
• TP Roll Snowman Bowling
• Button craft stick snowflakes
• Ice Ornaments
• Winter Tree Resist Art
• Winter Small World Play
• TP Roll Polar Bear
• Snowman Luminaries
• Polar Bear Paper Plate Mask
• Cotton Ball Snowman

I hope you are excited about the Winter months ahead of us and that you will have lots of fun with out Winter Crafts for Kids – especially on those coooold Snow Days, when all you want to do is huddle indoors and look for some easy indoor activities for kids!!!!

Remember we also have a HOLE BUNCH of Easy Snowman Crafts and Snowflake DIYs for you to browse. And if you are brave enough to head outdoors, we have some brrrriiilliant Snow & Ice Activities too!