Danielle's Place of Crafts and Activities

Teaching Children Through Crafts and Activities

Welcome to Danielle's Place where you will find thousands of free crafts for kids designed to make learning fun.
Many of the crafts and activities are Bible-based and are great for use in Sunday school, preschool, home school, and on special occasions.

Home Page

Home School Materials

Who We Are

comments

Search

links

Join Today

New Year Crafts for Kids

 

Happy New Year Card Craft for KidsFree Happy New Year's Pop Out Card Craft for Kids

What you will need: Card stock, Hi-Liter markers, paper glue, and scissors.

What to do:

1. Print out the pattern onto card stock. Cut around the edges of the card and fold it in half and unfold. (Printing Problems?)

2. Color the smiley faces and then cut them out using an Exacto knife (Adults only). Cut around the outside of the smiley faces in the middle of the card leaving them connected between the tiny separating lines.

3. Fold the card in half again while pushing in on the smiley faces from the outside folded edge of the card. This will make the smiley faces pop out inside the card. Flatten out the folded card.

4. Glue the card to another piece of colorful card stock but do not glue where the smiley faces are.

5. To finish decorate the outside of the card with smiley face stickers or anything else you would like to use.


 

2007 CalendarNew Year's 2010 Calendar of Scriptures - Just print out the pages, color them, and staple them together.

This craft is available to members only.

Comments about this craft from subscribers:

I used the calendar for a class project. Since I have preschoolers the picture was a little hard for them to color but it still worked out well. The kids placed birthday stickers on the birthdays of each class member and after the calendar was completed they took it home. I really like mine too! Helps me keep up with their birthdays. Pat Vines
My 4-6th graders loved the Scripture Calendar. In fact, we have one hanging in the classroom, as well as the ones the kids took home. This was a great craft idea for starting off the new year. Sandy Wilson

The kids had a great time coloring them and putting them together. They each decided to include there own birthdays on the calendars (to make it a bit more personal). They also got to decorate them anyway they wanted to. Some fancy and some just plain. It was there calendar that they could do whatever they wanted with it. Afterwards we made a cover for our calendars. I really enjoy homemade calendars and I was so glad to see I wasn't the only one. Even my youngest daughter begged me to make her very own just for her room. At first I thought of letting them do a page a month but decided to have them do them all at once and make it into a book. We had great fun making them. I put two holes on top of the page and they tied a string on them to keep them together. They turned out great. Each one created just for them. Love Always, Jeanie

I work with children from ages 2 to 5th Grade. I have used several of the crafts in all of my classes. One project that we have used several times now was the Lion and Lamb 2003 Poster and the 2003 Calendar of Scripture and Wise Sayings. I took a 12 x 18 sheet of construction paper and stapled the calendars on the right side of the paper and then I made the numbers smaller and the Lion and the Lamb and glued them on the left side beside the calendar. In my second grade class we had the children write down everyone's birthday on their own calendar. The children have really loved the crafts that I have gotten from your web site and they are so so so much better then what they write in books. Thank you to you and your daughter for all the hard work you have done. This has been the best money I have sent. Thank You Peggy

Thank you for the 2005 Scripture Calendar.  I used it for my Sunday School class the first Sunday of 2005.  The kids loved having their own calendar.  I gave each of them the foam cutouts of different religious shapes, seasonal shapes, etc. to decorate each month’s page.  We went through the entire year and filled in each classmates birthday as well as other important events at our church.  That was a craft that they can enjoy all year long.  I love your page!  It is great! Melissa, New Liberty


New Year's Folded Desk Calendar Craft

Frog CalendarThis craft can be used any time of the year and would make great Christmas gifts. The Bible verse, "In thy name shall they rejoice all the day" is printed at the bottom of the calendar stand.

What you will need: Card stock (Heavy Paper), scissors, and colored pencils or highlighter markers.

What to do:

1. Print out calendar pages that about 2 1/2" square and cut them apart. (A pattern for the calendar pages is available to members.)

