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Imagination Box Christmas and Winter Art Ideas 
Scroll down to view detailed Winter and Christmas resources for teachers and a great selection of free printable coloring pages, craft and art project ideas to keep kids occupied through November and December.

You can find more detailed, fun art activity packs for the classroom on my Teachers Pay Teachers Store 
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Happy Holidays around the world!

WINTER & CHRISTMAS RESOURCES - TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS

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FREE SNOWBOARD BOOKMARKS ACTIVITY!

free snowboard bookmark printable coloring pages for kids
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free snowboard bookmark printable coloring pages for kids
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View the full 50 page detailed Winter Snowboarding Sports Resource here

WINTER & CHRISTMAS FREE DOWNLOADS
MODERN ART 'HIDDEN' ACTIVITIES

'Hidden Tree'

'Hidden Angel'

'Hidden Star'

free printable hidden christmas tree
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hidden angel free christmas printable
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christmas star free colouring page
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Simple stitched trees - make gift tags and cards

stitch tree templates
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stitched tree template
stitch tree template
stitch tree template

Festive Musical Doodles

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doodle a musical tree
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doodle manuscript xmas trees
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doodle manuscript baubles
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Festive Frames

Perfect for a letter to Santa, your pressies wish list, cards and masterpieces
free printable festive border downloads
free printable festive border
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free printable festive border
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free printable festive border
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free printable festive border
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Create your own snowstorm!

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LET IT SNOW!
Use this winter tree template to create a snowstorm.
Experiment with techniques - 
fingerprinting
dabbing with a paint brush
dabbing with a cotton bud
glueing cotton wool
glueing buttons
circular stickers
circles of paper from a hole punch
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winter tree, just add snow!
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Winter tree - just add snow!
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Doodle Trees

These Christmas printables can be used to make cards, tags and garlands. Experiment with felt pens, pastels, sequins, glitter......
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Modern Art Festive Reindeer - Colouring Activity

Following the popularity of my 'Modern Art Horse' for Chinese New Year, here's this Christmas's challenging colouring activity! Suitable for all ages, adults and children alike. Have fun experimenting with different colour palettes. 
Add some glitter to the sections for added festive sparkle! 

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Make a giant Vintage Bauble

free vintage bauble colouring page
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Love Snowmen Free Printable

You can use these free printables to make your own wrapping paper, gift tags, bookmarks, cards, wall art
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Warhol Inspired Christmas Tree Free Printable

You can use these free printables to make wrapping paper, gift tags, bookmarks, cards, wall art.

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4 free Christmas card designs

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3 festive patterns to colour in



Christmas Pattern Printables

Here are 3 free designs to download and colour.

Make them into cards or gift tags.

Tiny Trees, Retro Baubles and Triangle Santa.

Encourage kids to explore pattern, shape, graphic design, colour combinations.

Download here

Some Festive Craft Ideas

bead and pipe cleaner snowflakes

Simple Sparkling Snowflakes
Make a 6 pointed snowflake with pipe cleaners and thread beads onto each point
Bend the pipe cleaner over at the end to stop the beads falling off!
Add some thread and hang. Suitable for young children with adult supervision, just be careful of the sharp ends of the pipe cleaners
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Peg Doll Angels
Use traditional wooden pegs, doilies, scraps of fabric,
silver / gold card wings, wool hair, pipe cleaner halo,
felt tip face.
Older children can sew, younger ones use glue or selotape!

salt dough decorations
Salt Dough  Window Decorations
Roll salt dough into sausages to form hearts & circles. Make patterns in the dough by pressing a biro or pencil into the dough. Make holes for threading. Paint with acrylic when dry - they last for years with a coat of varnish. I recommend the Kirstie Allsopp recipe


tissue paper and wire decorations

Wire, Tissue Paper and Beads
Thread beads (or buttons) onto wire and bend into a heart shape for an instant decoration!
Wet some torn tissue paper with watered down pva and wrap around a wire frame and add some glitter to make solid filled hearts.

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Felt Tree Decorations
Felt, old clothes, ribbons, buttons, and a little bit of toy stuffing!
Handmade and unique.
More details on the blog page.


origami baubles

Origami Baubles
These lovely handmade decorations can be made with all sorts of papers. This example was made using a Christmas Carol music sheet.
More details, instructions and ideas on the blog page. 

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Decopatch Baubles
Decopatch is a great activity for children and adults alike.
We covered some cheap star shaped baubles with these lovely papers.
See the blog page for more info on decopatching.

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Christmas Pegs
 Wooden pegs are very cheap to buy and are great for pegging
 up Christmas cards!
We decorated them with felt tips, paints, metallic pens, and fine liners.
This project kept my 6 year old entertained across several sessions, he loved doing them!

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Button Canvas Mosaic
This stays up all year round, I made it for my other half a few Christmases back, after getting a hoard of beautiful buttons from a car boot sale!
I painted the red heart shape onto a square canvas and then used a good quality pva to attach the buttons.
I have also seen snowmen and christmas tree button mosaics which children would love to make.

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Thumb Printing
This is a great activity for all ages.
See my Creative Christmas Countdown blog for 
instructions.
Happy printing! 

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Tissue Paper and WIre

This Christmas star was made a while back - it comes out every year!
It's made in the same way as lanterns, by wrapping pva soaked tissue paper around the frame. Glitter and shiny stars give it some extra sparkle.

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Pipe Cleaner Rings
My children LOVE making these flamboyant sparkly rings!
You'll just need 7 pipe cleaners.
Visit the pipe cleaner lady and watch you utube video for step by step instructions!

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Printing!
This is such an instant and rewarding activity.
You can use polystyrene pizza bases or buy some sheets of polystyrene to print with.
Experiment printing on different types of paper -  brown paper, sheet music for example.
I buy sheets online at GreatArt


salt dough tree decorations

Salt Dough
Another favourite in our family. We speed cook them in the microwave! Cutters are available cheaply in discount stores.

I use the Kirstie Allsopp Channel 4 salt dough recipe.


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Pinterest is a great way to view, share and collect ideas. You can find lots more family friendly festive activities on my Pinterest Kids Xmas board

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Hello! I live in Manchester, UK with my partner, and our two children. Luckily our house has a converted basement, where my art studio is packed full with art materials of all shapes and sizes!
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