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Creative ideas for and with children
Make little Christmas memories together with a glue gun, fabric scraps and glitter in your hair. There’s room for creative moments, quirky ideas and Christmas decorations the children can be proud to have made themselves.
Christmas full of colour, imagination and fun
Christmas with children is playful, creative and free from rules. On dark December days, make happy memories together with a glue gun, fabric scraps and glitter in your hair! Let the children lose themselves in creative projects, have a laugh and decorate with all the things that make them happy.
All the inspiration in one place
Here you’ll find ideas for a magical Christmas with the children: creative DIY projects they can make themselves, gifts and decorations you can sew for them, felt figures, cuddly toys, Christmas jumpers and much more.
Theme 01 ♥ Children’s Christmas decorations
Decorations you make together
Yarn, felt and little creative ideas become Christmas decorations full of personality. Easy projects the children can get involved in, perfect for decorating the tree, presents and your home at Christmas.
Idea 01
Little felt candles
Cosy flameless candles, cut and sewn in soft shades of felt.
Idea 02
Little pom-pom reindeer
Soft, silly and full of Christmas cheer. Make these little reindeer together with the children.
Idea 03
Little hands for the Christmas tree
Capture a little Christmas moment while those hands are still small. Trace the children’s hands in air-dry clay, add their names and hang the personal keepsake on the tree year after year.
Idea 04
From drawing to Christmas decoration
Give the children’s drawings a new life with needle felting. Turn quirky lines and imaginative characters into decorations you can bring out year after year.
Idea 05
Little felt Christmas jumpers
Cut little jumpers from felt and let the children decorate them with pom-poms, ribbons and glitter. The more personal, the better. This is where Christmas cheer gets to take over.
Theme 02 ♥ The children’s Christmas table
A Christmas table made for children
Christmas with children deserves a style all of its own. The table might not look like the perfectly styled Christmas table on Instagram, but it will be full of colour, quirky details and homemade decorations the children have helped to create. And it will certainly be cosy.
Let the children help decorate
Start the Christmas fun before the table is even set. Make napkin rings, table decorations and little figures together, and let the children choose the colours, shapes and quirky details. After all, it’s their Christmas table too.
Idea 06
Potato printing for the Christmas table
Grab the potatoes and fabric paint, and let the children put their own stamp on the Christmas table. Print onto a tablecloth, napkins or placemats to create Christmas decorations guaranteed to look nothing like the neighbours’.
Idea 07
Put your own stamp on the tablecloth
Let the children decorate the tablecloth with fabric paint, colours and fun motifs. Heat-set the paint afterwards so their artwork can be washed and brought out for the Christmas table again next year.
Idea 08
Draw on the Christmas napkins
Get the fabric pens out and let the children decorate the fabric napkins. Trace around a little hand, add names or let their imaginations run wild with designs of their own.
Theme 03 ♥ Christmas anticipation
The waiting is half the fun
Sometimes the days leading up to Christmas are the cosiest of all. Here are three projects you can sew well in advance and bring out when December begins. Choose a festive fabric, switch on the sewing machine and create little traditions that make counting down to Christmas together even more special.
Idea 11
Christmas stockings for little surprises
Sew personalised Christmas stockings for the family and fill them with little surprises throughout December.
Idea 12
Sew a Christmas gift sack
Sew a personalised gift sack for this year’s surprises and bring it out again Christmas after Christmas.
Idea 13
Little bags for Advent
Sew four little Advent bags with numbers and fill each one with a surprise for every Sunday in Advent.
Idea 14
Sew your own Advent calendar
Sew an Advent calendar for 24 little surprises and make the countdown to Christmas a tradition year after year.
Many more ideas for Christmas
Fancy a little more inspiration? Discover even more creative Christmas ideas, with inspiration for decorations, gifts and cosy projects you can make on your own or together with the family.