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This cardboard reindeer craft is super festive, perfect for Christmas, adorable and easy! This cardboard reindeer craft if perfect for kids of all ages, including preschoolers and kindergarten kids as well as older kids. Making a reindeer out of cardboard and clothes pins is a great Christmas craft at home or in the classroom!

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Easy Cardboard Reindeer Craft

I just ADORE crafting at Christmas time! The lead up, the holidays and the weeks after are some of the most blissful for children…. and grown ups. Christmas Crafts For Kids don’t come much cuter than this simple cardboard and clothespin reindeer – fun to make and fun to talk to.

Don’t just make one reindeer craft! Make all eight reindeer – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen and Rudolf of course.

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Supplies Needed for Cardboard Reindeer Craft

Cardboard
Wooden clothespins
Piece of ribbon
Glitter
Paint
Black sharpie

How To Make This Festive Adorable Cardboard Reindeer Craft

Step 1

Start by cutting the reindeer body out of thick cardboard.

Step 2

With a brush or some cotton buds dot some polka dots along the reindeer’s body.

Step 3

Use your black marker to draw on the eyelashes and nose. (enlarge and print this photo to use as a cutting template if you want)

Step 4

Brush the sides of the clothespins with craft glue and sprinkle on some glitter. Leave aside to dry.

Step 5

Then just sit the cardboard body onto the peg legs and tie a pretty ribbon around the reindeer’s neck.

Voila, one pretty reindeer to make the holidays even sweeter xx

Christmas Crafts For Kids: Simple Cardboard Reindeer

This cardboard reindeer craft is the perfect Christmas craft! It's colorful, fun, cute, sparkly! Perfect for kids of all ages.

Materials

Cardboard
Wooden clothespins
Piece of ribbon
Glitter
Paint
Black sharpie.

Instructions

Start by cutting the reindeer body out of thick cardboard.
With a brush or some cotton buds dot some polka dots along the reindeer’s body.
Use your black marker to draw on the eyelashes and nose.
Brush the sides of the clothespins with craft glue and sprinkle on some glitter.
Leave aside to dry.
Then just sit the cardboard body onto the peg legs and tie a pretty ribbon around the reindeer’s neck.