Christmas is a magical season for little ones, and nothing excites toddlers more than anything shaped like a Christmas tree.
From sensory activities to simple crafts, you can create meaningful holiday memories while encouraging creativity and fine-motor development.
Below are 15 fun, easy, toddler-friendly Christmas tree activities your little one will love.
1. Felt Christmas Tree Wall Activity
A felt Christmas tree is one of the best toddler-safe decorations you can create.
Cut out a large green felt triangle and stick it to the wall using removable strips.
Then cut felt ornaments, stars, gifts, and candy canes.
Toddlers can decorate and redecorate the tree as many times as they want—no mess, no breakables, and perfect for practicing hand-eye coordination.
It becomes a creative play station they’ll return to all season long.
2. Pom-Pom Christmas Tree Drop
Use a clear plastic bottle or cardboard tube decorated like a tree and give toddlers pom-poms to drop inside.
This simple activity strengthens fine motor skills and introduces counting.
You can even switch pom-poms for jingle bells to add sound play.
Toddlers enjoy watching the objects fall, making it a quiet, engaging activity for independent play.
3. Sticker Christmas Tree Craft
Toddlers adore stickers, so give them a paper Christmas tree cutout and a sheet of colorful round stickers.
These stickers act as ornaments, lights, and stars.
This activity supports color recognition, finger control, and creativity.
Toddlers can also peel and stick at their own pace, giving them a sense of accomplishment as their tree fills up with “decorations.”
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4. Handprint Christmas Tree Art
This is a sentimental activity parents love to keep.
Dip your toddler’s hand in green paint and make several prints arranged like a Christmas tree.
Add tiny finger-painted ornaments and a yellow star at the top.
Handprint crafts capture their tiny size, making it perfect for Christmas keepsakes or gifts for grandparents.
5. Play-Dough Christmas Tree Sculpting
Give toddlers green play-dough and let them mold Christmas trees.
Add safe accessories like plastic beads, pipe cleaners, or tiny cookie cutters so they can decorate their trees.
This activity boosts sensory play and imagination.
Play-dough also helps strengthen small hand muscles needed for writing later on.
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6. Christmas Tree Sensory Bin
Create a sensory bin filled with green rice, pine-scented cotton balls, plastic ornaments, small bows, and scooping tools.
Add Christmas tree figurines or cutouts.
Toddlers love digging and exploring textures while learning cause and effect.
It’s a festive way to keep them entertained while you get holiday tasks done.
7. Dot Marker Christmas Tree Coloring
Give toddlers a tree outline and dot markers in Christmas colors.
They can stamp ornaments, garlands, and lights onto the tree.
Dot markers are toddler-friendly, mess-free, and great for grip strength.
This becomes a low-prep activity ideal for holiday mornings or quiet time.
8. Popsicle Stick Christmas Tree Craft
Glue three popsicle sticks into a triangle shape to form a mini tree.
Toddlers can paint the sticks green, add glitter, stickers, or foam ornaments.
It’s a perfect craft for developing creativity and can also be turned into an ornament for the family tree.
Kids love seeing something they made hanging up for everyone to admire.
9. Christmas Tree Scavenger Hunt
Hide little tree-shaped items or ornaments around the room and give your toddler a small basket to collect them.
Keep clues simple and visual. This activity keeps toddlers active and helps develop attention skills.
You can play again and again by hiding the items in new places each time.
10. Tree-Shaped Snack Decorating
Use sugar cookies or rice cakes shaped like trees and let toddlers add sprinkles, icing, fruit pieces, or yogurt dots.
Edible decorations make the activity extra fun and safe.
This builds sensory exploration and introduces early cooking skills while creating adorable festive snacks.
11. Button Christmas Tree Board
Cut out a cardboard tree shape and glue large buttons to it.
Give toddlers felt or paper ornaments with slits to “button” onto the tree.
This encourages problem-solving and strengthens fine motor skills.
Toddlers enjoy the challenge of figuring out how to attach each ornament.
12. Christmas Tree Painting with Sponges
Cut a sponge into a simple tree shape, dip it in green paint, and let toddlers stamp trees across a sheet of paper.
Then give them q-tips or smaller sponges to add “lights.”
Sponge painting is great for sensory exploration and allows even very young toddlers to create beautiful artwork.
13. Nature Christmas Tree Building
Head outdoors and collect pinecones, sticks, leaves, and small pebbles.
Once inside, help your toddler arrange the items into a Christmas tree shape on paper or a tray.
This introduces nature exploration, teaches shape recognition, and encourages creativity using real natural textures.
14. Magnetic Christmas Tree on the Fridge
Cut a large magnetic Christmas tree from a green magnet sheet (or use a poster and add magnetic strips).
Make magnetic ornaments for toddlers to move around.
This turns your fridge into a holiday activity center and gives toddlers a reason to play nearby while you cook or bake.
15. LED-Light Sensory Christmas Tree
Create a soft-glow toddler-safe sensory tree using a cardboard cutout with battery-operated LED lights poking through the holes.
Toddlers love touching the lights and watching them twinkle.
It’s a calming sensory activity perfect for evening play or bedtime wind-down during the holiday season.
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