This Christmas Suncatcher craft has been something we’ve been thinking about for a while. This Christmas craft for kids is a fun one to add to your holiday line-up. With the sun streaming in through the dining room window, it’s the perfect place for sun catchers. And this Christmas themed craft is the perfect addition to our big dining room window. We went a little crazy with the sequins on this craft. Our Christmas suncatcher craft is very sparkly, and just right for the season! Big Sister loved making this project and the fine motor work involved was just right for her age.
Christmas Tree Sun Catcher
This Christmas fine motor activity is a fun craft for working on specific fine motor skills such as pincer grasp, in-hand manipulation, and precision, including distal mobility. While we used sequins for our Christmas tree suncatcher, you could use practically any crafting material, from tissue paper, to foam stickers, to pressed flowers or pine needles. Use your imagination and make it an open-ended craft for the kids.
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This craft started with some major Sequins, and two triangles cut from green Construction Paper.
How pretty are these sequins?? LOVE the colors and sparkles in this Christmas craft!
I cut two triangles of Clear Contact Paper, just slightly smaller than the green triangles. Big Sister started placing the sequins on the contact paper.
This was such a great fine motor activity for that Neat Pincer Grasp. To pick up the sequins from the table surface and place them onto the contact paper requires tip to tip grasp of the index finger and thumb. All of those sequins was a great workout! She did a ton of them, but we ended up sprinkling even more sequins on to the contact paper to give our sun catcher a REALLY sparkly look.
Next came Big Sister’s favorite part. Do all Kindergarteners love tape as much as she does? This girl loooooooves tape! We stuck the two pieces of contact paper together to sandwich the sequins in the middle. Then we taped the contact paper onto on of the green triangles.
A little glue held the top triangle in place and our sun catcher was complete! Let us know if you do this craft. We love to see our projects come to life with your kids!
Colleen Beck, OTR/L has been an occupational therapist since 2000, working in school-based, hand therapy, outpatient peds, EI, and SNF. Colleen created The OT Toolbox to inspire therapists, teachers, and parents with easy and fun tools to help children thrive. Read her story about going from an OT making $3/hour (after paying for kids’ childcare) to a full-time OT resource creator for millions of readers. Want to collaborate? Send an email to contact@theottoolbox.com.
6 thoughts on “Christmas Suncatcher Craft”
So sweet tree!
How fun! I love how it turned out.
Thank you, we think it is pretty snazzy too!
Thank you!
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