Get ready to bring some holiday cheer into the classroom with these easy and cute Christmas ornaments to make at preschool!
From simple DIY crafts like handprint ornaments and salt dough Christmas trees to adorable popsicle stick snowflakes, these preschool Christmas ornaments are perfect for little hands.
Whether you’re looking for ornament crafts for your little ones to make for parents or fun festive Christmas activities, these ideas will make the season magical.
Join us as we explore the best preschool holiday crafts and create wonderful memories and decorations together.
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The SIMPLEST preschool Christmas ornaments
These Christmas preschool ornaments have the least prep, suitable for younger toddlers and preschoolers.
There are a few salt dough ornament crafts – which are a bit more prep and do require some cleanup. But the benefits of smooshing, squeezing and rolling play dough or salt dough are so worth it!
Easy Preschool Pompom Christmas ornament
This pom pom Christmas ornament from Elle Marie Home (previously the Inspiration Vault) is ideal for preschool kids. Such a good exercise in fine motor for the little ones and, this is the best, completely mess-free!
Grab these clear plastic baubles and festive pompoms and you’re ready to go.
Sea glass salt dough Christmas ornaments
I love these sea glass Christmas ornaments from Red Ted Art – preschoolers will love taking these home to their parents or hang them in the windows of the classroom!
These do need a bit of patience. Or if you have an oven at preschool, you can speed up the drying time to a couple of hours.
If you don’t have any sea glass you could try white buttons on green-colored salt dough as in the ornament on the right-hand side.
Popsicle-stick snowflake Christmas ornaments
Look at these popsicle-stick snowflake Christmas ornaments from The Best Ideas For Kids. They look fun ornaments to make with preschoolers and will make fabulous classroom decorations.
Once the craft sticks are glued together, you can hand this one straight over to little ones to get busy with.
(Stock up on colorful rhinestone stickers, sequins, sparkly pompoms and bells here.)
Easy salt dough Christmas tree ornaments
I made these salt dough Christmas ornaments at my little preschool at home, with my kids and a few others. They loved making them and I must say, having come up with the decorating part of this on the spur of the moment, I’m a bit chuffed at how well they came out! These are our favorite keepsake ornaments so far.
Simply make salt dough Christmas shapes, then decorate with with star stickers and glitter.
Pipe cleaner Christmas tree ornaments
These pipe cleaner Christmas tree ornaments from Red Ted Art are simple yet very effective. This preschool Christmas ornament will need a bit of prep first before handing over to the little ones. But it’ll be fun threading practice for preschoolers – a favorite activity of my daughter at the moment.
(Grab your colored craft sticks, pipe cleaners and beads here.)
Bird Seed Ornaments
These bird seed ornaments from Crafts By Amanda will fit perfectly with a winter nature preschool theme. Cut shapes out of cardboard, spread with peanut butter and sprinkle bird seed over. Then hang these as decorations outside, wait and watch!
Candy cane Christmas tree ornaments
These candy cane ornaments from Simple Fun For Kids are such easy preschool Christmas ornaments to make in the classroom or at home. The beauty of them is in the mixing of the red and white salt dough, so no decoration is needed.
Santa’s belly Christmas ornaments for kids
Wait up, look at this easy peasy idea! Maybe pick these Santa’s belly ornaments from Making Of A Mom to make at preschool? Red pompoms, felt glue and clear plastic ornaments are all you need for this cute Christmas ornament for kids.
For more crafts all about the jolly big man, try these Santa crafts for toddlers, including plenty of Santa hat crafts.
Paper straw Christmas ornament for kids
This paper straw Christmas ornament and craft from The Keeper of the Cheerios will be a good challenge for preschoolers (to measure and cut the straws of decreasing length). You can easily simplify if you need by marking the straws or getting the kids to just do the sticking.
(Buy some colored craft sticks if you want to skip the painting part; snowflakes and festive paper straws here.)
Fun Rudolf wood slice Christmas ornaments
These homemade Rudolf wood slice ornaments from Conservamome are another simple preschool craft that’s toooo cute! Little ones will love taking these home at the end of the day.
