24 Easy Paper Plate Crafts For Kids

These paper plate crafts are perfect for the little ones in your classroom. There is enough paper plate projects and activities in this roundup to complete a whole year of lesson plans. These projects are also fun to make at home for kinder kids and homeschool kids art projects. All of these kids crafts use paper plates. Paper plates are a great craft item to have on hand as within minutes you can have a craft activity ready to go. We have included our own paper plate tutorials below for a Lamb and a tree, perfect additions to your classroom craft activities ideas.

No need for anything fancy, complicated, or expensive for your kids to get creative and show off their creativity and of course their imagination. There are so many fun kids crafts you can create with a bit of paint and some cutting.

21 PAPER PLATE CRAFTS FOR KIDS

1. Paper Plate Easter Bunny

2. Cruz Ramirez Paper Plate Craft

3. Paper Plate Cupcake Liner Fish

4. Paper Plate Frog Craft – Check out these books about Frogs

5. Paper Plate Fish Craft

6. Paper Plate Ladybug

7. Paper Plate Love Birds

8. Paper Plate LadyBug

9. Paper Plate Rocking Sheep

10. Paper Plate Cogsworth Craft

11. Paper Plate Heart Sewing Craft

12. Paper Plate Mayflower Ship

13. Paper Plate Puffer Fish

14. Paper Plate Owl Craft Pair this activity with these Books about Owls

15. Paper Plate Peacock Craft Books about Peacocks

16. Paper Plate Lion Craft

17. Paper Plate Insect Sewing Craft

18. Flamingo Paper Plate Craft

19. Paper plate Jellyfish

20. Paper Plate Arctic Fox

21. Paper Plate Star Twirler

Paper Plate Lamb Craft is a perfect activity to pair with these books

Sheep Dog and Sheep Sheep: Baaad Hair Day

Go To Sheep

Lambslide

The Sheep Who Hatched an Egg

Instructions

Paper plate

Cotton balls

Quick dry tacky glue or school glue

Spring Lamb Template File (below)

Print the Spring Lamb Template file of your choosing.

If printing with cutting machine, upload the correct file to your software. Resize the images to fit 6 ½ inches wide and 11 inches long. Select to print and cut. Be aware that the SVG and EPS files are in black and white. If you choose to print in color, you will need to set those colors within your software manually.

Allow children to create the Spring Lamb by gluing cotton balls to the paper plate. Then, add the paper layers to create the ears and face.

This kids craft tutorial shows you how to make a tree using a paper plate, perfect for lesson plants and book activities.

Paper plate

Green crepe paper

Brown construction paper

Quick dry tacky glue or school glue

Pair this kid craft activity with some children’s books about trees

Cut brown construction paper into a tree trunk and attach it on the back of the paper plate with glue.

On the front of the paper plate, use glue to attach long ribbons of crepe paper.

All to dry completely before playing or displaying.

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There’s no rule that says Christmas trees in real life have to be green, and there’s no rule in cross stitch that Christmas trees have to be green, either. While I love a good traditional looking tree (in reality or in cross stitch) there are lots of fun other choices, which we’ll explore here.

Looking for more Christmas tree cross stitch patterns? Check out this post from last year.

I am going to start with a traditional tree, but this one has a lot of color thanks to the lights and other decorations on it. This one is form xCountingtheStarsx, and it uses 20 colors. Worked on 16 count fabric it comes out to about 5.6 by 9.25 inches, or 14.2 by 23.5 cm, with a stitch count of 90 by 148.

These fun designs from Catholic Sprouts have traditional tree shapes but are filled with fun patterns and colors. These would be fun to stitch as a set or you can make each of them and give them as gifts to different people or use as holiday cards.

The Christmas tree shape is a little less literal in this swooping design from Well Stitches. I like this one because it only uses one color so it’s great for beginners, but it still looks dramatic. It is 109 by 155 stitches, which comes out to 7.99 by 11.07 inches, or 19.78 by 28.12 cm on 14 count fabric (dimensions for other counts are also included if you want to make it smaller).

And if you want to go for all color, check out the Merry and Bright Christmas tree cross stitch pattern from Tapestry Barn. This pretty skinny tree is surrounded by multicolored snowflakes. The designs on the tree remind me of knitting patterns. And even though it’s lots of colors, it’s only worked with whole stitches and no back stitching. It looks lovely on dark fabric! The piece measures about 7 by 7 inches, or 18 by 18 cm, on 14 count fabric.

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