This easy kids craft is perfect for Christmastime. Get the little ones involved by letting them choose the colors of paper plates and hats to create their very own festive bearded gnome.
Materials:
- Large or Small Paper Plate {one per Christmas gnome craft}
- Scissors
- Scrapbook Paper {in Christmas colors if you can!}
- Brown Cardstock Paper
- School Glue
- Hand-Held Office Stapler
- Snowflake Stickers or Paper Punch
Directions:
- First things first – the beard of the gnome. Go ahead and take your paper plate & cut it in half.
- Keep one half for the craft today and save the other for another day
- Along the curved edge of the paper plate half cut small notches, that are really close together, until you get to the other side of the paper plate {make sure to not go all the way through the paper plate and accidently cut your plate in half} If your child needs help on this step and doesn’t know where to cut, you can draw some lines with a marker and have children cut each line.
- When you are done cutting the paper plate and making his beard, curl a couple of the strips up and down to give it some texture and some flair. Set aside.
- Now grab your choice of color in scrapbook paper.
- Cut out a LARGE triangle from the scrapbook paper. This will be the Christmas gnome’s hat.
- Next, out of the tan cardstock, cut out a large oval shape for his nose.
- To finish off the Paper Plate Gnome craft, staple the triangle hat to the paper plate beard.
- Follow that up by gluing the nose in place.
- Add a few snowflake stickers or paper embellishments to the hat, to tie the winter theme together.
- Then let it all dry completely before displaying proudly.
Credit given to gluedtomycraftsblog.com for this fun craft.