Free Printable Reindeer Craft

This free printable reindeer craft is a great way to help little hands practice their fine motor skills this holiday season. It's a no-prep craft that doesn't require construction paper - just regular printer paper!

Pick from two free reindeer templates - one in color and the other in black and white. I hope you have so much fun with this paper craft!

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This free printable reindeer template is a great way for young children to improve their scissor skills, hand-eye coordination, finger strength, and handwriting.

No matter which version of the craft you use, your child or student will get to make his or her own reindeer and practice tracing and writing the word "reindeer."

This fun craft is perfect for a classroom Christmas party or as an activity to go with reading a book like The Littlest Reindeer

If you're looking for an easy way to keep your kids or students busy while getting into the holiday spirit, be sure to grab the Christmas Crafts Bundle! You'll get 10 different crafts with a total of 22 pages for one very low price. The bundle includes a paper elf craft, Santa, a sleigh, and more fun Christmas crafts.

Craft supplies needed for the cute reindeer craft

You probably already have most of the materials needed to make your fun reindeer craft. Here's what you'll need:

• Your free templates (look for the download link lower down in the post)
• Printer access and paper or card stock
• Child-safe scissors
• Glue stick
• Crayons or colored pencils
• Popsicle sticks, optional, to turn your reindeer's head into a puppet
• Pom pom to make an extra cute red nosed reindeer, optional

How to make a reindeer's craft Christmas craft

Making your simple craft is easy, even for a child's hands. Here's what to do:

Grab your PDF file from lower down in the post, then print one copy of the page you want to use for each child making the craft. There are two versions of the reindeer craft template - one in color and the other in black and white.

​Have your child color the reindeer's face before cutting out the pieces, if you're using the coloring page version.

Cut out each of the template pieces. You'll have a head, a mouth with nose attached, two ears, and two antlers. Younger kids may want to cut straight across the two antler points instead of cutting down in between them.

Using the reference picture as a guide, glue the reindeer's mouth to the front of the face. Ears and antlers can be glued to the front or back .

Glue the reindeer face to a craft stick to make a cute puppet. This is optional, but fun!

Simple paper reindeer craft PDF file download area

Both versions of the reindeer craft are saved in PDF format in the same file.

This printable is licensed for personal use, including classroom use.

You are not licensed to redistribute or sell the print outs or files to others. Please refer friends and colleagues to this post to download their own copies.

Looking for more Christmas activities for kids of all ages? Make sure to check out the Christmas printables below: