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Paper Plate Christmas Crafts

December 6, 2013 by Sarah 22 Comments

Christmas is a busy time of year!  The last thing a Mama needs is to be on the search for fancy craft supplies to make sweet Christmas crafts with wee ones. After Sammy’s fascination with our latest paper plate craft, I decided to search for some fun paper plate Christmas crafts. I found so many!

Just before we dive in, I also have a FREE Holiday Crafting Guide that I think you’ll love. It’s full of simple, construction paper crafts to enjoy with your little ones this holiday season—and Halloween and Valentine’s Day too! Get yours right here:

Easy and cute paper plate Christmas crafts for preschoolers! #easy #crafts #preschoolers #Christmas #paperplates

If you are anything like our family, you likely have a paper plate or two kicking around—just aching to be used this holiday season! Here are 15 Christmas crafts that start with a simple paper plate:

1. This is our own simple Paper Plate Christmas Tree Ornament made from a paper plate. It really couldn’t get much simpler —which is absolutely perfect, if you ask me!

paper plate Christmas crafts

2. These Santa Claus Paper Plate Christmas Crafts are adorable! You can find them at Mother Bear—they would also make sweet masks for imaginative play. Love the cotton ball beards!

Paper plate Christmas crafts Santa

3. This Shredded Paper Snowman makes for a great sensory play activity too! Housing a Forest gives a great tutorial for how to make these Christmas cuties!

Paper plate Christmas crafts snowman

4. My Sammy has been loving gingerbread men and any gingerbread story he can get his hands on! These adorable Gingerbread Men made by Preschool 101 from paper plates would be a great extension for our stories.

Paper plate Christmas crafts gingerbread man


5. Here is another Santa Paper Plate Craft by No Time for Flashcards. This one would be wonderful for counting the cotton balls on Santa’s beard. I wonder if you could even number them and use this as an advent calendar countdown to Christmas?

Paper plate Christmas crafts for kids

6. I love reindeer! And combine that love with my adoration of paper plate crafts, and you will see why I just love these Paper Plate Reindeer from Education.com! And adding hand prints for antlers make this a great gift for kids to make too.

Paper plate Christmas crafts reindeer

7.  My Very Educated Mother (which is my new favourite blog title!) made these cute Peppermint Paper Plate Christmas Crafts! I think they would be adorable filled with real peppermints as a little homemade Christmas gift.

Paper plate Christmas crafts for preschoolers

8. This Paper Plate Christmas Wreath by JDaniels Mom would be great for wee ones who have trouble with scissors—or simply to make for a very independent activity for preschoolers. Ripped art is tons of fun too!

Paper plate Christmas crafts ripped art

9. If you have spent much time with us on How Wee Learn, you likely know we love imaginative play! These Paper Plate Christmas Masks by Learning 4 Kids are such fun! Reindeer, Santa, Elves… oh the imaginative play!

Paper plate Christmas crafts masks

10. This beautiful Paper Angel is made quite simply with just one paper plate! Nurture Store has a great, simple tutorial so your wee ones can make one for your tree!

Paper plate Christmas crafts angel

11. These Tissue Paper Christmas Wreaths would be a great sensory experience for wee ones. And they would be great for all ages too! Kids love crafting with tissue paper. Even big kids would likely enjoy this activity by Teach Preschool—I think my 11-year-old would. We shall see!

Paper plate Christmas crafts wreath

 

12. I think these Waterless Snowglobes make great paper plate Christmas crafts. Such creativity from Glittering Muffins! And they would make for a great sensory ‘bag’ for babes too. (link no longer available)

Paper plate Christmas crafts snowglobe

13. These Paper Plate Reindeer by The Kids Place are beyond adorable. I think next year I will use these as our advent calendar— hope my wee ones REALLY enjoy making them because I will be requesting 25.

Paper plate Christmas crafts rudolph

14. I Heart Crafty Things is full of crafting goodness! These Paper Plate Christmas Trees are so bright and cheerful—a great way to brighten a grey winter day. Love the beaded garland—these beads would also work well.

Paper plate Christmas crafts trees

15. Why not put the kids to work to make a beautiful centrepiece for your Christmas table?  These creative Paper Plate Christmas Trees by Makely might be the center of our table this year!

Paper plate Christmas crafts

And maybe just one more, since I cannot possibly pass up a paper plate craft for Christmas that gets little ones outside! Be sure to check out these Paper Plate Lanterns by Red Ted Art!

