There's nothing like finding some quality stuff to print out, letting the printer get to work and then sitting down to prepare a fun and festive project!
Little kids just love to create - and if that means decorating the house with ornaments and pictures galore, as well as making presents, so be it!
Even the grown-ups catch the bug... and you'll find uncles, aunts and grandparents happily gluing glitter to paper plates, or untangling sticky tape from under the coffee table.
Tip: Small children often get so excited around Christmas time that they don't know when to stop. Before starting an activity, tell your child exactly what you are going to do, and that when that is finished, you will have a meal or go to the park, for example.
The sites below offer craft instructions and printable Christmas activities for kids - and the links open into a new browser window. Have fun!
Online printable Christmas activities for kids
Enchanted Learning Print out instructions for a paper bag reindeer puppet, candy train, handprint tree - plus many more great craft activities.
If you want to print out all the activity books and printable web pages, you'll have to sign up as a member - I've got a year's subscription, and it's great.
We're just about to do the snowman dot to dot and a winter wordsearch from the winter printables section - and with over 20,000 web pages, there's more than enough to keep my family busy with printables all year covering a multitude of other topics.
abcteach Christmas printables abcteach offers over 5,000 free printable pages and worksheets for parents and teachers.
Their Christmas collection contains coloring pages, dot-to-dots, word searches and printable craft projects.
Danielle's Place Danielle's Place is a lovely site, full of ideas and inspiration focused on teaching children through fun crafts and activities.
The Christmas pages include instructions to make dog treat gift bags, an ice cream cone Christmas tree or a keepsake picture frame.
I recommend printing out the two Christmas crafts pages for yourself and adding them to your Christmas craft folder!
Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby House Jan Brett's becoming a bit of an Internet legend - 4,354 pages of free activities, coloring pages, and projects, among which you'll find this Gingerbread Baby House to design and color in. Drag and drop the candy decorations, then print out your finished house - or email it to a friend!
There are lots more activities by Jan Brett of course - this site is a real pleasure to browse.
