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Snowy Christmas Village Art Project

This snowy day Christmas village art project is so much fun! I love the contrast of the deep blue paper against the brown, gingerbread style houses most of all.

Plus, being a gingerbread village, this project has a great tie in with literacy learning!

And I love that, even with just a few, simple craft materials and art processes, each child’s Christmas village will look so completely different from the one next to it.

Snowy Christmas village art for school age kids

This is a great Christmas art idea for school age children, especially kids ages 8+ years. You can find more fun Christmas ideas for this age group in our collection – 12 Days of Christmas Fun for School Age Kids

Create Your Own Snowy Christmas Village Art Project

You will need:

  • Cardstock – brown and blue
  • White acrylic paint
  • White marker
  • 2 paint brushes
  • Glue stick
  • Scissors

Instructions to make you Christmas Village:

1. Begin by painting a white strip of acrylic paint across the bottom of a sheet of blue cardstock.

Paint splattered Gingerbread Village

 

2. Cut a series of different sized house shapes from brown cardstock – each a simple rectangle with a pointed roof and each a slightly different size.

Snowy gingerbread village art

You can add a simple small rectangle for a chimney on some of the houses as well.

3. Decorate each of the houses with the white marker. Include a door, window, roof tiles.

Snowy day gingerbread village art

You might also like to add some candy-like shapes and scrolls for fun gingerbread house details.

Christmas Village Art for Kids

4. Glue the houses, overlapping very slightly, along the top of the snow painted along the bottom of the blue cardstock.

Christmas Village Art Project for School Age Kids
Christmas Gingerbread Village Art

5. Add a little paint along the very bottom of the row of houses.

Kids Christmas Village Art

6. To create the snow effect, load a paintbrush with a good amount of white acrylic paint.

Snowy Christmas Village Art for Kids

Use the end of another, dry paintbrush to tap against the paint-loaded brush. Keep tapping one brush against the other, all across the paper.

Snowy Day Christmas Village Art for Kids

The paint splatter adds a great element of texture to your winter snow scene.

Christmas village art project

Snowy Christmas gingerbread village art

More fun Christmas ideas for school age children;

12 Days of Christmas Math Activities 3D Paper Folded Christmas Tree Craft for School Aged Kids

Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

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