Easy Christmas Crafts for Tweens

Middle school aged children love Christmas crafts. Working on a holiday project brings out the creative side in many kids who are in their tween years.

This holiday season, plan some easy Christmas crafts your students can make and take home.

Egg Carton Advent Wreath

An advent wreath that students can make in CCD class and take home to use and enjoy with their families is a great craft idea for just before the Christmas season.

This advent wreath project is as quick and easy as you can get. Supplies needed for this advent wreath project are:

• Cardboard egg cartons
• Large birthday candles or emergency candles
• Green clay
• Greenery

Cut the cardboard egg cartons into square four-cup sections. Fill each cup with clay. Insert candles into the clay. Decorate around the edges with greenery.

Christmas Crackers

A Christmas tradition in Great Britain is for the children to each get a Christmas cracker – a small tube filled with candy and trinkets and covered in pretty Christmas wrap. When you pull on both ends at the same time, the paper covering pops off and the goodies spill out.

Students can make their own, filled with candy, Bible verses and small toys, with a few supplies. A variation is to substitute the toilet paper tubes with the front covers of Christmas cards rolled into a tube and taped.

Here’s what you’ll need to make your own Christmas crackers:

• Toilet paper tubes
• Christmas wrapping paper
• Ribbon

Fill the tube with whatever candy and toys you have available. Wrap the tube in Christmas wrap, leaving 3-4 inches of paper at each end. Tie the ends with ribbon.

Jingle Bell Wreaths

These miniature jingle bell wreaths are pretty and festive when hung on a Christmas tree. They can also be hung on a doorknob as a welcoming jingle.

Supplies needed to make jingle bell wreaths are:

• Small jingle bells
• Thin craft wire
• Narrow ribbon

Thread the jingle bells through a section of craft wire, occasionally pushing them as close as possible and shaking the wire to make the jingle bells fit closely next to one another. Form into a circle and twist the wire at the top to close the circle. Leave a small amount to form into a hook to hang. Tie the ribbon into a bow at the top.

Miniature Advent Wreaths

These little advent wreaths are just like the larger versions. Start looking for pink and purple birthday candles ahead of time. And gather up old Mason jar lid rings wherever you can.

Supplies needed to make miniature advent wreaths are:

• Mason jar lids, one per child
• Clay
• Pink birthday candles, one per child
• Purple birthday candles, three per child
• Miniature greenery
• Narrow purple ribbon

Turn the Mason jar lid ring upside down and fill the rim with clay. Carefully insert the birthday candles in the ring. (Tell students to be careful – birthday candles snap and break easily.) Insert greenery into the clay to fill the ring. Attach a purple bow.

For more ideas for quick and easy Christmas crafts, see 10 Minute Christmas Crafts.

Advent Candle

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