2. Cut card stock 4 1/4" wide by 10" and fold it into a triangle shape as shown in the picture. (A pattern is available to members.) Glue the triangle shape together.

3. Draw pictures to glue to the top of the calendar or use stickers, or use pictures from other sources.

4. Glue the calendar pages to the triangle shape.


New Years baby poster craftNew Year Baby Card Craft

Celebrate the New Year with Fun Crafts - Make this cute New Years baby. All you need is paper and pretty confetti.

What you will need: Card stock (heavy paper), crayons, colored pencils, or markers, clear drying glue, and confetti. You can buy confetti at party shops for less than $2.00.

What to do:

1. Print out the picture on to card stock and write the new year date on the balloon. (Printing Problems?)

2. Color the picture.

3. Spread a clear drying glue in the areas you want confetti. Sprinkle confetti over the glue. Place the bigger pieces of confetti to make it looked spread out evenly over the picture. Put more on the bottom of the picture so that it looks like it has fallen to the floor.


Lion and Lamb New Year's Poster - The lion and the lamb lying down next to each in this poster represent the wish for peace in the coming year.

 

2005 Lion and Lamb Poster New Years CraftWhat you will need: Poster board, card stock, crayons, or markers and scissors.

What to do:

1.Draw the numbers for the current year onto card stock making each number as big as one piece of card stock. Outline them with a black marker and color the inside. Cut them out and glue them on a piece of poster board.

2. Draw a picture of a lamb and a lion lying next to each, color them, and cut them out. Glue them onto the tops of the numbers.

A pattern for this craft available to members of Danielle's Place. Click here to print out the numbers, lamb, and lion patterns.

 


New Years Party Hats CraftNew Year Party Hats - These hats can be used as a craft at your New Years Party or you can print the pattern out smaller and use them on your table as place setting. Just print the name of each person who attends your party on the back of the hat.

What you will need: Bright colors of card stock, New Years confetti, glue or tape, glitter paints, and scissors.

What to do:

1. Roll your paper into a cone shape. Cut off the extras paper at the bottom of the cone shape to make it rounded. Use your first hat as a pattern to cut out more hats from different colors of paper.

2. Cut out pretty shapes to glue onto the top of the hats or use ribbon and other decorative objects.

3. Glue the hats together and then glue on sequins or use glitter paint to decorate them.

Patterns for this craft are available to members of Danielle's Place.


New Years Piñata Craft New Year Piñata Craft

What you will need: Large brown grocery bag, silver spray paint or other shiny paint, gold and silver ribbon, string, markers, tape, and things to put in the pinata.

What to do:

  1. Paint or spray paint a large grocery bag with gold or silver paint.  Let it dry.
  2. Print out he Happy New Year! pattern, cut it out, and color it.
  1. Glue the pattern onto the front of the bag. 
  2. Tape gold and silver ribbon to the bottom of the bag so that it hangs down. 
  3. Fill the bag with goodies.
  4. Tie the top of the bag closed. Punch a hole in the top and tie a string to the bag through the hole so that the piñata can be hung up.

Join Today


Bible LessonsTwenty-six Bible Lessons for home school, each based on a different animal.


Sample Lessons
from
The Resource Room

Fruit of the Spirit Puppet

Fruit of the Spirit
Sunday School Lesson

Watchdog color Sheet

Watchdogs
Sunday School Lesson

Ant Craft

Consider the Ants

 

Ladybug Craft

Ladybug Friends

Raven Craft - for Elijah and the Ravens Sunday School lesson

Elijah and the Ravens

The Prodigal Son Sunday School Lesson

The Big Mistake
The Story of the Prodigal Son

The Lord is My Shepherd Craft

 

The Lost Sheep

Bug Buddies
Studies

Bug Buddies Study


Bible LessonsTwenty-six Bible Lessons for home school, each based on a different animal.


Sample Lessons
from
The Resource Room

Fruit of the Spirit Puppet

Fruit of the Spirit
Sunday School Lesson

 

[Home] [Craft Index] [Bible Lessons] [VBS] [Learning Fun ] [Links]