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Holiday is a good time to do crafts with kids

Making crafts during the Holiday Seasons and festivals like New Year, Christmas, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day etc is a good way of teaching kids about these festivities and cultures. It also creates an absolutely festive feel for the kids and make them look forward to the celebrations with eagerness and anticipation.

It is a way of preserving culture. I hope you enjoy the crafts below. Some were done by me and my kids over the last few years when they were still preschoolers. They are fun and easy for young children. Others, are from our recommended favorite sites for Holiday Crafts for Children.

Teach kids about holidays and cultures using crafts

Whether it is Christmas, Chinese New Year, the muslim Ramadan and Hari Raya or the Diwali or Festival of Lights celebrated by the Indians, crafting is a great way to teach kids about the different cultures of the world.

New! Chinese New Year Crafts for kids

Here are some really quick and easy Chinese New Year Crafts to do with kids

Here are some easy Chinese New Year Craft kids can do at home. It is fun and easy for kids to follow. I love YouTube. You can learn many holiday crafts by watching the videos and making the crafts as you watch.

This year 2012, enters the Year of The Dragon. There are many Dragon crafts that kids can make and do. In addition, children can also make Fish Craft for the Chinese New Year as fish is evergreen and considered Good Luck for the Chinese.
Preschool Art - Chinese New Year Big Dragon
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Chinese New Year Crafts for Kids

Time to get some Chinese New Year Craft Ideas!

With Chinese New Year around the corner, it is time to get some Chinese New Year Craft Ideas for kids. Here are some.
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New! Valentine's Day Craft Ideas For Kids

Here are some of my favorite resources for Valentine's Day Crafts for kids

Valentine's Day is the perfect time for making crafts! Here are some of my favorite sites with fun Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids which offer a variety of Valentine's Paper Crafts, Valentine's Heart Crafts, Homemade Valentine's Day cards and other crafts kids can make.
Kids' Valentine's Day Crafts - Kaboose.com
Plenty of Valentine's Day Craft Ideas here for kids, all nicely laid out in thumbnail pictures so it's easier to select the most creative fun craft for your child
DLTK's Valentine's Day Activities for Kids
Free printable templates and instructions for Saint Valentine's Day crafts plus coloring pages, a brief history and recipes. Suitable for children -- toddlers thru grade school.
Free Valentine's Day Crafts Projects at AllCrafts.net
AllCrafts.net - Free Crafts Network Free Crafts projects! Your guide for all types of crafts. Holiday crafts, Kids crafts, crochet, sewing, knitting, dolls, rubber stamps and much more! 20+ craft categories. New free projects added weekly!
Valentine Gift Ideas - Homemade Valentine Gift Crafts for Kids | FamilyFun
Find simple Valentine's Day gift crafts for kids this holiday! So many fun, cute Valentine Ideas for all the family on FamilyFun.
Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids, valentine crafts for kids
Valentine's Day Crafts to enjoy with your kids, including bookmarks, a Valentine card holder, valentine lollipops and lots of other fun ideas!
Valentine's Day: Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids - Martha Stewart
Thousands of Martha Stewart and other holiday clip-art, decorating, crafts, hand-made gifts and project ideas.
Valentine's Day Crafts for Kids
Valentine's Day crafts for kids. The Valentine's Day crafts are a fun and creative way for your child to spend a cold February afternoon and most are made with craft materials from around the house.

Craft Supplies for Valentine's Day and other Kids Art Projects

More Valentine's Day Craft Ideas

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Fireworks Glitter Art

Fireworks Glitter ArtThis Fireworks Glitter Art was done with glue and glitters. Remember to use black or dark construction paper for the best effect. This is a great craft idea for festivals or celebration. It would be the perfect Happy New Year Craft. Check the link below for how we did ours.

Fireworks Glitter Art

Diwali Crafts for Kids

from Activity Village

Kids Rangoli Craft from Activity VillageActivity Village has a nice selection of Diwali Crafts for Kids.

Diwali is a great time for crafting. It is the festival of lights. So you can do many crafts with candles, lights and flowers. Children can also make a Simple Rangoli Craft for Kids. Rangoli is a decoration in front of the house usually made of colored rice grains.

How to make paper snowflakes

Paper SnowflakesThis craft is related to our Christmas Tree and Snowflakes Scene Picture Craft above. We pasted the completed snowflakes onto our picture. In fact, you can use these paper snowflakes cutouts for just about any other pictures you can think of. You can even make a few colored ones and string them together to make a hanging snowflakes mobile. Anything is possible with a little imagination and creativity.

The link below is a step by step picture guide on how to make a paper snowflake.

How to make paper snowflakes

Christmas Scene Craft

Christmas Scene CraftA must try craft for the Christmas holidays, this Christmas tree craft uses snowflake cutouts. Don't worry, I will show you how to make the paper snowflakes in my step-by-step picture guide. Check out my next module on How to Make Paper Snowflakes.

