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Simple Christmas Threading.

Posted on November 19, 2013 8 Comments

This easy Christmas threading activity is a great way for toddlers and preschoolers to make a fun Christmas decoration, while working on fine motor skills.

Simple Christmas Threading - quick easy and cheap!

Christmas always seems to creep up on me! One minute it’s mid November and we are celebrating our twins’ birthdays, the next it is suddenly only a few weeks until Christmas!

My kids love to do Christmas crafts and activities, but when there is so much I still have to organise for Christmas, the idea of doing a Christmas craft seems overwhelming! But sometimes it’s worth it to set aside my Christmas to do list, and do a quick Christmas activity. And Christmas crafts don’t always have to be difficult or time consuming!

This Christmas threading activity is perfect for little hands, it’s low-mess, easy to set up, and it works on those fine motor skills. And when you are done you have a gorgeous Christmas decoration to hang!

How to Make a Christmas Threading Decoration

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You only need a handful items to make these cute Christmas threading decorations, and you might even have them all in your kitchen!

To do some Christmas threading you’ll need:

  • Cupcake Liners
  • Straws
  • String
  • Scissors.

We had a multi coloured pack of cupcake liners and just chose the Christmassy colours, and did the same with our stash of recycled drinking straws (save and wash any plastic straws you happen to get as they are great for crafts). You can also use paper drinking straws which also come in all kinds of fun Christmas designs.

We use plastic craft string as it is stiff enough to make it easy to thread without a needle. You can also use wool or other string and tape a large section at one end to make it stiff and easy to thread with.

How to cut cupcake liners for threading

To make the cupcake liners into star shapes, just fold a stack of patty pans in half (I did about four at a time) and cut triangles out of the curved edge. Then unfold them, punch a hole in the middle and they are ready to thread.

Cupcake liners and straws cut for threading

Cut the straws into short lengths to make them easy to thread – if they are too long and it is trickier to get your string through them and out the other end.

Tie a piece of straw to one end of the string so that your threaded items don’t fall of, and you are ready to thread!

toddler doing Christmas threading activity

This simple activity is great for toddlers and preschoolers. There is lots of opportunity to practice fine motor skills and the finish product looks gorgeous hung in the window or on the Christmas tree.

If you have older kids you might like to make one very long Christmas threading to use as a garland or Christmas tree decoration!

Simple Christmas Threading - quick easy and cheap!

If you need some more easy, low-mess. Christmas activities do you with your kids, you might like these:

Decorate a gingerbread man craft ideas and template
Decorate a Gingerbread Man Printable
Free printable Christmas challenge cards - great for drawing or building ideas to keep the kids busy.
Christmas Challenge Cards
Christmas find and colour - a fun free printable activity
Christmas Find and Colour Printable

Simple Star Decorations - with free printable template and easy instructions
Simple Star Decorations
Set up a simple Christmas Imaginary play scene that even smells like Christmas!
Christmas Imaginative Play
Make an easy Christmas garland with this free printable.
Christmas Garland

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  1. h. says

    Nice and simple. Kubi just started enjoying threading so its a good one for us too. Right inspiration at the right time. Thank you for posting.

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  2. Kate says

    What a simple and very beautiful Christmas decoration. Love it! It’s so lovely when children can make such decorations themselves and it doubles to develop important skills like the ones you mentioned. Great work Kate.
    P.S I’m only warming up to Christmas. LOL

    Reply
  3. Veens says

    Aarya hates threading :( I have tried a lot of times :(
    The end-product looks gorgeous :)

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    • katepickle says

      oh well…. I guess you can’t like everything! LOL I am sure there is something else that Aarya loves to do :)

      Reply
  4. Christie - Childhood 101 says

    What a great idea, Kate. You are all sorts of clever :) Good luck with the Christmas preparations!

    Reply
  5. [email protected] says

    Just love these colours and a great idea to make threading a little special!

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  6. Cassi says

    I always love a good cupcake liner/patty pan craft and that the kids can do this on their own. I’ll be sharing soon!

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  7. Stella says

    I very much enjoy your website. I have stringed popcorn, lifesavers and now I will string cup cake holders. I place scotch tape on the ends of the yarn, or string so the young children don’t have to use a needle. It works just fine
    Thank you for your ideas

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