Paper Plate Crafts - Lantern for kids

I just love a good paper plate craft, and these Christmas themed crafts are adorable! All from one paper plate! #christmas #holidaycrafts #christmascrafts #christmasart #paperplate #preschool #toddler

I am really trying to keep things simple right now. And my kids are enjoying the activities so much more because they are able to do them almost completely on their own. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that it is the process of a craft that is the most important thing for wee ones (at least it can be hard for me!), but seeing the enjoyment and learning that comes from simple crafts makes it very worthwhile.

These paper plate Christmas crafts are perfect ways to keep things simple this holiday season!

xo
Sarah

P.S. Don’t forget to grab your FREE Holiday Crafting Guide with more simple craft ideas, but this time using construction paper!

The one thing you can do for Kindergarten readiness - SO EASY!!!! Love that it is written by a Kindergarten Teacher. #kindergartenready #preachool #kindergartenactivities

Looking for Even MORE Paper Plate Christmas Crafts?  Be sure to check out this post on 75 Simple Paper Plate Crafts for every occasion – there are some cute ones in there!

75 paper plate crafts for kids

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Comments

  1. Valerie @Glittering Muffins says

    December 6, 2013 at 8:44 am

    Great round up! Thanks for including us 🙂

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      December 6, 2013 at 12:56 pm

      Love those waterless snowglobes Valerie!

      Reply
  2. Malia {Playdough to Plato} says

    December 7, 2013 at 6:49 pm

    Who would have thought that there were so many different ways to use a simple paper plate?! So impressed by this creative roundup. Pinning.

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      January 6, 2014 at 9:17 pm

      Thank you so much Malia! And thanks for sharing the love with your pin!

      Reply
  3. Alexandra Gatt says

    December 8, 2013 at 2:37 am

    Really awesome crafts! I work with 3year olds and I love these great ideas. Please keep sharing more 🙂

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      January 6, 2014 at 9:16 pm

      SO glad you like them Alexandra!! Thank you very much for the encouragement and taking the time to comment – so kind! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Rachel @I Heart Crafty Things says

    December 12, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    I am so in love with this round up! Paper plates are one of my favorite crafting materials and these crafts are sooo cute!! Thank you so much for including my Christmas Tree Craft! 🙂

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      December 13, 2013 at 2:07 pm

      So happy you like it Rachel – it was a fun one to do! I love your cute paper plate Christmas trees!

      Reply
  5. Amanda says

    December 13, 2013 at 1:28 pm

    Thanks for joining in our Playful Preschool FB Shareday! We’ve included a link to this delightful activites on this week’s Reindeer Learning Post! http://bit.ly/1fqQ4qn

    Reply
  6. Ashlee says

    October 27, 2014 at 1:00 am

    Hi Sarah, I just saw that you linked one of my Christmas crafts here. I’m so excited to see that! I’m glad you liked it. I love the collection of great crafts you have here. Keep up the great work!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      October 27, 2014 at 12:45 pm

      Love your craft Ashlee – and thank you!!

      Reply
  7. Mackenzie says

    November 17, 2014 at 3:50 pm

    Wow – this is awesome too! Pinned, and I’m already thinking of making those Christmas trees tomorrow 🙂 Thanks for sharing.

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      November 20, 2014 at 1:56 pm

      I love those trees too – thank you for taking the time to comment!

      Reply
  8. Susen @ Dabbling Momma says

    November 21, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    These are great! And you’re right perfect craft when crunched for time!

    Reply
  9. Ana Diaz says

    December 10, 2014 at 8:19 am

    Muy lindas las ideas.

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      December 15, 2014 at 10:04 pm

      Thank you! (I think and hope?) And thanks for taking the time to comment Ana!

      Reply
  10. Annette says

    December 14, 2014 at 10:05 am

    love it

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      December 15, 2014 at 10:00 pm

      Very glad you do Annette – thank you for visiting, and taking the time to comment!

      Reply
  11. tina says

    November 13, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    Very interest site thank you.

    Reply
  12. Kristen says

    December 23, 2016 at 9:16 am

    Thank you for the links to these cute crafts! I will be provided your post on my own reindeer craft blog to share with others. I appreciate your gathering ideas for all of us parents and educators.

    Reply
  13. Jazzdancer says

    November 15, 2021 at 8:36 am

    Love these ideas, but in this day and age when we are trying to reduce the amount of garbage we produce I would skip the paper plates (which we don’t ever use) and instead cut out circles from cardboard boxes i.e. cereal boxes, Amazon boxes etc. Yes it is extra work for me but my grandchildren are worth it.

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      November 27, 2021 at 10:44 am

      Love this idea! Thank you for sharing and for caring about this world of ours!

      Reply

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