Who loves a cute Reindeer Craft? I do! I particularly love reindeers, or Rudolph Crafts which have handprint antlers. SO FUN! And an excellent cute method to create a little bit handprint Christmas Souvenir for Grandparents (or Mother and Dad!!). Your toddler and preschoolers will love creating their very own handprint antlers and mix these with some popsicle sticks to make this cute vacation craft.
Now, as you’ll be able to in all probability see from the pictures.. I couldn’t fairly determine if OUR reindeer ought to have some Christmas Baubles on it or not. I like how they BOTH look. So I assume it’s a query of time and provides for you. When working with youthful youngsters (particularly toddlers), you usually should do the slicing out for them, while they get to have enjoyable with sticking! So if you wish to minimize the paper Christmas lights (I layered the paper and them multi functional go), why not! Or hold it easy and depart your reindeer be!
That is a part of a group fo Christmas Handprint Crafts AND Craft Stick Crafts. I couldn’t resist combing these two themes collectively. We love saving all our ice lolly sticks – washing and drying them for crafting… and through the years, I realised that we had amassed moderately plenty of them. So this vacation season, I obtained a little bit popsicle stick crafting mad… in actual fact.. we’ve got an entire set right here:
We made some Handprint Popsicle Stick Angels some Handprint Christmas Gnomes (but additionally some Fall Gnomes) and naturally our cute Handprint Popsicle Stick Reindeer as we speak! However you too can use popsicle sticks to make these cute Christmas Popsicle Crafts – the Button Popsicle Stick Snowflakes and the Popsicle Stick Suncatcher Stars and common craft stick stars.
However I digress! Again to the duty readily available and our cute Handprint Reindeer Craft for preschoolers!
Provides wanted for Handprint Reindeer Craft:
- 3 popsicle sticks per reindeer
- A tracing of your little one’s arms
- Two toned brown paper (although in fact youc an make your reindeer any colour you would like)
- Scraps of coloured paper for those who want to add Christmas lights or baubles
- Scraps of white paper & a black marker pen for eyes
- A purple pom pom! You should utilize a chunk of purple paper as a substitute!
- Pair of scissors
- Glue stick
make a Handprint Popsicle Reindeer Craft:
A video tutorial can be out there on auto play.
The handprint antlers
Begin off by prepping the kid’s handprint antlers. In case you are working with older kids, the handprint antlers are more likely to get fairly huge… so you could need to use some jumbo craft sticks as a substitute, or as a substitute of the craft sticks, use some brown card or corrugated card!
Hint one hand on some folded paper and minimize out – you’ll minimize two out on the identical time. Alternatively, you’ll be able to print your little one’s arms utilizing paints. After which roughly minimize these out as soon as absolutely dried. If you need the preschooler to follow their slicing abilities, it’s in all probability easyer to roughly minimize out a print, than to chop out an actual hint!
make the reindeer’s head utilizing popsicle sticks
Make a triangle form along with your popsicles in your different piece of brown paper. This can be a nice time to debate triangles and shapes along with your preschoolers.
As soon as specified by the precise place, take every popsicle stick in flip and utilizing loads of glue stick glue, glue in place.
Subsequent minimize out the triangle reindeer face. Place along with your handprint antlers.. and already the reindeer craft is coming collectively!
Reindeer Face and Meeting
Now minimize out some circles or ovals for the reindeer’s eyes and draw on some black pupils along with your marker pen. After all you should use googly eyes or sticker eyes as a substitute. I like this technique as it’s eco pleasant!
Mess around with positioning the options on the face. I believed we could add some rosy cheeks however then determined in opposition to them.
As soon as you’re proud of the structure of your reindeer craft, glue in place with extra glue stick. A very good quantity of glue stick will safe the pom pom too.
The fundamental reindeer craft is completed! I then had a play with some paper to see if I wished so as to add some Christmas baubles/ Christmas lights:
I minimize out a number of layers of colourful development paper in a single go after which add some black particulars with my felt tip pen!
I made a decision that YES I just like the colourful bauble addition, however wasn’t so certain concerning the string. The string would work, for those who create this handprint reindeer as a collage!
Isn’t this popsicle reindeer lovable? As talked about, I believe this set of popsicle crafts is nice for preschoolers, as you’ll be able to discover the triangle form with them, as properly has enjoyable with souvenir handprints.
Don’t these two look lovable collectively?
Aren’t they’re nice method to discover triangle shapes with preschoolers? So enjoyable AND they make an ideal souvenir Christmas craft too.
Within the meantime, why not try the remainder of our assortment of Reindeer Crafts for Preschoolers! I am keen on the easy origami reindeers included, in addition to the intelligent orange slice reindeer decoration. TOO CUTE!! Or if you’re after some extra Christmas Handprint Crafts or craft stick crafts, test this assortment:
