Celebrate the season by making a cute, one-of-a-kind reindeer craft with your kids. This simple to make reindeer handprint craft is a fun extension to a story about Christmas reindeer or the most famous reindeer of all – Rudolph! Plus you’ll love that this reindeer footprint craft helps create a priceless keepsake by preserving the size of your kids precious hands and feet. Try this Christmas craft with toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd graders this December!
Reindeer foot and hand craft
I LOVE hand art – it is easy to do with kids & makes such great keepsakes when you are done! This reindeer foot and hand craft is perfect to make in December as you celebrate the holiday season and start reading lots of fun books with reindeers in them! Our reindeer craft is obviously a rudolph craft project because of the bright nose! This Christmas craft for kids is perfect for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students too.
Look at HOW SMALL my youngest Reindeer is – she was only a month old when we made these – and she was a tiny baby. I treasure that tiny reindeer!! I especially love seeing the three of their art together. We hung these on the kitchen cabinets throughout the whole Christmas season last year. Who knows what will be gracing our cabinets this year?!
Looking for more cute christmas activities for kids? You will love our adorable fingerprint Rudolph Christmas Craft for Preschool, pretty construction paper wreath craft, and free Christmas playdough mats
Reindeer craft
All you need are a few simple materials to make this super simple december craft for kids:
- construction paper – two shades of brown, white, and black
- brown or red pom pom
- scissors
- glue
- google eyes (optional)
- washable acrylic paint – brown and white (optional)
- paint brush (optional)
- baby wipe – optional, but handy
Reindeer footprint craft
Their are two ways to make this cute reindeer craft project. The first one is the more simple way with just construction paper and pompom. Start by tracing your child’s foot on a piece of brown construction paper. Cut out with scissors.
Reindeer handprint craft
Now trace both your child’s hands on a piece of tan construction paper. Cut out the hands carefully with scissors.
Rudolph craft
Use glue or tape to affix the hands to the top, back of the construction paper foot.
Christmas Craft for Kids
Now it’s time to make your reindeer face by adding construction paper or google eyes and a red pompom nose. Affix with glue. Isn’t he so cute?!
Hand and feet christmas crafts
The 2nd way to make this adds a little extra character. Start by painting your child’s hands tan by mixing brown and white acryllic paint. Press both painted hands on a piece of white cardstock or white construction paper. Clean hands with a baby wipe and set aside to dry.
Next paint ONE of your child’s feet dark brown and press on a piece of white cardstock. Clean off foot and once again, set aside until the paint is completely dry. You can use a paint brush to fill in any gaps you might have.
December hand art project
Once dry, cut out the painted hand and foot prints.
Reindeer craft for preschoolers
Affix the reindeers hands to the back of the foot. Now add some construction paper or google eyes and a red or brown pom pom nose. Isn’t he so cute. The paint adds an extra layer of interstest and character.
Reindeer craft for preschoolers
No matter which way you choose to make your reindeer, it is such a cute Chrsitmas art project to make in December. Use them to decorate your home, doors, give as a present to grandparents, or tuck them away as a preciou keepsake you will enjoy looking back at for years to come.
Christmas Printables
- FREE Christmas Around the World Worksheets, Lesson, Crafts, and more!
- NO-prep Christmas Scavenger Hunt printable pdf
- Christmas Worksheets pdf – over 60 pages of free pages to practice math, literacy, and more in December, Christmas Vowel Teams Game or eigh phonics game
- Variety of Free Polar Express Worksheets for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd graders too
- FREE Elf on the Shelf Printables to make elf antics silly and no-prep
- Christmas Cut and Paste Shape Worksheets
- Over 100 Free Christmas Activity Sheets
- Christmas Maze printable pack for elementary age kids
- Cute Christmas Tracing Sheets for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners
- Free Printable Christmas Stationary
- Gingerbread Man Sequencing Activity with free printables
- Letter Find Christmas Worksheets for Kindergarten
- Nativity Activity Sheets – huge set of printable pages to review letters, counting, adding, literacy, and more holiday fun
- Practice writing ABCs with free printable Traceable Christmas Ornaments
- Christmas Color by Sight Word Worksheets for Kindergartners
- Super cute, free Christmas Worksheets for Preschool
- Free Christmas Hat Template for kids
- Playdough Christmas Light Patterns Christmas math activities for preschoolers
- Stocking match-up activity – Christmas alphabet letters printable free
- Christmas Sight Words Games for Pre-k
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