This super-cute Rudolf craft can be made with children, in the classroom, or by adults to decorate the home or Christmas tree. Made with wooden slices, glittery antlers, and a bright red nose, it’s one of my favorite reindeer crafts!
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💖 Why You'll Love This Craft
- Adorable Holiday Decor: This craft creates a fun and festive ornament that adds charm to your Christmas tree.
- Simple & Fun for Kids: Easy for kids to make, with minimal materials, making it a perfect holiday activity.
- Personalized Touch: A great way for kids to make their own handmade gifts or keepsakes that can be cherished year after year..
🎨 Supplies Needed
- Wooden slices
- Brown and red glitter paper
- String
- Glue gun
- Brown paint
- Paint Brush
- Black marker pen
You could even add Christmas Greetings to the back of your Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer ornament.
More Rudolf craft ideas:
- Easy Rudolf Toddler Craft
- Reindeer Christmas Ornament
- Rudolf Christmas Pretzels
- Rudolf Tealight Ornament
🖌️ How To Make These Cute Rudolf Ornaments
- Step 1: To create these adorable Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer ornaments, start by placing your wooden slices on your surface. Paint one side of the wooden slice brown using your brown paint and paintbrush. Allow the piece to fully dry.
- Step 2: Whilst the wooden slices are drying, draw and cut out two sets of antlers for each reindeer ornament. Then cut out a large red nose for each Rudolf. Using your glue gun, glue the brown glitter antlers to the back (unpainted) side of your wooden slices. Glue the red nose onto the bottom half of the wooden slice.
- Step 3: Next, draw two eyes with your black marker pen. Draw a line under Rudolf’s nose to add a mouth!
- Step 4: The final part of the process is to thread a piece of string through the hole on your wooden slice. Your Rudolf craft is now ready to hang on the Christmas tree or in another location in the home.
These are super fun and easy Christmas decorations and I’m sure the kids will have plenty of fun making these in preschool or at home.
We love Christmas here at The Inspiration Edit and hope you have a merry and wonderful season! We have lots more fantastic Christmas decorations including these adorable Wooden Santa Ornaments. Check them out today - you will love them!
💡 Pro Tip: Let kids trace over one finished half to replicate the other side, reinforcing bilateral shape control and proportional copying through guided repetition.
🧑🎨 Expert Tips
- Shape Scaling Practice: Let kids create multiple antler shapes in different sizes first, then choose the best fit, building visual judgment around part-to-whole proportion.
- Symmetry Checkpoints: Teach children to hold their craft up and look for balance in antler and eye placement, strengthening awareness of visual symmetry.
- Size Matching: Encourage selecting nose and eye pieces that are relatively equal in size to avoid distractions from one side being visually heavier.
- Centerline Folding: Lightly fold the base vertically to mark a centerline—this guide helps children align Rudolf’s facial parts evenly on either side.
- Proportional Comparison: Ask kids to compare the size of each new part against the head before gluing, helping them spot imbalances and scale errors early.
- Adjustment Preview: Allow time for repositioning pieces before pressing down fully—this supports micro-adjustment habits that improve long-term layout skills.
💭 FAQs
Children learn that using fewer elements still creates meaning. It shows how basic layouts can still feel finished and visually satisfying without added extras.
Yes, choosing what not to include teaches them visual discipline. It helps kids understand that restraint often improves how a project looks overall.
By limiting shapes and parts, children learn to simplify. This shows how too many additions can distract from the main subject’s impact.
With only a few focused details, the design stays clear. Kids begin seeing how less clutter creates stronger and more effective results.
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Rudolf Christmas Craft: DIY Craft for Kids
Equipment
- Glue gun
Materials
- Wooden slices
- Brown glitter paper
- Red glitter paper
- String
- Brown paint
- Paint Brush
- Black marker pen
Instructions
- To create these adorable Rudolf ornaments you need to place your wooden slices on your surface.
- Paint one side of the wooden slice brown using your brown paint and paintbrush.
- Then, allow the piece to fully dry.
- Whilst the wooden slices are drying, draw and cut out two sets of antlers for each reindeer ornament.
- Next cut out a large red nose for each Rudolf
- Using your glue gun glue the brown glitter antlers to the back of your wooden slices.
- Glue the red nose onto the bottom half of the wood slice and draw two eyes with your black marker pen.
- Draw a line under Rudolf’s nose to add a mouth!
- The final part of the process is to thread a piece of string through the hole on your wooden slice.
- Your Rudolf Christmas craft is now ready to hang on the Christmas tree or in another location in the home.
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These are very cute and see pretty easy to make. Great post.
Where do you get the antlers from?
You make the antlers from the glitter paper.
How do you drill a hole in the wooden slices? Do you need a special drill from a craft store to do that? I noticed that the wood slices that are linked don't have holes in them already.
These ornaments are very cute, by the way 🙂
I actually bought ones with holes in already. Here is a link to wooden slices with holes! https://amzn.to/2OZa3Vv
Thanks so much!
These are adorable. Where can you find a template for the antlers? I am not good at drawing something freestyle. Also, where do you get the glitter paper?
Thanks!
Love this DIY ornament! They’re so freakin’ cute! My husband and I had a great time making these for our loved ones. Thank you!!