Simple Winter Crafts for Toddlers

When the cold weather keeps you indoors, it’s the perfect time to break out some fun winter crafts that will keep your toddler entertained. These simple activities don’t require any fancy materials or hours of prep.

They’re all about using basic supplies like paper, glue, maybe some cotton balls and a bit of creativity to create something fun! Plus, toddlers love getting hands-on, and these projects give them the chance to explore new textures and colors while working on their fine motor skills.

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Simple instructions for each of these fabulous winter crafts are found below. If you need more details or want to download any free templates, simply click the link in the title to read the full posts.

Although not included in the list o supplies, you will need scissors and glue for most of the following crafts.

Fork Painted Snowy Owl

What You’ll Need:

• Fork
• White paint
• Black, yellow, white and orange construction paper
• Mini white pom poms
• Snowflakes

How to Make:

1. Dip the fork into white paint and make strokes to form the owl’s body on black paper.
2. Cut out eyes, beak and feet, glue them down.

Glitter Snow Penguin

What You’ll Need:

• Black, white, orange paper
• White glitter with paint brushes
• Googly eyes
• Cotton balls

How to Make:

1. Add glue to blue construction paper and sprinkle white glitter.
2. Cut out a penguin shape from black paper and coat the belly with glue. Add cotton balls to the bellow
3. Add googly eyes and an orange beak and feet.

Q-Tip Painted Winter Tree

What You’ll Need:

• Brown paper (or paint) for the tree trunk
• Q-tips
• White paint
• Blue paper

How to Make:

1. Cut out a tree trunk from brown paper and glue it onto blue paper, or paint the trunk directly.
2. Dip Q-tips into white paint and dot around the branches to create a snowy effect on the tree.

Color Reveal Snowflake

What You’ll Need:

• Paper towel
• Black sharpie
• Blue washable marker
• Bowl, water and paint brush

How to Make:

1. Draw a snowflake design with a sharpie on the paper towel. Place another sheet over underneath and color the area where the snowflake is with blue marker. Place the snowflake over top.
2. Paint over the snowflake with water to reveal the design.

Cork Painted Snowflake

What You’ll Need:

• Snowflake template (available for free here)
• Corks
• Blue paint (two different shades)
• White paper

How to Make:

1. Cut out snowflake template and tape to white paper.
2. Dip corks into blue paint and stamp onto paper in a snowflake.
3. Let it dry, remove snowflake template and reveal snowflake negative space below.

Bubble Wrap Winter Tree

What You’ll Need:

• Bubble wrap
• White paint
• Brown paper for trunk
• Blue paper
• Cotton balls

How to Make:

1. Glue a brown trunk cut from paper.
2. Paint bubble wrap white and press it onto the tree to create the snow.
3. Glue cotton balls down for snow.

Toilet Paper Roll Snowman

What You’ll Need:

• Toilet paper rolls
• White, black and orange paint
• Q-tips
• Googly eyes, buttons, and fabric scraps
• Blue, red and black paper

How to Make:

1. Cut paper rolls end to create a star burst shape. Dip into white paint and stamp on blue paper to create the snowman body and head.
2. Decorate with googly eyes, buttons, and a fabric scarf.

Snowflake Suncatchers

What You’ll Need:

• Clear contact paper
• Black construction paper
• White and blue tissue paper
• Scissors
• Snowflake template

How to Make:

1. Use free snowflake template to set out outline of snowflake from black construction paper.
2. Place on contact paper, cut out squares of white and blue tissue paper and place on the contact paper.
3. Place another sheet of contact paper over top. Cut around the outline. Stick on window with double sided tape.

Hot Glue Gun Snowflake

Hot Glue Gun Snowflake

What You’ll Need:

• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• White cardstock
• Watercolors and paint brush

How to Make:

1. Create outline of snowflake with hot glue gun.
2. Paint inside with watercolors.

Toilet Paper Snowflakes Name Craft

What You’ll Need:

• Toilet paper rolls
• White paint
• Glitter
• Paper

How to Make:

1. Cut ends of toilet paper rolls to form snowflake shapes. Dip into paint.
2. Stamp on blue paper and add glitter. Use q-tip to write letters of child name into each snowflake.

