Celebrate the most important icon of Christmas celebrations with these pretty Christmas tree crafts for kids! There’s something for everyone here!

There’s something about a fully decked-out Christmas tree – it immediately brightens you up, and brings a smile on your face, even if you’ve had a bad day. The lights, the splendour and the colors – they remind us of all the good in this world!

But the Christmas tree as we know it is a fairly recent phenomenon. While boughs of holly and other evergreens have been used for decorations throughout history, the Christmas tree has a story of its own.

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The Timeline of the Christmas Tree

1419 – An association in the German city of Freiburg decorates a tree with apples and sweetmeats
15th Century – English churches in the countryside are decorated with holly and ivy
16th Century – German reformer Martin Luther is captivated by stars twinkling between the leaves of evergreen trees, and recreates it by decorating a tree at his home with lit candles
1605 – Strasbourg bears witness to the first decorated indoor tree, decked up with flowers, fruit and sweets
1820 – The German community in Pennsylvania introduces the Christmas tree in the United States
1846 – A sketch of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert standing around a Christmas tree appears in the Illustrated London News and becomes popular
20th Century – The advent of electricity starts the trend of decorating Christmas trees with electric lights
1930 – Construction workers set up a small tree at the construction site of Rockefeller Center, as a symbol of hope after the Great Depression, and this becomes a yearly tradition

Nowadays, the Rockefeller Center tree is a huge one, decorated with over 50,000 Christmas lights! Well, that’s quite hefty, but we’ve got something light for you today. Here are some amazing Christmas tree crafts for kids that you can make with simple things like paper, pipe cleaners or quilling strips!

20 Captivating Christmas Tree Crafts for Kids

1. Paper Quilling Christmas Tree Card

If you’ve still got someone left to give a Christmas card, try making this one featuring a paper quilled Christmas tree. It’s simple, elegant and so pretty!

2. White Pipe Cleaner Christmas Tree Ornament

Kids will enjoy twisting pipe cleaners to create this fun Christmas tree craft! Get little beads to act as ornaments – make sure the hole is big enough for the pipe cleaner to pass through.

3. DIY Paper Quilling Christmas Tree Ornament

Here’s a fun quilled Christmas tree craft that’s great for quilling beginners. The tree uses round quill shapes, while the star is made up of the teardrop shape.

4. DIY Corrugated Paper Christmas Tree

You can make Christmas tree crafts for kids from any paper, even textured types! We’ve done it here with corrugated paper, and as you can see, the texture adds a whole level of interest!

5. Pipe Cleaner Christmas Tree Craft

Here’s another way of twisting pipe cleaners to make a Christmas tree! That’s why we love things like pipe cleaners, which can be bent and twisted into anything we want!

6. Easy Christmas Tree Lacing Card

Give the little ones some fine motor exercise with this lacing Christmas tree card! It is easy to do, but the end result is quite good looking1

7. DIY Easy Cupcake Liner Christmas Tree

If you have those Christmas-themed cupcake liners lying around at home, put them to good use by turning them into a cute little Christmas tree!

8. Easy 3D Christmas Tree Pop-Up Card

We love pop-up cards, which is why we went ahead and made one featuring a Christmas tree! You can write little messages inside the presents, which open up!

9. DIY Metallic Paper Christmas Tree Ornaments

As we mentioned earlier, we like crafting using different kinds of paper, and this time we’ve used metallic paper to make some glamorous-looking Christmas ornaments!

10. Christmas Tree Crayon Holder Coloring Card

This little printable has multiple purposes – it’s a coloring page, a card, a crayon holder, and can also double up as a stocking stuffer when you put in some crayons!

11. Christmas Tree Surprise Card Template

We love surprises that wait for us under the Christmas tree, but we also love ones that pop up in Christmas tree crafts for kids – like this fun printable!

12. Festive Christmas Tree Corner Bookmark

Yes, it’s the holidays, yes, school’s out, but you don’t have to stop your reading journey! Keep it going with some festive flair, using these cool DIY corner bookmarks!

13. Pompom Christmas Tree Craft

Can Christmas tree crafts for kids act as something more? Well, Messy Little Monster shows us that it can be done, with this printable tree that doubles up as a reward chart!

14. Handprint Christmas Tree Craft

Get a print of those cute little hands to create these adorable handprint trees from Our Kid Things! This is a great craft for toddlers, who’ll enjoy sticking the little ornaments on the tree.

15. Paper Plate Christmas Tree

If you can find green paper plates – great! If not, you can always paint plain white paper plates to make this fun Christmas tree craft from Made to be a Momma!

16. Popsicle Stick Christmas Tree

One easy way of using Popsicle sticks to make Christmas tree crafts for kids is by sticking three sticks together in a triangle, and one at the bottom so you have a basic tree. If you’d like to take it further, try out this project from Taming Little Monsters.

17. Tissue Paper Christmas Tree Craft

Simple Everyday Mom has another fun project for the littles, featuring tissue paper. It’s a great way for those little hands to get familiar with different textures of paper.

18. Origami Christmas Tree Craft

We love Origami Christmas crafts, and this one from Ocean Child Crafts may be among our top 5! It looks complex, but follow the instructions and you’ll find it’s actually quite easy!

19. Playdough Christmas Tree

You can of course, fashion playdough into a conical tree, but Easy Peasy and Fun makes things a little more interesting by adding some Popsicle sticks and contact paper into the mix!

20. Easy Paper Christmas Tree Craft

This is probably one of the easiest Christmas tree crafts for kids we’ve seen, and it’s from Fireflies and Mudpies! Simply fold the paper into a cone, and a star and a string, and you have a new ornament for your tree!

We hope these Christmas tree crafts for kids add some extra fun to your festive celebrations. Most of these are quite easy and low on time and effort. Little kids can be assisted by older siblings, and you can use the final trees to deck up your mantle or shelves!

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