A Gingerbread house, reindeer out of candy canes and pipe cleaners and Google eyes paper gains or maybe a yule log?

Check out the arts and crafts section here on MoMs. It is absolutely jam packed with easy, fun activities for al ages and occasions

Get her to do her own wrapping paper… get some Christmas stickers and make some home made bunting… what about handprint and feetprint Christmas paintings… homemade salt dough ornaments – make the ornaments, dry them, then paint them, they maybe use some glitter on them… make a santa stocking…

You can buy some cheap Christmas ornaments with paint sets say at the reject shop,always a great keepsake & fun to paint.

Great! There really interesting comments on this!

Colourful paper chains; hours of fun and they look beautiful!

I used to make those transparent window pictures can’t remember what you call the for the life of me. Just do a nice drawing/color in and then brush with olive oil.

what did you end up doing

there are some good comments here

I would google some ideas to do.

I like the idea of the salt dough shapes.

Some good advice there below.

Use some toilet rolls in the craft my kids love making things out of them.

Pegs, paddle pop sticks and PVA glue are great. you can make anything. you can make bowls out of the sticks and paint them for presents for the family.

Painting in Xmas colours, making Xmas cards…. Hope you had fun!

handmade pot plants, masks, make a doll etc.

what did you decide ego make in the end?

Wow – some great ideas here! Miss 3 and I made salt dough shapes last year, some using her palm print which we painted as ‘santas’ which made lovely personalised gifts and decorations for the tree

There were some different ones in the articles here too: reindeer face paint, finger puppets, clay christmas tree decorations

I hope you ended up having lots of fun