Baby Jesus In A Manger Craft for Kids [Free PDF Template]

Your little ones will love creating a nativity scene, complete with cute stable animals watching over Jesus asleep on the hay. This baby Jesus in a manger craft will bring the Christmas story to life in a way children easily understand. This sweet project will be a keepsake they will be excited to show and tell loved ones about.

More Christmas fun awaits with these other Christmas crafts for kids. They’ll help keep the season merry and bright with a collection of festive ideas.

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Simple Nativity Craft For Kids

Creating this swaddled baby Jesus is a hands-on way for kids to celebrate the heart of Christmas. Children will assemble a peaceful scene featuring Jesus resting in the hay, cuddled among a friendly sheep and donkey, all under the shining star of Bethlehem.

Faith-filled learning is easy to bring into homes and Sunday school classes with this easy activity that pairs with the nativity story. Only a few basic materials are needed for this manger craft to become a memorable part of seasonal lessons or family traditions.

Encourage your young artists to use our free template along with construction paper, markers, scissors, and glue to bring this sweet Bethlehem scene to life.

Supplies

• Colored cardstock or construction paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• Markers
• White Pen
• Baby Jesus In A Manger Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)

Directions

Start by downloading and printing the template. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this baby Jesus to life!

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Grab your markers and start coloring the template pieces. This is a great time to help your child slow down, choose their colors, and fill in each shape using gentle strokes.

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Continue coloring the rest of the template pieces using markers.

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Grab your black background paper. This is going to be our night sky. Using a white paint pen or marker, invite your child to add stars all over the page.

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Continue to draw dots, lines, and sparkly shapes all over the background to create a beautiful night sky. This step is perfect for encouraging creativity, and there is absolutely no wrong way to do it.

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Once your sky is finished, let’s build the manger. Look for the manger piece, and glue it near the bottom center of the paper.

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Next, find the roof piece. Glue them at an angle on top of the manger base to form the roof.

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Now it’s time for the star of the scene! Glue Baby Jesus in the Manger right in the center of the stable. This is a wonderful moment to pause and talk about who Baby Jesus is in a simple, loving way.

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Find the sheep piece and glue it next to the manger.

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Next, grab the donkey piece and glue it on the other side of the manger.

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Lastly, look for the smiling star and glue it above the roof in the night sky. Kids love this step because the star makes everything feel magical and finished.

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Take a moment to admire the finished craft together. Your child created a beautiful Baby Jesus in a Manger scene using patience, creativity, and growing fine motor skills. If your kids enjoyed this activity, be sure to check out our other nativity crafts for kids for more meaningful, hands on fun.

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Christmas Books for Kids

Dasher: This wonderfully illustrated Christmas book for kids gives you the back story on one of Santa’s favorite reindeer, Dasher! Girls will especially love to read this since Dasher is a girl.

Construction Site On Christmas Night: Fans of the fun characters of the construction site books have to add this Christmas-themed story to their collection. See how the trucks get ready for Christmas!

How To Catch An Elf: Kids everywhere love the silliness of this Christmas story. The rhymes and the illustrations will draw the kids in as well. This is a Christmas book kids will want to read every year!

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Christmas Kindergarten Craft

Girl Elf Handprint Craft – Your jolly little helpers will have a blast turning their handprints into this girl elf’s long locks. Their tiny hands will become her hair so each elf will be unique. This fun project sneaks in fine motor practice and gets kids thinking about other ways their hands can transform into something totally new.

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Paper Strip Reindeer Craft – Kids will have a ho ho whole lot of fun turning simple paper strips into a cheerful reindeer friend. After they’re done snipping and gluing, they can give their reindeer a bright Rudolph nose or a cool Comet nose. Just grab the free template and supplies for instant festive fun!

Christmas Tree Paper Bag Puppet Craft

Gingerbread Name Craft – Let your little bakers whip up a gingerbread boy or girl with gumdrops that spell out their names. Kids can use letter recognition to put the letters in their name in order or write them for extra handwriting practice. Use our free editable template so each gingerbread art is personalized.

Christmas Tree Tissue Paper Craft – Your decorators in training can get some practice with this Christmas tree made out of tissue paper. It’ll keep tiny hands busy scrunching and gluing tissue paper to create their tree then decorate it with colorful ornaments. It makes festive art and works the muscles in their hands, too!

Christmas Ideas For School

Keep the Santa chasing fun going with our How to Catch Santa worksheets. Once the story ends, kids can jump into these book companion activities that feel more like holiday fun than learning.

They’ll snip, trace, spot the letter C, complete patterns, and boost their vocabulary. The set includes four fun worksheets plus flashcards inspired by the book’s illustrations. Download the free printables and grab a pencil and crayons to get started!

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Holiday mischief goes hand in hand with The Grinch and these Grinch worksheets are a great companion to the favorite holiday book or movie.

These engaging activities blend learning with festive fun as kids practice handwriting, letter recognition, fine motor skills, and scissor skills.

Grab the free printables and let them conquer the Letter G maze, label The Grinch, and tackle a handwriting page filled with ‘Gg’s for Grinch.

Related: Santa Worksheets

These Christmas do a dot printables will keep little hands happily dotting their way through the season. Preschoolers, pre-k, and kindergarten kids will color, count, and spot letters with their dot markers across 25 pages of festive fun.

Santas, trees, and holiday surprises appear with every cheerful dab, and are a great way for fine motor skills and focus to quietly grow. Just print, hand over the markers, and let the merry dotting begin!

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What do elves munch on between gift wrapping marathons? Fruit cake, of course! Kids will crack up as they “feed” Santa’s hungry helper in this elf letter recognition activity that sneaks in plenty of ABC practice.

Preschoolers and kindergarteners will have hands-on fun as they name letters, explore beginning sounds, and match capital and lowercase fruit cake cards before delivering each tasty piece to the elf. Holiday learning has never been so delicious!

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Free Baby Jesus In A Manger Template

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