5 Easy Christmas Crafts for Students With a Creative Mind
Christmas is coming, and if you’re looking to build that community feel at university, creating easy Christmas crafts for students could be an enjoyable way to spend time with your crowd. Designing and making crafts is a great way to spend time together, to make Christmas presents for your loved ones that show you really care and keeps the costs down at an expensive time of year.
We’ve helped you before with how to create the perfect Halloween treat bag, and ideas for Christmas gifts, but going crafty is sometimes the best way to go!
Origami Christmas Trees
What’s more relaxing than taking part in some origami? Origami can feel like an active form of mindful meditation, repetitive actions, precision, and a focus that can help you to switch off the outside noise and to focus only on the present.
Take some different sizes of coloured paper (green, white, and red paper add to the festive décor).
Cut the paper into squares – the size will depend on how big you want the trees to be.
Fold the paper – corner to corner to produce a triangle, then in half to create a smaller triangle. Open the paper back out and fold in half to create a rectangle, and again to create a square. Unfold to show the crease lines formed.
Form a diamond – tuck the two sides towards the centre to create a diamond shape.
Form a kite shape – fold in the left and right side flaps to the centre line on both sides.
Fold the edges – fold one side at a time towards the centre of the kite. Repeat with all four sides.
Cut the bottom triangle – cut off the bottom of the triangle of the kite shape, the open tip, not the folded tip.
Spread out the flaps – spread the flaps out slightly to create a straight-edged tree.
Cut the horizontal lines – cut lines into each of the 6 flaps, halfway towards the centre of each flap.
Fold cuts down – fold the cut lines down to create small triangles, repeated around the 6 sides of the tree.
Stack to create the tree – for larger trees, stack the completed folded paper on top of each other to create a stacked origami Christmas tree.
Confetti ornaments for Christmas trees
Making confetti ornaments of baubles for Christmas trees is a quick, easy, and fun way to make crafts. All you need is some paper, ribbon, glue, scissors, a pencil, and something circular to trace.
Trace a circle – place the circular item on top of your chosen paper and trace out 6+ circles (however many you want to create ruffles around the bauble).
Cut out circles – take your scissors and cut the ribbon into the preferred length.
Fold the circle – fold the circle in half to create a semicircle, glue along the back of the semicircle fold and press the other folded semicircle together.
Attach the ribbon – place a dot of glue at the end of the bauble you want to attach the ribbon to, and press one end of the ribbon to it.
Create a loop – place another dot of glue on the other side of the ribbon, pressing the opposite end to it to create a loop for the tree branch.
Create a rounded bauble – Finish gluing the semicircles together to create a rounded bauble. At the base of the ribbon, glue and fix a little ornament, like a crown shape, for example, to add a finishing touch.
DIY Christmas stockings
Stocking fillers are an easy way to buy presents on a budget. Putting a Christmas stocking together for a friend or loved one means filling it with cheap, little treats that they love. You can truly personalise it with their favourite sweets, little books, toiletries, a candle, whatever you can do to personalise the experience. It also means that you can hang a stocking and have that festive vibe for a week or two in the run-up to Christmas, a reminder of the joy to come.
Why not take things one step further and create a DIY Christmas stocking? A festive and quirky stocking that is a welcoming treat to Christmas and can be reused every year. You can either sew and stitch your chosen fabric together or you can glue or staple fabric together, depending on how experienced you are. Add photos, ribbons, lettering, anything you like to make it stand out.
DIY Christmas coasters
A quick and easy Christmas craft that adds colour to the Christmas table, can use leftover fabric, and offers a personalised gift. Buy some cheap burlap coasters; you can find these at a DIY or homecraft store in most towns. Take a rubber stamp and choose a design that fits the gift and the recipients of the gift. It’s as simple as stamping the existing burlap coasters and letting them dry. It’s a quick and easy Christmas craft that also fits a student budget.
Make a Christmas wreath.
One of the most popular and easy Christmas crafts for students is making a Christmas wreath. You can make one on a student budget for sure, to be placed on your student apartment door or to gift to your family and place on the front door when you arrive home. All you need is some wire, ribbon, and whichever route you want to take with the decorations. It’s a great way to upcycle old Christmas decorations and to do your bit for sustainability at a time of year that suffers from a lot of waste.
Choose the classic foliage, pinecones and holly option, ribbons and bows, or maybe try something a little different, like a picture wreath that takes all the photos you’d planned to put into photo albums, tape them together and create a sentimental Christmas décor.
Wrapping Up
What are your own personal Insta-worthy, crafty ideas for the winter? We’ve put together these easy Christmas crafts for students as an idea, some inspiration for you, but we’re sure you’ve got your own Christmas gift ideas. Let us know what you plan to do this year to make gifts for friends and family and to keep your costs low.
It means more to make something with your own hands as a gift, and it truly evokes the spirit of Christmas. What are your favourite easy Christmas crafts for students to try out this festive break?