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Christmas Gift Crafts For Kids

13th December 2018 By Susan Mann 2 Comments

Christmas Gift Crafts for Kids Blog

I think there is something special about a homemade gift. The thought, the effort and the act that has gone into making a gift for someone make it extra special. The kids and I have come up with a few gifts we made that we can give to someone this Christmas for this month’s Tots 100 #BostickBlogger craft. Let me know what you think of them. 

Christmas Gift Crafts For Kids – Book Snowman

Book Snowman Christmas Gift Craft Items

What you’ll need:-

  • Bostik White Glu or Bostike Glu Dots
  • Buttons
  • Craft Knife
  • Pen
  • Book
  • Ribbon

Draw the snowman shape

Step 1

Draw a snowman shape on the book. We did a three-ball snowman.

Start to cut out the snowman shape

Step 2

Start to cut out the snowman shape in the book layer by layer using the craft knife.

Paper

Step 3

Remove the pages so you can keep making the snowman.

Continue to cut book

Step 4

Continue to cut the snowman down.

Keep cutting

Step 5

Keep cutting and remove the excess paper.

Taking Shape

Step 6

It should start to take shape like this.

Remove Cover

Step 7

Keep cutting until the pages are all cut, then remove the cover.

Fan out

Step 8

Fan out the book so it isn’t all clumped together.

Snowman Body

Step 9

Your snowman body will look like this.

Add Scarf

Step 10

Once we have our snowman, we want to add some accessories. First up a scarf.

Tie on scarf

Step 11

Tie the scarf around his neck.

Cut out shapes to stick

Step 12

Cut out shapes to make a hat. Add Bostik Glu dots to hold that hat together and to the snowman.

Add hat

Step 13

The hat should be stuck onto the book.

Add eyes

Step 14

Stick on buttons for the eyes.

Buttons

Step 15

Stick on buttons to the body of the snowman.

Create nose

Step 16

We made a carrot shaped nose for the snowman to stick on.

Stick on nose

Step 17

Stick them all on ready to go.

Snowman Book Christmas Gift Craft

Step 18

Here is our completed Snowman Book Christmas Craft. What do you think?

Christmas Decoration Crafts For Kids – Twine Christmas Tree

Twine Christmas Tree Christmas Gift Craft Items

What you’ll need:-

  • Twine. We used green sparkly twine.
  • Bostik White Glu
  • Decorations
  • Cardboard
  • Cling film
  • Scissors
  • Sellotape

Cut out cone shape

Step 1

Using a piece of cardboard, cut so that it can be rolled into a cone.

Create cone for the tree

Step 2

Make a cone shape and sellotape.

Cover with cling film

Step 3

Cover with cling film.

Ready to wrap

Step 4

Add a few layers so it doesn’t stick.

Get Glue to make the paste

Step 5

Get glue to make a paste.

Mix glue with water

Step 6

Mix the glue with one part water and stir.

Dip in the twine

Step 7

Dip the twine into the glue to get ready to wrap.

Wrap the twine around the cone

Step 8

Wrap the twine around the cling film covered cone. Making it up until it’s a Christmas tree.

Remove Cling film

Step 9

Let it dry for 24 hours and remove the cling film and cardboard cone. Or you can leave it in to be a little more stable.

Twine Tree

Step 10 

We decided to leave ours in and think it looks ok.

Add decorations

Step 11

Use Bostik Glu Dots to add on any decorations you want to add to your twine tree.

Stick on Decorations

Step 12

Stick on whatever decoration you’d like to decorate the tree with.

Twine Christmas Tree Christmas Gift Craft

Step 13

Twine Christmas Tree Christmas Gift Craft. I think this would look great with a battery tea light underneath it too.

Christmas Decoration Crafts For Kids – Scandinavian Gnome 

Scandinavian Gnome Christmas Gift Craft Items

What You’ll Need:- 

  • Bostik Glu Dots
  • Elastic Band
  • White Cardboard
  • Material
  • Felt
  • Rice
  • Stuffing
  • Material or something for a nose

Cut out the body of the gnome

Step 1

We found it held better as a square rather than a circle when cutting out.

Rice

Step 2

Add in some rice to weigh down the gnome.

Stuffing

Step 3

Add some stuffing on top of the rice to pad our your gnome body.

Make the body

Step 4

Gather the body together before you tie.

Tie the body

Step 5 

We used an elastic band to tie and trim off the excess.

Cut out a nose

Step 6

We used some white felt for the nose and added a little bit of stuffing inside.

Stick on the nose

Step 7

Add on the nose using Bostik Glu Dots or a Glue Gun if you want it super secure.

Cut the shape for the hat

Step 8

Get some cardboard to cut out the hat.

Cut out cone shape for hat

Step 9

Cut out the shape to make a cone shape.

Cut a circle for the base

Step 10

Stick it to a cone shape and then cut out the base of the hat.

Stick together

Step 11

Stick together using Bostik Glu Dots.

Wrap in

Step 12

Cover the cone hat with felt.

Add the hat

Step 13

Add the hat to the body of the gnome.

Cut fur fabric

Step 14

Cut some fur fabric to make a beard.

Add the beard

Step 15

Add your beard and there you have a Scandinavian Gnome. I absolutely love these.

Additional Gnome

Step 16

They can be made all differently. They are simple and look cute. We think the Scandinavian Gnomes would make a fantastic gift this Christmas.

Pin for later. 

Christmas Gift Crafts for Kids

What do you think of our Christmas Gift crafts, we’d love to know if you make any of them. Send us photos and tweet us how you get on.

Disclaimer:- We were sent a box of craft materials from Craft Merrily as part of being a Tots100 #BostikBlogger

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Filed Under: Crafts Tagged With: Bostik Bloggers, Christmas, Christmas Crafts, crafting, Crafting with kids, crafts, Crafts for Kids, Fun Things to do with kids, Tots100

Comments

  1. Jax says

    13th December 2018 at 10:07 pm

    I *love* the gnomes. I’m also thinking that a few of the too disastrous to save books donated at the shop might wind up as snowmen…

    Reply
    • Susan Mann says

      14th January 2019 at 3:54 pm

      Thank you. They are my favourite. I do love book folding x

      Reply

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