This Rudolph Paper Plate Craft for Kids is so festive and fun, you’ll want to sing your favorite Christmas Rudolph song. 

I love Christmas music and I love that some radio stations play it right after Thanksgiving. Now I understand if you work at a business that plays it all day everyday, you might get sick of it. But I think it’s magical.

When I was younger, I used to have the Hanson’s Snowed In Christmas CD. I played that baby so much, jamming’ out in my room, posters of Zac everywhere. Haha! But now, I’m more of classic Christmas song type of person. I like, Deck the Halls, Mary Did You Know, Jingle Bell Rock and of course Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

Rudolph is a classic song that my whole family loves to sing along to. I grew up with the sayings after different parts of the song such as “like a light bulb” or “like Pinocchio.” My husband and son look at me like I’m crazy and tell me that’s not part of the song but it is, and I always thought it was the best part of our Christmas concerts when I was younger.

Since my whole family loves Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, I thought this Rudolph Paper Plate Craft for Kids would be a perfect Christmas craft.

How to make our Rudolph Paper Plate Craft for Kids

Materials:

• paper plates
• brown and tan acrylic craft paint
• paint brush
• large googly eyes
• brown pipe cleaners
• red tinsel pom-pom balls
• hot glue/hot glue gun

1. Lay out a piece of old newspaper or scrap paper and paint the top of your paper plate brown and let dry (have an adult use a hair dryer for quicker drying)
2. Fold in the sides so that the plate makes a point at the bottom.
3. Carefully glue the side flaps down onto the brown plate and paint the side flaps tan and let dry.
4. Glue two googly eyes towards the top center on the brown part of the plate for Rudolph’s nose and a red tinsel pom-pom ball onto the bottom point.
5. Fold two brown pipe cleaners in half and bend each side to make a set of antlers and glue them to the top of Rudolph’s head.

You might also like to make our other Christmas crafts:

• Rudolph Treat Bags – These Rudolph Treat Bags are filled with yummy chocolates and look like reindeer, now that’s festive.
• Color Your Own Ornaments for Christmas – These color your own ornaments are a great Christmas project, or package them with some markers and give them as a gift!
• How to Make a Bendable Elf on the Shelf -This 10 minute tutorial on how to make a bendable elf on the shelf is a life changer!