Make some fun paper reindeer This Christmas! These little guys look good as Christmas decorations, and while they don’t make super sturdy toys, if kids are gentle enough with them they can be used in imaginary play and games too.

If you follow this blog you might have noticed that I’ve been a little bit quiet lately. Super quiet, considering my favourite crafting occasion of the year is looming on the horizon. I adore Christmas crafts, and it is now less than one month until Christmas! That doesn’t leave a lot of time left to get my head full of ideas out into the blogosphere.

An absence of new crafts at Christmas is not at all like me, but there is a reason for it. I’ve been very busy designing a new series of Christmas paper crafts for our printables store, including an ebook of decorative paper crafts. I’m so excited that it’s finally finished!

These cute paper reindeer are one of the crafts from the ebook, and you can also buy them as a single product.

At the moment there is an opening special of 20% off the Christmas paper crafts ebook

How to make paper reindeer

These reindeer need to be printed out onto card stock or else they won’t stand up properly (I’ve tried them on ordinary paper myself).

I’ve used card stock in a rainbow of colours, but you could also print them onto white and decorate with coloured markers or onto brown with white antlers to look more realistic.

You will need:

• Card stock in your choice of colour
• Glue stick
• Scissors
• Ruler and blunt knife for scoring

How to:

Print the template out onto coloured card stock .
Score the fold lines (the dotted ones) by holding a ruler against them and running along them with a blunt butter knife. Scoring makes folding the paper very easy and will give you crisp, accurate folds.
Cut out the shapes of the body, head and antlers.
Fold along all the fold lines. This should be really easy after scoring them.
Glue the body into shape by placing glue on the tabs at the front and back of the body.
Glue the head into shape by folding the ears upwards, then bending the front part of the oval shape down towards the back part and gluing the side tabs
Attach the antlers to the back of the head
Glue the head to the body

You might notice that in the tutorial video I’ve cut the shapes out and then scored the fold lines. It doesn’t really matter which of these steps you do first.

All done! But your reindeer will definitely be needing a few friends, you can’t just have one can you?

Now they’re off to play some reindeer games!

You can buy the template here.

Video tutorial

More Reindeer Craft ideas:

• Make some fun Reindeer sculptures from pasta and pipe cleaners
• This paper roll reindeer is always popular
• Have you read The naughtiest Reindeer? It’s one of our favourite books and we’ve made a cute craft to go with it
• This handprint reindeer silhouette art idea is another of the printables available from our shop