Top Printable Christmas Projects for Kids of all Ages
We have a range of super fun and Educational Printable Christmas Crafts for Preschoolers and Kids that I felt needed to be highlighted again for the holiday season. As we have so many fun Christmas Paper Crafts – many with templates and worksheets – it is easy to for them to “get lost”. So here we are highlighting the top printable Christmas projects to date!

Come and eplore our printable Christmas favorites. Easy Christmas crafts just for you! Unleash your creativity with just a little bit of help from our printables and templates.
Free Christmas Printables for Preschoolers
As mentioned we have LOTS of wonderful Christmas crafts for you to explore – we have a fantastic Christmas Crafts for Preschoolers and toddlers that you simply have to check out. SOmetimes, however, we do appreciate a little time saving Christmas printable though.. and this is where this collection of activities and projects comes in..

Christmas Lacing Card Printable – Christmas Tree Ornament
Free Christmas Lacing Cards these are fabulous for younger kids. This is one our most popular free Christmas Printables on the blog. Lacing cards made to explore shapes and colours this Christmas, whilst developing your toddler’s or preschooler’s fine motor skills and introducting the basic sewing skills concepts! The lacing cards, can be used as part of a Christmas Card, can be used as a Christmas Garland or added to the Christmas tree as ornaments. Such a lovely free printable Christmas project that makes lovely decorations too! The shapes compliment any math shapes lesson plans. Grab your PDF file today.

3d Ornaments exploring shapes
Next step up from the shape lacing cards, are these 3d Christmas Ornaments to print and assemble – an educational resource exploring, circles, squares and triangles to create 3d shapes. FREE resources with our partners Learning Resources!

Nutcracker Coloring Pages as Suncatchers
Talking of shapes… are our special SHAPES Nutcracker coloring pages for Christmas. These come in two sizes – medium and big. The medium nutcracker printables make great bookmarks or greeting cards. The large nutcracker printables, are wonderful as printable Christams suncatchers! A perfect addition to your Christmas crafting!

Pop Up Surprise Cards
Pop Up Christmas Gift Card – this is a fun little interactive Christmas printable that can be used in lost of ways – either as cute printable gift tags to print, color and assemble, as a printable Christmas card to make and send, as a little christmas decoration (e.g. pop them into a plant pot) or as a fun simple Christmas toy. There are three designs to choose from – the elf, the snowman or Rudolph. Alternatively…..

Pop Up Photo Surprise
… glue in a photo of your child and turn it into a Pop Up Surprise Photo Card too! LOVE the photo version. A super fun pritnable to send and surprise someone!

Christmas Science with Balancing Elves
Explore a little bit of Christmas Science with this Balancing Elf paper toy. A great way to show centre of gravity and the Earth’s forces!

SEL Resources – Emotional Snowman
Lovely Christmas coloring pages – SEL Snowman (SEL – Social and Emotional Learning) – Emotions Snowman Printable is a wonderful printable Chirstmas (or Winter activity) to help work through big emotions. This is perfect for some one 1 on 1 time, be it at school or at home. A lovely addition to any feelinsg related Christmas worksheets.

Expandable Christmas Cards to color and send
Expandable cards are always fun to work on and make and a lovely Christmas card to send to family and friends. Children can explore working with crayons, pens or watercolors and practice writing some simple Christmas messages. Be sure to add this to any Christmas printable pack you are putting together for use in the classroom (note: these printables are not for resale and for personal use at hom eor in the classroom only).

Nativity Cone Scene to print and color
A full set of 3d Nativity Coloring Pages – build your own nativity with this wonderful free resource!

Printable Nativity Luminary
Or check out this simpler 3d Nativity Coloring Scene with Tea Lights. So sweet! (UPDATE: no longer free)
More Christmas Printables for Kids
I separted this section out, as I felt that the printables where a tiny bit more involved and therefore maybe a little harder for preschoolers per se to have a go at. But this shouldn’t stop you from working on these projects together! The first couple of projects are still free printables, whilst the final two, do have a small download fee – to help pay for the upkeep of this website! I Hope that that is ok!

Emotions Santa Fidget Toy – SEL resource
Exploring feelings with our Emotions Santa Paper Toy! This make not only a fun way to explore feelings (I do think feelings at Christmas can be VERY overwhelming), but it also makes for a cute fidget toy. This is a free download Santa Claus!

Dancing Paper Elf Puppet – STEAM Christmas resource
One for the whole family to enjoy.. Why not elf yourself with our fantastic free eld puppet. This is an articulated puppet that dances away and makes for great simple STEAM Project exploring the basis of mechanics. You can make this elf puppet with your child’s or student’s face, as shown in this example or use the designed elf face (one of which is free to download, the full set is available on Teachers Pay Teachers – but you only need the one free one to make your photo elf puppet!).

3d Paper Gnomes
Explore the “cone shape” as a simple but quirky and fun maths project this Christmas and maek some adorable paper cone gnomes! Complete with free paper gnome template… These certainly make for colorful Christmas decor, and are a MUST for any Christmas gnome fan. Love love love. These are great for homeschool to explore 3d shapes when doing a math unit. Or maybe even turn them into an advent calendar/ Christmas countdown? Hide a treat under each one! Follow our simple instructions today!

Christmas Paper Doll Dress Up
A classic take on the Christmas coloring pages – the paper dress up doll! I have popped the printable paper doll for Christmas in the “older kids” section, as she is wonderfully detailed. So probably great for kids of school age. She is part of a set of dolls that we are developing for the website, that you can all mix and match.

3d Gingerbread House Printable
Or how about these cute Gingerbread House printables? Grab your scissors and carefully cut out these Gingerbread House shapes. They would make lovely little paper Christmas decorations, or could be used as a gift box, or even as an advent calendar. So fun!
A couple of bonus Printable Christmas Projects
Though these Christmas craft ideas aren’t free to download, I wanted to share the makes with you anyway! As you may be tempted to grab the printables anyway. The great thing about the Christmas Tree pop up card, is that you can make it from scratch, without the need for printables. But printables and worksheets are available for those interested!

Learn how to make a basic pop up card with this simple pop up mechanism. The Christmas tree paper chain pop up make a great cutting skills. Then encourage the children to explore shapes when decorating the card with DIY paper Christmas gift cut outs.

Pop Up Ted Christmas Bear Card with full set of printables. Celebrating our special Christmas Ted! Isn’t he cute? A simple tutorial to follow in order to make this cute pop up card!
I hope you have lots of Christmas family fun with our these free printable Christmas games and crafts. So cute.
If you want to see an extensive list of Printable Christmas Crafts (many more of which are free…), do check out this collection – including our classic 3d Angels – they make lovely tree toppers!

Or check out our complete list of Christmas Crafts for Kids – including fun glitter jar snow globes, paper plate twirlers, reindeer crafts, fun with buttons and salt dough ornaments!

