Set up a Christmas card making station for kids and try these homemade Christmas card ideas using fun arts and crafts supplies.
Updated November 2024
We like to send out Christmas cards every year, soon after Thanksgiving. It’s one of our favorite rituals of the year. And we try to get the kids involved as much as possible.
Try setting up a Christmas card making station at a table where your kids can work at any time – all together, with friends, or individually when the urge or inspiration strikes.
And if you’re not sure where to start or what materials to leave out, try these Christmas card ideas!
Basically, every card is a mini artwork that you can send out to family and friends with a little note.
Christmas Card Ideas for Kids
1. Paint with Watercolors
Create a mini watercolor artwork, such as this rainbow painting above, and embellish with glitter tape.
Note: For these cards, we like to tape down all of the edges with masking or washi tape. This keeps the card stable as we work on it, and creates a nice, crisp border for your artwork.
2. Use Washi Tape
Make these simple handmade cards with washi tape and glitter tape. Simply use the tape to make a design or image on the front of the card. These sparkly and festive cards are easy for the whole family to make!
3. Make Sticker Resist Starry Sky Cards
These cards are so beautiful, they could be framed and hung on the wall! Simple stick star stickers onto the front of your card and paint over with watercolors. Once, dry remove the stickers to reveal the white stars!
4. Stamp Your Own Designs
Create your own stamps using rubber plates or styrofoam and make a series of cards with the same design. We love to send these, and also gift a set of cards to the special people in our lives.
5. Make a Tape Resist Message
Turn a card into tape resist art. Use washi tape to write a message or create a design and paint over with watercolors. Once dry, remove the tape to reveal your message!
6. Draw Your Own Cards
This one is super simple! Just set out some blank cards and a few drawing tools in holiday colors and let your kids draw their own Christmas images and designs.
You can also set up a card making station with blank cards, stickers, and any other fun decorations your kids might like and let them go for it! You can make any and all of these cards directly onto folded over cardstock or blank cards, or you can glue the mini artworks onto blank cards.
To make the note-writing part easier and more fun for kids, you can also have each child write one note, then photocopy it to insert into all of their cards.
How about you? Would you consider setting up a Christmas card making station like ours and getting the whole family in on some creative card-making?
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