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Q-tip painted Christmas tree craft

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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.

Q-tip painted Christmas tree. This is a great fine motor Christmas craft with such pretty results. These will be displayed in our living room at Christmas. || Gift of Curiosity

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.

Q-tip painted Christmas tree. This is a great fine motor Christmas craft with such pretty results. These will be displayed in our living room at Christmas. || Gift of Curiosity

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
Q-tip painted Christmas tree. This is a great fine motor Christmas craft with such pretty results. These will be displayed in our living room at Christmas. || Gift of Curiosity

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

Q-tip painted Christmas tree. This is a great fine motor Christmas craft with such pretty results. These will be displayed in our living room at Christmas. || Gift of Curiosity

XGirl got very creative with mixing colors together.

Q-tip painted Christmas tree. This is a great fine motor Christmas craft with such pretty results. These will be displayed in our living room at Christmas. || Gift of Curiosity

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. 🙂

Q-tip painted Christmas tree. This is a great fine motor Christmas craft with such pretty results. These will be displayed in our living room at Christmas. || Gift of Curiosity

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. 

Filed Under: Arts and Crafts, Preschool, Christmas, Kindergarten, Fine Motor, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

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  1. kari

    December 4, 2014 at 6:56 am

    You know, this is such a simple idea – painting with Q-tips – but I never considered it before! Not only would my girls love the Christmas tree painting activity, but I think we’ll brainstorm more ways to use Q-tips in their art time. Thanks so much for the inspiration. 🙂

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