Making holiday cards is a fun and meaningful way to celebrate the season, and this Cork Painted Ornaments Card is an easy craft that kids will love. Using simple materials and a creative stamping technique, this activity combines art and festive fun to create one-of-a-kind cards. It’s a perfect mix of crafting and giving, all wrapped up in holiday cheer!
Why You’ll Love This Christmas Card Craft
You’ll love this craft because it’s easy to set up, encourages creativity, and produces beautiful results. The cork stamping technique is simple enough for even the youngest crafters, and the addition of gold pipe cleaners adds a festive flair. These cards are perfect for spreading holiday cheer in a personal, handmade way.
Materials You’ll Need:
- Cardstock (folded into a card shape)
- Washable kids’ paint
- Corks
- Paper plate
- Scissors
- Something to trace a circle (like a roll of tape)
- Gold pipe cleaner (for the ornament string and bow)
How to Make the Cork Painted Ornament Christmas Card
1. Prepare the Circle Template
Take an extra piece of cardstock, fold it in half and use a roll of tape or another circular object to trace a circle on one side. Cut out the circle to create a stencil by pinching the center and cutting out just the circle. This will help guide the placement of the ornaments on your card.
2. Set Up the Paint Station
Pour a few colors of washable paint onto a paper plate. Spread the paint out slightly to make it easier to dip the cork. Have your corks ready for stamping. TIP: if you are worried about the colors mixing and turning gray or brown, only choose 2-3 colors that are close together in the rainbow. That way if they do mix they won’t make brown!
3. Stamp the Ornaments
Place the circle stencil on the front of your card. Dip a cork into the paint and stamp inside the stencil to create an ornament shape. Repeat with different colors and corks to add more ornaments to your card. Let the paint dry completely.
4. Add the String and Bow
Cut a piece of gold pipe cleaner for the ornament to create the string. Glue the pipe cleaner to the top of the ornament. Twist another piece of gold pipe cleaner into a bow shape and glue it at the top of the string for extra detail.
5. Write Your Message
Open the card and write a holiday greeting inside. You can also use markers or pens to add extra decorative touches around the ornaments.
This Cork Painted Ornament Christmas Card is a fun and festive way to create personalized holiday greetings. It’s easy to customize, quick to make, and allows kids to explore their artistic side while spreading holiday cheer. Happy crafting!
Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers
There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!
But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.
Play2Learn for Toddlers includes 20 Units for toddlers. Each 2-week toddler unit has 20 super easy to set up and engaging activities for toddlers 18 months to 3 years.
Play2Learn Preschool which includes 20 Units for preschoolers. Each 2-week preschoolers unit has 20 unique and easy to set up and engaging activities for preschoolers 3 years to 5 years. That’s over 800 learning activities for your toddler and preschooler at your fingertips! So many ideas you and your child will never be bored again!
These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!
Click here for more information: Play2Learn
Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids
Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon.
Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.
Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.
Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids
Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more.
Find out more and grab your copy here.
Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.
Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids
Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.
- 350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
- Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
- Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.
Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!
Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.
TV Show: Curious Crafting
I’m so excited to share my crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched in July 2022 on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Season 2 aired in August 2023! My show was also nominated in 2023 for Best Live Action Preschool Series by the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence.
Curious Crafting Season 1 is also now airing in Australia on ABC! Watch it here!
Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.
In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.
Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.
This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up.