Such a cute and clever way to turn a wood slice into a mini Rudolf to hang on the tree. Grab your wood slices, googly eyes, mini clothespins and pompoms here.
More nature-inspired ornaments here.
Wrapping paper baubles
These wrapping paper baubles from Simple Fun For Kids are another super easy DIY Christmas ornament perfect for preschool. They can practice their scissor skills, cutting up some pretty wrapping paper and will then have fun stuffing it into the plastic bauble. No-mess = no-stress!
Love crafting with your kids?
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Nature Treasures Christmas Ornaments
Here’s another fun and educational preschool Christmas ornament that starts outside. Make these Nature Treasure Ornaments from The Unschooled Project after a good foraging activity in the playground or woods.
Collect acorns, leaves and other random bits and bobs to fill your plastic baubels with. Then simply place your natural treasures inside and hang around the classroom or on the tree.
Cookie cutter Christmas ornaments
Rather than salt dough, these cookie-cutter Christmas ornaments from Red Ted Art use store-bought air-dry clay reducing your prep-time to almost zero! Aren’t they just so simple and effective? A gorgeous and simple Christmas ornament to make at preschool.
Wine cork Snowman ornament
Adorable snowman ornaments from Janine Huldie, made from a wine cork no less! I particularly love the ear muffs.
My kids have a thing about snowmen for some reason (they loved making these snowmen cards) and will definitely manage to slap on some white paint. Then they are going to love drawing on the eyes, mouth and buttons and finding a warm cozy scarf and a set of earmuffs.
Popsicle stick Christmas ornament
It may be best to prep the basic tree shape of this popsicle stick Christmas ornament from Simple Mom Project first. Then let your preschoolers get creative with the decorating side of things.
There’s no need to limit the decoration just to buttons. I can definitely picture a bit of glitter coming out of the cupboard for this one! Such a cute and easy Christmas ornament for kids to make.
Decoupaged Christmas star ornaments
These decoupaged Christmas star ornaments will be fun to make at preschool. Festive but a little more subtle than others; not too “bling” as we say in the UK! I guess that could change depending on who’s in charge of sprinkling the glitter, though, right?
Grab some polystyrene stars, modge podge and patterned tissue paper and get decoupaging.
Toilet roll snowmen Christmas craft
Who doesn’t like a craft made from a toilet paper roll or two?! These toilet roll snowmen from Red Ted Art are the cutest. Not strictly Christmas tree ornaments, but could easily be hung on the tree with the addition of a loop of thread.
This’ll be a fun preschool Christmas ornament for all the little lovers of snowmen! Mine will love making these, particularly dressing them – check out those hats. Click the link for the tutorial.
Spaghetti Christmas ornaments
These spaghetti Christmas tree ornaments were a hit with my preschoolers. The only difficulty was getting them to not eat the dried pasta! Like most little kids – pasta, particularly spaghetti (or worms as they call it), is their absolute favorite food (savory that is…)
If you haven’t already stocked up on silver spray for Christmas, now is the time to.
Craft stick Christmas tree ornament craft
These craft stick Christmas tree crafts & ornaments from Little Bins For Little Hands are very simple in concept, but little ones will probably need a little bit of help with the yarn wrapping. I just love the sparkly pompom tree decorations!
Such a fun Christmas ornament to make with toddlers.
More Christmas tree crafts here.
Super easy paper plate bauble Christmas ornament
Here’s such a fun preschool Christmas ornament that’s simple enough for little ones to do fairly independently. Simply grab a paper plate for your toddler to decorate. Try crumpling up tissue paper, tissue paper circles, stickers or why not let them scribble and color?
Apple Star Ornaments
Combine dried apple and orange slices to make these beautiful Apple Star Ornaments from Rainy Day Mom. What a lovely sensory experience for your preschoolers that will leave your classroom with the warm cozy aromas of Christmas!
Love free printables?
Try these, including some for the festive season:
- 7 Free Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt Printable PDFs for Kids
- 10 {Free & Editable} Santa’s Nice List Certificate Printables
- 30 FREE Printable Christmas Bingo Cards {5 Festive Sets}
Slightly TRICKIER Christmas ornaments for kids at preschool
These ones either require a bit more prep or finishing off (=more time), or need a little more skill and dexterity.
Simple Christmas Ornaments Made From Nature
Try these beautiful nature Christmas ornaments from Attempting Montessori that you can hang at preschool as suncatchers all year long! Yes, these lovely ornaments should definitely not be confined just to the festive season.
All you need is cardboard and contact paper, plus items your little nature-lovers want to display.
Nutcracker Christmas ornaments for kids to make
These Nutcracker peg doll Christmas ornaments are such a classic and will add a bit of sophistication to your Christmas tree. My daughter will love helping with these, particularly making that frilly skirt – she’s all about princesses and fairies at the moment.
Clay pot snowman Christmas ornament
Here’s a fun Christmas ornament to make with preschoolers. They’ll will love sticking the googly eyes on, to create this super cute clay pot snowman (from Intelligent Domestications) and then wrapping him up warm with scarf and earmuffs.
Orange Clove Pomander Decoration
These Orange Clove Pomander ornaments are sure to keep little hands busy. Sticking cloves into the skin of the orange will work those hand and finger muscles, helping to develop fine motor skills.
Little ones will tire easily, so this one would be a fun class effort that you can use to decorate the classroom.
Snowflake Christmas ornaments for kids
These snowflake ornaments (made from pipe cleaners) from Cendu Param are virtually no prep but look a bit tricky for the little ones.
I think this one is definitely for the older preschooler.
Pompom pinecone tree ornaments
These pompom pinecone trees are very simple, but do require a lot of glue! Close supervision will be needed!
Grab some clean pine cones, colored cotton balls or pompoms and away you go.
Clothespin reindeer ornament
Old-school clothes pins are the basis for this sweet Clothespin reindeer ornament. Little ones will need help sticking the clothes pins together at the beginning (strong wood glue will do) which then needs to dry. But can then be left to decorate with mini googly eyes and wreath.
Christmas clay pot ornaments
Another mini clay pot here, this time a Christmas tree ornament from Darcy and Brian. A fun and festive painting project for preschool that they can then take home to their parents.
3D Christmas paper ornament craft
Color, cut, fold and assemble to make an adorable handmade 3D Christmas ornament craft for kids with free printable.
Or skip the coloring and try the cute Christmas animal ornament template. Click the link for the free printable.
Twig Christmas Tree Ornaments
Here’s a delightful nature-inspired Christmas ornament for preschool. Gather twigs outside at playtime. These become the horizontal branches of a Christmas tree.
Your preschoolers can break up their foraged sticks and sort them by size. The sorting and arranging from shortest to longest is a great pre-maths activity so it’s worth letting them take their time and guiding them with this. Then simply glue to a popsicle stick and decorate.
KEEPSAKE Christmas ornaments for preschool
Everyone loves a handprint craft – here are some with a festive spin. As well as some fingerpaint and finger print crafts and other Christmas DIY ornaments with a keepsake element.
Fingerprint clay Christmas ornaments
These fingerprint clay ornaments from Thimble & Twig are just gorgeous, aren’t they? Why not add the year to mark the occasion. Get the number and letter stamps here.
Thumbprint Rudolf Christmas ornaments
A fun keepsake Christmas ornament to make at preschool – turn their thumbprint into Rudolf with this thumbprint Rudolf ornament from @cristynsharkey. Click the link above for the full tutorial.
Want to try some handprint craft templates?
We have a few templates that are free to download:
- Cute Free Fall Handprint Craft Templates
- Free Father’s Day Handprint Craft Templates INSTANT DOWNLOAD
- Adorable Valentine’s Day Handprint Craft (Free Templates)
Wrapping up these preschool Christmas ornaments
Well, you should be spoilt for choice now when it comes to choosing a preschool Christmas ornament. There are so many adorable ornaments to choose from!
Let me know which you try – I’d love to hear from you.
Looking for more Christmas arts and activities for your littles? Take a look at these:
- 55 cute Christmas crafts for toddlers
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- 43 easy-peasy Christmas activities for toddlers
- 41 Fun, Easy & Adorable Nativity Crafts for Kids
- 50 Christmas sensory activities for toddlers
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