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    Home » Christmas Recipes and Kids Crafts and Activities

    Christmas Paper Chain Craft

    Published: Nov 7, 2018 · Modified: Jul 11, 2022 by Vicky · This post contains affiliate links.

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    Are you looking for quick and easy Christmas crafts for kids that use supplies you already have at home? Then you're going to love this Christmas Paper Chain Craft. Make a happy Santa, a playful Rudolph the reindeer and mischievous elf out of construction paper. Connect them into a chain decoration sure to brighten up your home this holiday season.

    Are you looking for quick and easy Christmas crafts for kids that use supplies you already have at home? Then you're going to love this Christmas Paper Chain Craft. Make a happy Santa, a playful Rudolph the reindeer and mischievous elf out of construction paper. Connect them into a chain decoration sure to brighten up your home this holiday season. 

    Christmas Paper Chain Craft

    Supplies you will need:

    • construction paper: red, brown, tan, green and white
    • tape
    • glue stick
    • scissors
    • ruler
    • markers: brown, black and red
    • googly eyes, 3 sets
    supplies to make a paper chain

    Instructions

    To make this Christmas Paper Chain Craft, start by cutting 2 strips of tan & one strip of brown paper about 2 inches by 8.5 inches. Don't worry about the measurement being exact, as long as all 3 strips are the same.

    Add eyes and a nose to the center of your one tan strip which will become Santa. Add eyes, a smile and a big red nose to the brown strip. You guessed it, this one will be Rudolph. Draw eyes, a nose and a mouth on the last tan strip, which will become an elf.

    three strips of paper with googly eyes

    To finish making the Santa, cut a beard out of the white paper and a hat out of red paper. To embellish the red hat, cut a little white paper for the bottom and top. Make the shapes of these squiggly like a cloud. Santa still needs a smile, so draw a smile on the beard with a red marker. Attach the beard to Santa with the glue stick.

    paper santa craft

    Curl the Santa strip around and use tape to secure it into a loop. Now it's time to put Santa's hat on. Attach it with a piece of tape on the back, so that the hat sticks up.

    santa paper strip

    To complete Rudolph, cut two antlers out of brown construction paper. I find it easier to draw some basic antlers onto brown construction paper and cut them out.

    making a rudolph craft

    Like you did with the Santa, you'll use the tape to secure the strip into a loop then glue the bottoms of the antlers to the strip so they stick up. Now Rudolph is ready to lead that sleigh!

    rudolph paper chain

    To make your cute little elf, cut out two pointed oval ears and a pointed green hat. Cut out a little white circle pom pom and attach it to the top of the elf's hat for embellishment. Secure the ears to the sides of the strip with the glue stick so they stick out on the sides.

    elf paper craft

    Attach the elf's hat to the back of the strip with tape so that it stands up from the loop. Then, use some tape to secure the strip into a loop.

    elf paper craft

    Now your adorable Christmas friends are ready. The next thing to do is to form them into a Christmas Paper Chain Craft.

    santa, reindeer and elf craft

    In order to create the chain to attach all of the characters together, you will cut two more strips of red and green paper, the same size as the ones you made before.

    santa reindeer elf and paper and scissors

    Place the green paper strip through the Santa and reindeer and tape it to secure it into a loop.

    santa paper craft

    Place the red strip through the reindeer and the elf, and tape it to secure into a loop.

    christmas paper chain

    Now your Christmas Paper Chain Craft is complete and ready for hanging! For more fun paper chain ideas check out this paper chain snowman from ABCs to ACTs.

    christmas paper chain

               

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    1. Holly

      December 12, 2018 at 4:19 pm

      What a fun Christmas craft for kids. Thanks for the ideas!!

    2. Katherine

      December 12, 2018 at 12:44 pm

      This is absolutely adorable and such a great craft to be able to hang in the house too! Definitely doing this with my niece soon. 🙂

    3. Ashlen

      December 12, 2018 at 10:56 am

      So much patience for that! LOL but those came out so adorable!

    4. Amber

      December 12, 2018 at 7:14 am

      OMG this is so fun! Def a great craft to do with the kids before Christmas.

    5. Nikla Lam

      December 11, 2018 at 11:27 am

      What a cute craft just in time for Christmas! I think my boys would love to do this craft.

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