Christmas Tree and Snowflakes Scene"

Christmas Crafts

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3-D Christmas Tree Craft

3-D Christmas TreeThis 3 dimensional Christmas tree craft is not difficult to cut out and assemble. The fun part is putting up the decorations. As usual, we used our recycled ribbons from gifts and hampers we received. We also used stickers and glitter pens.

How to make a 3-D Christmas Tree

Pop-Up Christmas Tree Craft

Pop-Up Christmas Tree CardThere are different versions to this Pop-Up Christmas Tree Card. Version One of the Pop-up Christmas Tree requires an origami or a Christmas tree made out of paper folding. You then stick that origami tree on the card. Version two, simply requires you to do some cutting on paper. Both are equally beautiful and suitable as a fun craft for young kids.

1. How to make a pop-up origami Christmas tree
2. Pop-up Christmas Tree Card using Robert Sabuda Method

Holidays are a Good Time For Crafting

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Santa's Reindeer Craft

santa's reindeerAnother holiday or Christmas craft, this one features Santa's reindeers. The reindeer's ears are made out of from paper cutouts of the children's handprints. Again, we featured the paper snowflakes in this Christmas Craft.

We got our Reindeer Art idea from Allfreecrafts.com Then we added some snow flakes from paper cuts in them.

Chinese New Year Angpow Fish Craft

Chinese New Year angpow decorationsThe Chinese like to give out Angpows (red packets filled with money) during festivities especially Chinese New Year. They like the color red because it symbolizes good luck and fish because the word fish sounds like the word prosperity. So, many Chinese like to decorate their homes with fish made from angpow papers plus lanterns and other decorations all made out of angpow paper. We always enjoy making our own homemade decorations made from angpow paper although there are many readymade ones being sold.

Chinese New Year Angpow Crafts

Chinese New Year Crafts for Children

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Paper Lantern Craft for Mooncake Festival

Paper LanternsThis paper lantern craft for kids is suitable for mooncake festival, lantern festival or Mid Autumn Festival as well as Chinese New Year. It is great for teaching kids about these festivals. Typically Chinese children will carry lanterns and go around their neighbourhood while their elders will sip tea and enjoy mooncake under the moonlit night on mooncake festival.

However, these paper lanterns are so pretty, you can make them at any other time just for fun. I have a step-by-step picture guide on how to make these paper lantern craft. Just click the link below.

How to Make Paper Lanterns

Ramadan Craft

Kiddyhouse.comBulan Ramadan or the Ramadan month is the 9th month of the Islamic Calander. Muslims will fast during this month. You can read more about Ramadan at Wikipedia.

Kiddyhouse.com has some interesting Ramadan Crafts for kids. Here kids can learn how to make a Hari Raya Card Craft, Ramadan Lamp Craft, a Ramadan Mobile Sun Catcher and more.

The Hari Raya Card Craft is in the form of a ketupat or Malay Rice Dumpling. Very interesting.

Check out Parenting Times blog for more Hari Raya Crafts for Kids. You will find more links for children Hari Raya Art and Craft including how to Make a Hari Raya Card, Hari Raya Lamp Craft and other kids craft ideas for Hari Raya. Check it out for links to Ramadan Activities, Coloring pages, Stories and Ramadan Songs for kids.

Guestbook Comments

  • alwaysjules Feb 18, 2012 @ 1:23 pm | delete
    Lots of great ideas. I think my kids enjoyed making snowflakes more than anything else. Congratulations on making the Top 40 Valentine Craft Ideas. Well Deserved.
  • JoyfulReviewer Feb 11, 2012 @ 8:33 pm | delete
    Thanks for the wide variety of kids' craft ideas for various holidays.
  • JaguarJulie Feb 2, 2012 @ 9:50 am | delete
    I love that you have Holiday crafts for children that can be used for that specific holiday, or for other times of the year. One can never be too crafty!
  • kathysart Jan 20, 2012 @ 11:08 am | delete
    Darling ideas and cool lens for moms and grannies. Fun things for kids to do. Angel blessed.
  • damoiselle Jan 7, 2012 @ 11:05 pm | delete
    Man, I used to love making those lanterns when I was little.
  • shwetasoni05 Nov 17, 2011 @ 1:23 am | delete
    I liked the paper lantern craft..kids will surely love it:)
  • lilymom24 Nov 12, 2011 @ 1:11 pm | delete
    The 3D Christmas trees are really cute. =)
  • ajgodinho Oct 28, 2011 @ 10:36 am | delete
    I like the variety of kids' craft ideas for various occasions here. Kids really enjoy this, I know I did. Blessings! :)
  • darciefrench Sep 9, 2011 @ 1:02 am | delete
    I love the multicultural diversity of the holiday crafts you have chosen for children - refreshing to see beyond the typical Christmas craft suggestions :)
  • mumsgather Sep 9, 2011 @ 5:39 am | delete
    It helps to keep the lens fresh for all seasons. :)
  • vallain Jul 20, 2011 @ 8:20 pm | delete
    Fun ideas here... we used to love making crafts when I was a kid.
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