Q-tip painted Christmas tree craft

Christmas is just around the corner. Perhaps a beautiful Q-tip painted Christmas tree would be just the thing to provide a bit of holiday cheer?

Not only do these make a great fine motor activity for kids, they are so beautiful that they are displayed in a prime spot in our living room right now. Indeed, my kids had so much fun making these that making just one Q-tip painted Christmas tree wasn’t enough!

Note: For more Christmas activities your kids will love, see my Christmas Activities for Kids page.

To start, I folded a sheet of green heavyweight construction paper in half. I traced half a tree onto the paper and then cut it out. When I opened the paper back up I had a perfectly symmetrical tree.

Once I had the tree shapes prepared, I placed the following materials onto a tray:

• Tree outline
• Plastic painting palette with small squirts of paint in the wells
• Q-tips

I then invited the kids to begin painting. QBoy got right to work making small dots with his Q-tips.

XGirl got very creative with mixing colors together.

After completing one tree each, both kids were still very engaged and wanted to paint some more. So I kept cutting new tree outlines in various sizes for them to decorate.

And now we have a beautiful forest of Christmas trees in our living room. 🙂

More Christmas resources

More Christmas crafts from Gift of Curiosity:

• Craft stick reindeer
• Paper plate reindeer craft
• Christmas tree ribbon craft
• Cinnamon Christmas ornaments
• DIY Christmas snow globes
• Sand-filled Christmas ornaments
• Fine motor Christmas craft
• Gingerbread man craft

For more Christmas activities your kids will love, see my Christmas Activities for Kids page and my Christmas Activities for Kids Pinterest board.