Printed crafts are great because they offer a real personal touch to a gift. These little thumbprint reindeer are so cute that we make always some cards in this style every year. The best part is they are really simple to make which means they’re great for younger children to get involved with too!
Thumbprint Reindeer heads
You will need:
White card Brown paint Brown marker Googly eyes Pom Poms Glue
To start you will need to make your thumbprints, we went with three but you can do as many or little as you like. Leave your reindeer to dry.
Now take your brown pen and draw some simple antlers on to your reindeer prints.
Finally, add two googly eyes and a pom pom nose to each of your reindeer and optionally add a message to your card.
Thumbprint Reindeers
You will need
Brown paint Red paint Beige paint Brown pen Googly eyes Glue
To make your reindeer you will need to make a vertical thumbprint for the head, then attach a horizontal thumbprint for the body. Leave your reindeer to dry.
Next take your brown pen and give each reindeer some antlers, legs and a tail.
Finish your Reindeer by adding two googly eyes and a nose to each. Don’t forget to give Rudolph a special red nose!
I know I should probably be uploading Halloween crafts this week but all the Christmas goodies popping up in shops and Christmas movies being shown on tv are making me feel extra festive! I Can’t wait for Christmas with our little ones this year. The first thing we usually start making at Christmas is the cards, just so that we have plenty in lots of different designs. This woven paper Christmas tree design is one of my favourites, its great for practising motor skills and hand eye co-ordination and it looks really sweet too!
You will need:
Light green paper Dark green paper Yellow paper Brown paper Sellotape Scissors A folded piece of card (Optional)
To start, take your green paper and cut out the triangle shape of your tree.
Now, take the bottom part of your triangle and fold it around a cm up. Take your scissors and make little snips in the paper evenly spread about 1cm apart.
open up the fold and extend the snips to fit your Christmas tree. Try to make sure you don’t cut open the edges of your tree. If you do however, don’t worry you can just secure it with Sellotape!
Take your dark green paper and cut it into strips. Individually thread the strips into your Christmas tree following an under, over pattern.
Secure the strips down on the back of your Christmas tree using Sellotape. If your strips overhang on the front of your Christmas tree; simply fold the strips over the sides of the tree and secure with tape.
Use your yellow and brown paper to cut out a star and a tree trunk, glue them into position.
