Christmas Preschool Craft: Ornaments With A Religious Theme

Christmas religious preschool craft projects are popular among church-based programs for young children. Teachers can use these directions for three types of Christmas ornaments when helping their students create special mementos of the holiday season:

Materials needed:

poster board cut into star shapes (1 per child)

yellow craft paint

paintbrushes

gold glitter

glue

yellow yarn (1 six-inch piece per child)

Directions:

1) Give each student a poster board star, and instruct the class to paint their stars yellow. (The children should paint one side of the star first, wait until the craft paint dries, then paint the other side.)

2) Show the preschoolers how to squeeze tiny dots of glue across one side of their stars. Sprinkle gold glitter onto the drops of glue and shake off the excess. When the glitter has dried, have the children repeat the process on the other side of their stars.

3) When the star ornaments have dried completely, use a hole punch to make a small hole in one of each star's points. Thread yellow yarn through the hole and knot the ends together so that the ornament can be hung on a Christmas tree.

Materials needed:

clothespins with rounded tops (1 per child)

small squares of white felt (1 per child)

markers

yarn for angel hair (yellow, brown, or white)

muffin pan liners cut in half lengthwise (2 halves per child)

glue

Directions:

1) Give each preschooler some markers that they can use to draw a face on the rounded part of their clothespins. Assist the children in making angel hair by gluing small pieces of yarn to the tops of the clothespins.

2) Instruct the children to wrap a square of white felt around the length of the clothespin; this is the angel's "robe". Cut the felt to fit as needed, and glue the edges of the felt to the back of the clothespins.

3) Give each child two halves of a muffin pan liner, and show the class how to make "wings" by gluing the liners onto the back of the angels. (The rounded edges of the liners should meet at the middle of the angels' backs, and the flat edges should be facing outward.)

Materials needed:

green construction paper cut into oval shapes (1 per child)

yellow construction paper cut into rectangles and "fringed" at the edges (1 per child)

pale orange construction paper (cut into larger circles for babies' heads and smaller circles for babies' hands)

white construction paper cut into shape of infant dressing gown with sleeves (1 per child)

crayons

glue

yarn cut into six-inch pieces (any color)

Directions:

1) Hand each child all of the paper pieces that are needed for this project. Ask the students to glue the fringed yellow rectangles (the "manger") to the center of the oval background.

2) Instruct the preschoolers to glue the Baby Jesus pieces (head, dressing gown, hands) to the center of the manger. After the paper has dried, the children can use crayons to draw faces on their babies.

3) Use a hole punch to create one small hole at the top of each ornament. Thread yarn through the hole and tie the ends together so that this Christmas religious preschool craft ornament can be displayed on the tree.

Christian parents will enjoy seeing the ornaments that their preschool children have made in honor of the holiday. These Christmas religious preschool craft projects give children the opportunity to work with several types of art supplies while creating Biblical ornaments.

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