• Kids will like making these sled crafts as much as they like playing with the real thing.boy with sled image by Piter Pkruger from Fotolia.com
  
  Christmas is a perfect time to help children make crafts. They can use them to decorate their room or the house–or give them as gifts during the holidays. Sled crafts are easy and add detail to any winter decor. Older children can complete these sled crafts by themselves–younger children will need adult supervision.
  
  

Candy Cane Sled

• This sled uses typical Christmas candy. Two candy canes create the runners for the sled, while a chocolate bar is the platform of the sled. Use a hot glue gun to attach the pieces of the sled. Once it's dry, glue or tape decoratively wrapped Christmas candies or chocolate on top of the sled to make it look like it is piled with presents. You can also place a foil-wrapped Santa chocolate in font of the sled.
  
  

Sled and Reindeer

• Print out the template of a sled and nine reindeer. If you don't want to include Rudolph, only print eight reindeer. Cut out the pictures and proceed to decorate them. You can use crayons or markers as well as glitter, yarn, paint or wrapping paper and ribbon. Make sure to glue one piece of string from the sled to each reindeer–these become reins. Tie little bells on the string for authenticity. Hang it on a wall or along a mantle as festive decoration.
  
  

Craft Stick Sled

• This craft uses regular, mini and jumbo sized craft sticks. Paint the sticks the colors that you want your sled to be. Go with traditional red and green or get more creative. Paint two of the jumbo sticks silver–these are the runners of the sled.
  
  Line up three jumbo craft sticks side-by-side, with a regular size craft stick on either side and glue them together. Glue the mini sticks to the bottom in the opposite direction, then glue the runners to the bottom. Glue a piece of yarn onto the front of the sled as a pull rope. Craft sticks are versatile, so you can decorate them with paint or glue little jewels or sequins onto them. You can also decorate with glitter. Simply use your imagination to decorate these miniature sleds.