The holiday time is here now and the kids are out of school for the holiday vacation. The holidays are less exciting as people grow older, but it’s of supreme excitement to young kids. While anticipating Christmas day, kids can get awfully bored. Alternating between writing projects and crafts projects may be the no-cost answer to you child’s boredom.

How about writing Santa a letter and sending it to the North Pole? Just print out a few pages of Christmas writing paper and half the work is already done. Just find an envelope and pop it into the nearest mailbox. Your child may want the Santa writing paper, or may prefer to have the Nativity scene writing paper or an Angel or Sled. The alternative is to draw your own writing paper or let the child draw their own personalized writing paper.

Origami (折り紙) is an old Japanese art form. It works with paper and when folded this way and that, is made into a work of art.

Some Origami paper works are fairly easy. The Origami paper rose is one of the easiest and with the green leaves and stems, will work great as a bouquet of paper roses. There are more difficult origami crafts and ebooks on the subject can be found online. Some really great artwork can be created using toilet paper and the dollar bill. Toilet paper roses in a dollar bill vase may be just the present someone is looking for. Children may like an entire menagerie of dollar bill creatures in a basket. Grown-ups like dollar bill trinkets, too and a dollar bill origami sculpture will be treasured as priceless.

Whether you celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah, there are activities for children’s crafts that are very easy, so that even small children or adults can put the Origami candle and candleholder together, or cut out the paper dolls and clothing. There are several ethnicities and several wardrobes of paper clothing. The candle can be used for all three holidays. Children will love spending time with these arts and crafts and the projects will keep them busy while waiting for that special Christmas morning.