Sock Snowman

What You’ll Need:

• White sock
• Rice or stuffing
• Fabric scraps
• Buttons, googly eyes, and felt for a nose
• Elastic band
• Pom pom

How to Make:

1. Fill a white sock with rice or stuffing and tie it to make snowman sections with elastic band.
2. Decorate with buttons, googly eyes, and a fabric scarf.

Paper Penguin Craft

What You’ll Need

• Blue watercolor paint
• White cardstock
• Black, white, and orange construction paper
• Scissors, glue stick
• White paint, small brush or cotton swab

How to Make

1. Paint the sky on the cardstock with blue watercolors and let it dry.
2. Cut the penguin: black body, white belly, black eyes, orange beak and feet.Glue belly, eyes, beak, and feet onto the body.
3. Glue the penguin to the background once dry. Use white paint to dot snowflakes around the sky.

Sticky Snowman Craft

What You’ll Need:

• Contact paper
• Cardboard
• Cotton balls
• Buttons
• Paper or felt for details (hat, eyes, nose)

How to Make:

1. Stick contact paper (sticky side out) onto the wall.
2. Let your toddler stick cotton balls and paper pieces to form a snowman.

Puffy Paint Snowflake

What You’ll Need:

• White glue
• Shaving cream
• Blue paper
• Ziplock bag

How to Make:

1. Mix equal parts glue and shaving cream to make puffy paint. Pour it in a ziplock bag. Push the paint to one corner and cut a small hole
2. Use the mixture to create a snowflake design on blue paper.

Snow Plow Shape Craft

What You’ll Need:

• Paper (various colors)
• Cotton balls
• Toilet paper tolls
• Aluminum foil
• Q-tip
• White paint

How to Make:

1. Cut paper into shapes like rectangles, triangles, and circles.
2. Arrange them to form a snow plow and glue them down. Cut a toilet paper roll lengthwise in half, glue down as the plow.
3. Glue cotton balls down on the ground for the snow.
4. Add q-tip painted snowflakes.

Fork Painted Melted Snowman

What You’ll Need:

• Fork
• White paint
• Black and orange paper

How to Make:

1. Dip the fork into white paint and swipe it on paper to make a melted snowman shape.
2. Add black paper for eyes and buttons, and orange paper for the nose.

Hot Chocolate Name Craft

What You’ll Need:

• Brown tissue paper
• Colored construction apper
• Cotton balls
• White dot sticker for name letters

How to Make:

1. Draw or cut out a mug shape from paper. Glue brown tissue paper inside cup.
2. Write letters of name on white dot stickers. Stick on brown tissue paper.
3. Glue cotton balls on top for steam.

Cupcake Liner Snowflake

What You’ll Need:

• White cupcake liners
• Scissors
• Glue
• Q-tip and paint

How to Make:

1. Fold cupcake liners and cut shapes to make snowflakes.
2. Unfold and glue them onto a piece of paper.
3. Add q-tip painted snowflake.

Penguin Sticky Wall Craft

What You’ll Need:

• Contact paper
• Black marker
• Black tissue paper
• Cotton balls
• Orange paper or foam sheets
• Googly eyes

How to Make:

1. Stick contact paper (sticky side out) on the wall.Draw outline fo penguin.
2. Let your child stick paper pieces, cotton balls onto the contact paper to create a penguin.

Pom Pom Painted Snowflake

What You’ll Need:

• Pom poms
• Clothespins
• White paint
• Blue paper

How to Make:

1. Clip a pom pom onto a clothespin, dip it in white paint, and stamp snowflake shapes onto the blue paper.

Fork Painted Snowflakes

What You’ll Need:

• Fork
• White paint
• Blue paper

How to Make:

1. Dip the fork into white paint and press onto blue paper to make snowflake patterns.

LEGO Painted Snowflake Craft

What You’ll Need:

• LEGO bricks (small or large)
• White paint
• Blue paper

How to Make:

1. Dip the flat side of a LEGO brick into white paint.
2. Stamp the brick onto blue paper to form snowflake patterns by rotating and layering the stamps. Let it dry.