Easy and Fun Crafts to Keep Kids Busy Over Christmas Break

If you've read this blog for any time, you know when it comes to crafting I am all about easy. I've found several easily accessible paper crafts online that are free and printable. If you are trying to find some way to occupy your children, check these out!

1. Hattifant's Christmas flextangles. This is an ingenious fun paper toy. You color the art of the flextangle and then push it with your fingers and different pictures appear and disappear. Check out the link and video because my description doesn't do this neat toy justice.

2. Snowman puppet. Color, cut out, put together with brads and you have a fun snowman puppet! There's also a female version here.

3. Christmas Fairy. Print, color, cut out, and roll to make this beautiful Christmas fairy. My colored version is below.

4. Decorate the House for Christmas and Decorate the Room for Christmas. Print out a sheet with the house and a sheet with the room. Print out the decorations for each and let kids color, cut, and decorate to their hearts' content.

5. Draw your own Christmas tree decorations. Print out the sheet and create the decorations for the tree or use stickers.

6. Color and cut out your own nativity. Have all the kids join in and color different parts of the nativity, then cut out and set it up. Scroll down on the link for the nativity sets.

7. Advent tinies coloring sheet. I love coloring pages even for myself, and I think this sheet is adorable. Celebrate all the things of the season with this coloring page.

8. The Twelve Days of Christmas Coloring Sheets. Color one a day sing the song as you do. Or color and make a Twelve Days of Christmas book.

All of these are simple and require only printing to acquire. Print, hand to the kids, and let them go at it!