8 Easy Kids’ Christmas Crafts (No Mess!)

Easy Kids Christmas Crafts are the very best kind of holiday fun when life gets a little busy and/or you have young kids at home! These fun crafts are kid-friendly, festive, and simple to put together.

Once upon a time, I used to try to get my little kids to do really involved projects with me, especially Christmas crafts. I thought that was the Christmas-y thing to do! Then I realized I was doing the project, not them… I might as well do the crafting projects I want for me and find something sweet and simple the littles actually enjoy doing.

That’s exactly what this list of easy Christmas crafts is!

Easy Christmas Crafts With Little To No Mess

Some of these crafts are 100% mess free, and some include small bits of glue or paint in the list below, but these are some seriously simple and easy Christmas crafts, friends! The “messiest” easy Christmas crafts on this list will be minimal when it comes to cleaning up after — no handprint crafts in sight!

While these crafts really are ideal for younger ones, my older children still enjoy them too. Something about Christmas crafts makes everyone excited to participate.. everyone likes feeling like a little kid at Christmas!

Fridge Christmas Tree Craft

This first project is super NOT messy. It’s intended for the younger kids in the home, but older siblings may still enjoy it — or at least enjoy helping! It’s definitely a great project for keeping my littlest busy while the big boys are doing homeschool lessons. The magic ingredient to keeping the mess down in this particularly easy-to-do Christmas craft for kids is the clear contact paper.

 

Snowflake Painting

I know, I know, you read “painting” and almost scrolled past this Christmas craft idea, but this is really more like stamping than painting! And in my experience, much of the paint actually stays on the pipe cleaners! Very little has ended up on hands and you only need one color of washable paint and a couple of pipe cleaners.

 

Coffee Filter Paper Christmas Tree

This is the “messiest” Christmas craft on the list, but I’ve found washable watercolors to be a very forgiving medium. Just make sure you only give them a small cup of water for rinsing, and you’ll have very little mess and a whole lot of fun crafting! This tree is a clever use for those old coffee filters you’ve been trying to find a use for ever since you switched to a Keurig.. or if you’re like us and don’t have coffee filters, they’re insanely cheap to purchase.

 

Printable, Free Christmas Coloring Pages

As far as crafting goes, coloring pages are just about the least messy project out there. There is a great variety of Christmas coloring pages here – from simple to very detailed! So it should be easy peasy to find something that works for every member of your family! These free coloring pages are the PERFECT amount of easy Christmas craft meets actual relaxation. Really want to play it safe? Have your child use crayons or colored pencils so you don’t even have to worry about marker bleeding through!

 

Bead and Pipe Cleaner Candy Canes

This easy Christmas craft is iconic — if you’ve never seen Christmas colored beads strung on a pipe cleaner, I just think you’ve really been missing something! My kids are obsessed to trimming the tree with candy canes and my plan next Christmas is for them to make these bead and pipe cleaner candy canes instead of buying a TON of sugary ones!

 

DIY Paper Bag Luminarias

Another craft with no messy liquids! Hooray for the mom who already mopped! This luminaria Christmas craft is beautiful! I’m thinking I’ll try letting my kids choose what tools to use for making the holes because I love when they are creative thinkers! The finished project will most likely become a cherished one for years to come. Grandparents would probably enjoy receiving a set of these beauties from their grandkids!

 

Paper Straw Christmas Wreath Ornament

I think this easy Christmas craft might just take the cake as the absolute easiest! Make a cute little paper straw Christmas wreath ornament with your kids today and then let them hang it on the tree!

 

Origami Christmas Trees

Older kids will enjoy this no-mess paper folding origami craft! Bonus for mom is that they make a super cute decoration as a centerpiece or even adorning a Christmas village. I want to try finding a way to attach some of these to our Christmas gifts as a tag this year too!

 

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