Wintery weather making you wreath-ink your day in favour of indoor activities? Or just looking for a fun way to bond with your little elves over the holidays? Here’s a Christmassy craft that’s fun to do and will result in a cute and colourful decoration!

What you will need:

• A large sheet of cardboard (opened-up cereal boxes are great).
• Between 6 and 9 sheets of green card, depending on the size of the wreath you want to make and the size of your youngsters’ hands. We used 9 sheets – some dark green, some light green.
• A sheet of red card.
• A ribbon.
• A pen.
• Scissors.
• A glue stick.
• A holepunch.
• A round dinnerplate.
• A round cereal bowl.

How to do it:

1. Draw around the child’s hand on your cardboard and cut out the shape. This will be a template for the wreath’s “holly leaves”!
2. Place the cardboard hand shape onto one of your sheets of green card, draw around it and cut it out. Repeat this until you’ve created all of the “leaves” you want.
3. On more cardboard, place your dinner plate upside down, draw around it and cut out the resulting circle.
4. Carefully place your bowl upside down right in the middle of the cardboard circle, making sure the spacing is even all the way round.
5. Draw around the bowl, then carefully cut it out so that you’re left with a cardboard ring.
6. Spread some glue onto the “heel” of each green hand-shape, then stick them onto the cardboard ring at an angle, with each one overlapping the next. Watch the video to see how we do it. (Top Tip: don’t glue the whole hand shape or the outside edges will be sticky!)
7. With the lid on, stand your glue stick on your red card and draw around it as many times as you like to make circles. Cut these out: they’re your holly berries.
8. Glue the berries onto your wreath in groups of three.
9. Optional (but adorable): print and cut out some friendly Pudsey faces and stick them on, too. Alternatively, the young crafters could draw pictures of their own faces for this purpose.
10. Using the hole punch, punch a hole in the top of the wreath in order to hang it up.
11. Thread the ribbon through the hole, create a loop and tie it at the top.
12. Your handy Christmas wreath is complete!