Description
Looking for a free Christmas craft for kids that they can make, move and play with when they’re finished?
This Free Christmas Elf Craft is a fun, hands-on printable activity where children can color, cut and assemble their very own moveable elf puppet.
Children simply color and decorate the Christmas elf, cut out the pieces and join them together with paper fasteners to create a festive puppet with moveable arms, legs and head.
Once assembled, the elf is ready for imaginative play, Christmas storytelling, puppet shows or simply as a festive Christmas craft to take home.
This printable elf craft is a fun way to practise fine motor skills, scissor skills, coloring, hand-eye coordination and creativity while enjoying a little Christmas fun!
🎄 What’s Included
- 1 black and white printable Christmas elf puppet
- Moveable arms, legs and head
- Preparation and assembly instructions
- Decorating and activity ideas
✏️ Skills Practised
- Fine motor skills
- Scissor skills and cutting practice
- Coloring and pencil control
- Hand-eye coordination
- Creativity and self-expression
- Storytelling and oral language
- Imaginative and dramatic play
🎅 Perfect For
- Preschool and Pre-K
- Kindergarten and Grade 1
- Christmas classroom activities
- Christmas crafts for kids
- December activities
- Fine motor activities
- Early finishers
- Homeschool activities
- Christmas parties
- Take-home Christmas crafts
- Puppet shows and storytelling
🎄 Love Your Christmas Elf?
This little elf is also part of my Moveable Christmas Puppets collection! Children can create Santa Claus, Mrs Claus, an Elf and a Reindeer, with both full-color and black and white versions included in the complete set.
You can get the entire collection HERE.
Have a TpT account?
Prefer to keep your resources in your TpT library? This FREE Christmas Elf Craft is also available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store HERE.
