Happy Christmas, y’all! One thing we LOVE to do each season is switch up our craft trays! These trays are our go-to activities for afternoons, weekends, rainy days, and especially times when this Momma needs to get a little extra work in. I hope these ideas for Christmas crafts and fine motor activities are super helpful for you, too!
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Christmas Arts and Crafts Tray
Arts and crafts trays are a BLAST to set up and enjoy! For these trays, I don’t even purchase anything new if I don’t have to. The best part of this tray is that it simply showcases our current craft supplies, but in Christmas colors! It’s a easy way to take overlooked craft supplies and turn them into something “brand new” without any extra spending!
Some of our favorite craft supplies for our craft tray are glitter pens, KwikStix, glitter paint tubes, washable paints, stickers, crayons, markers, colored pencils, and MORE! Just dig through your craft supplies and see what you can bring to life again!
Christmas Crafts and Fine Motor Pages
If you’re looking for NO PREP Christmas crafts, these craft and fine motor worksheets are going to be your very best friends! This packet includes 25 NO PREP worksheets for you to print and use all season long. Children will practice important skills like tracing, tearing, gluing, cutting, coloring, and SO much more. And all with no extra work on your part!
Christmas Sensory Bins
At The Stay-at-Home Teacher, we make a sensory bin for EVERY theme! So of course we have to bust out tons of sensory bins for Christmas fine motor fun! We use them during our school time, as extra fine motor fun, and definitely during our dramatic play time! You can read about some of our very favorite Christmas sensory bins using the button below!
Christmas Tree Play Dough Tray
So, it took me a while to come around to homemade play dough. Purchasing play dough in all sorts of colors is so convenient, and we honestly still buy plenty. But Y’ALL. Nothing beats the satisfaction of soft, homemade play dough. And this recipe from Mother Could is the absolute BEST and simplest one I’ve tried! Now I absolutely love making homemade play dough for our play dough trays, and LG will spend HOURS playing with it!
For this Christmas tree play dough tray, I used the play dough recipe found using the button below. Then to the tray I added holly, Christmas cookie cutters, pretend Christmas lights, and these precious little Christmas gifts.
Gingerbread Play Dough Tray
Could a post about Christmas fine motor fun possibly be complete without GINGERBREAD activities?! I think not!! Adding a gingerbread play dough tray is such a fun way to extend the Christmas festivities beyond the actual holiday, or even a great place to start the season!
To make this tray, I used the same tray from our Christmas tree play dough tray. Then I made our gingerbread dough using the same recipe from Mother Could, and filled the tray with items we could use for decorating “gingerbread cookies”! Adding little buttons, clippings of ribbons, cookie cutters, and MORE gives us HOURS of engaged play time!
Christmas Bucket List
Looking for other ways to get creative this Christmas? You’ll want to make sure you grab this FREE Christmas bucket list! This resource has tons of ways you can put all our Christmas crafts and fine motor activities into action! Just click below to sign up and I’ll send it right to your inbox!
Let’s hang out!
Well, friends… Are you in the Christmas spirit yet?? I hope all of these ideas for Christmas crafts and fine motor activities help your family enjoy all sorts of Christmas fun! I’d love to chat and get to know you better! Come hang out with us in some of our favorite places!
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