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Moving Eyes Reindeer Craft

Enjoy our Moving Eyes Reindeer Craft with the kids this Christmas. A super fun and easy Christmas puppet craft that will bring joy and laughter.

We have a new addition to our growing library of moving eyes crafts – the one and only Rudolph! These crafts are fantastic tools for inspiring creativity and story-telling, and this super cute Reindeer Craft will add to all the favorite songs (Rudolph the red nose reindeer) and stories.

This easy Christmas craft is easy enough to be enjoyed independently, with only simple cutting and painting, and the interactive element brings an extra dimension of play, meaning it’s ideal for pre-schoolers and school early years.

Perfect for a group session to create a display for the classroom, or as part of a festive crafting afternoon at home, this craft takes minimal effort and supplies, but creates maximum fun!

Moving Eyes Reindeer Craft: A fun and interactive Christmas craft for kids. This simple Reindeer Puppet and paper toy is a fantastic craft to support story-telling and your children's favorite Christmas songs.

How to Make the Moving Eyes Reindeer Craft

Materials

Cardstock
Paint or Coloring Medium
Scissors
Glue Stick

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Watch the Moving Eyes Reindeer Craft video for Step-by-Step Instructions:

Let’s Make a Reindeer!

Image showing a hand painting the reindeer template.

Color and Decorate the Reindeer Template

Color in the Reindeer template using your favorite paints, crayons or pens. Why not give him a jolly red nose, just like Rudolph? You could even use some eco-glitter to give an extra shimmer to his antlers!

Image showing a reindeer painted and cut out.

Cut out the Reindeer Elements

Once you’ve finished coloring Reindeer in and everything is dry, carefully cut out the elements from the template.

Image showing hands adding antlers and ears to the reindeer's head.

Assemble the Reindeer

Next, assemble the Reindeer by affixing the antlers and ears.

Image showing an assembled reindeer head with 3 paper strips. One long and wide, two others short and thin.

Cut 3 Paper Strips

Then cut one strip lengthwise from a sheet of red A4 card – it needs to be the same thickness as the rectangle eyes on the template.

Finally, cut two more thin strips of card, each three or four inches long.

Image showing a hand gluingglued to the center of the largest paper strips.

Affix the Eyes to the Largest Strip

Stick the rectangle eyes into the middle of the strip of red card.

Image showing hands affixing the supporting paper strips to the back of the reindeers head.

Secure the Supporting Strips

Turn the Reindeer over. Now stick one of the thinner card strips vertically over the left eye – this will support Rudloph’s moving eyes. Stick the other strip in the same way over the right eye.

Image showing hands sliding the largest paper strip underneath the supporting paper strips.

Thread the Moving Eyes Strip

Now carefully slide the strip of eyes underneath the two thin support strips – be gentle!

The Moving Eyes Reindeer Craft is Complete

It’s time to play! Do you think the Reindeer is looking around to see if anyone spotted him with Santa?! Have fun making silly Reindeer faces and don’t forget to share your pictures and tag us on social media!

And for more Moving Eyes fun, take a look at our Santa and Elf moving eyes crafts.