Creating a Festive Craft and Play Space

Hi, friends! Welcome to our girls’ creative space. This is their little corner of our home where they spend literally hours at a time. Half of this little creativity corner is dedicated to books, and comfy space to read, and the other half is where the craft table and supplies are. Christmas is in a few short weeks, and I wanted to share how I’ve curated a space that I hope invokes play, creativity, and lots of holiday cheer.

The Reading Area

I store and then pull out new books at the beginning of each new season or holiday. They each have comfy plush chairs, reindeer blankets, and an open area to pull the books out on the floor. I use photo ledges as book shelves that allow the girls to easily see their reading options. Mine are from IKEA, but I found an almost identical pair HERE. Above the shelves are two wire organizers that I use to display their finished artwork–they’re from HomeGoods.

For shelf styling, I used a combination of the shimmer snowflake garland from our Christmas Occasion Kits, and the Hot Cocoa & Peppermint Candy Felt Ball Garland from Pearl and Jane. The pink book baskets are also from HomeGoods. The Santa pillow is from Pottery Barn Kids. All of our holiday books are in my Amazon shop HERE.

The Craft Space

For the craft space the girls have a simple four-seater table. We love to paint and get MESSY, so I typically cover the table in craft paper, to prevent any intense destruction of the table. This also makes for extremely easy cleanup, as you can just scoop up all the mess. For the Christmas season, I have replaced the craft paper with wrapping paper. Wrapping paper is inexpensive, and you likely already have a few rolls stored away. It’s an instant way to turn up the magic. We also keep a paper roll dispenser on the table, that the girls are able to easily pull for coloring.

We store a variety of arts and crafts supplies in wire wall baskets right beside the craft table. This year I added in some fun handcrafted wooden signs from Finding Foley and Chalk Designs by Me.

The bottom basket contains holiday activity books, lined glitter notebooks, blank notebooks, and glitter glue. I love all of the shimmer, as they remind me of Christmas tinsel. Up top is where we store our paint pods, paintbrushes, watercolors, scented pens (which totally look like candy canes, and chalk-o-rama crayons. We also have a couple of smaller Christmas containers that hold smaller items. I threw in two Ooly 3-d butterfly colorables. With the weather being colder, these are a perfect craft for time inside. A craft and dress-up all in one!

Their Christmas Tree

We choose a real Christmas tree as our main tree, but this one is dedicated completely to the girls. They choose how and what they want to decorate it with. We currently have paper snowflakes, furry monogram ornaments, and paper mache ornaments that the girls painted themselves. We plan to add more craft ornaments and garlands throughout the season.

You don’t need a huge amount of space, or to spend a ton of money to make a holiday creativity corner. You just need to make room to get cozy, bring in a few good books, your own holiday traditions, and craft supplies to match the mood!

xo
Shakira