Best Handmade Christmas Card Ideas for 2025

If you're looking for handmade card ideas to do in the classroom or at home with the kids, we have a selection of ideas ranging from quick and easy that will only take 5 minutes to more adventurous card ideas.

Designing and making your own Christmas cards is the perfect activity to do with little ones to get into the Christmas spirit and teach them about spreading joy over the holiday period. We have plenty of ideas here, including cards featuring their favourite CBeebies characters like Bluey, JoJo & Gran Gran, Hey Duggee and Supertato. Take a look at our DIY ideas on how to make the best Christmas cards for 2025.

We have plenty of inspiration here for your own Christmas card designs - take a look.

Evie from CBeebies House has a few simple but fun ideas for making a Christmas card at home. All you will need is some card, paint and a pen, easy! Watch the video to follow these easy steps. 

To make a simple Santa Christmas card, you'll need coloured card or paper, a glue stick and some felt tip pens. Best of all, no scissors are required, making this a perfect festive craft activity for little ones! 

Feeling more creative? Try this impressive tinsel tree Christmas card, follow the steps with Ben and make a card to bring the festive cheer to friends and family. 

Ready for some finger painting? If you have time to get the paints out with the kids then this is the one for you. Create a finger painted robin Christmas card and cute penguin Christmas cards and gift tags. 

Get inspiration from our pop-up cards and try and make your Christmas cards pop! Take a look at the Sarah and Duck card, Tree Fu Tom's Zigzoo card or a Bluey pop-up card. 

There's lots of ways to make the perfect Christmas card, but using your little ones favourite CBeebies characters is always going to be the best Christmas card ever. If you can't find a template with their favourite characters here on, why not try drawing the character yourself or printing out some colouring sheets and adapting them into a Christmas card?

Download the Hey Duggee Christmas card template and print out the Hey Duggee Christmas decorations activity.

Learn to draw Bluey and her family or use the Bluey Christmas colouring sheets. We also have Bluey Christmas table name cards so everyone knows where they will be sat for Christmas dinner!

If your little one is a fan of Supertato, you can make a Supertato snow globe Christmas card or Supertato Christmas card with festive baubles.

Learn how to draw the Numberblocks and find even more CBeebies characters in the print and colour collection. 

Make a snowy JoJo and Gran Gran printable card and include a Merry Christmas message inside to send to a special person.

Use CBeebies Creative Lab to make a digital card and print it out to send to family and friends. You can find lots of Christmas designs and stickers featuring friends from Piripenguins, Nikhil & Jay, Hey Duggee, Supertato, JoJo & Gran Gran, Vegesaurs, Waffle the Wonder Dog, Swashbuckle, Something Special, Peter Rabbit, Andy's Adventures and presenters from CBeebies House. 

Check out our friends over at Blue Peter as they unveil the Blue Peter Christmas card for 2025. Follow the tutorial to make this simple and easy homemade Christmas card to impress your friends and family. 

Head over to CBBC and learn how to write the perfect Christmas greetings, wishes, and creative ideas for your Christmas cards.

When was the first Christmas card sent?

The world's first Christmas card was sent in 1843, by a British man, Sir Henry Cole.

He loved writing letters, but to write to all his friends would've taken him weeks, so he decided to have 1,000 cards printed and posted these instead. Read more and see pictures of the card on Newsround. 

When is national Christmas Card Day? 

National Christmas Card day is celebrated on the 9th of December, the date that Sir Henry Cole printed the first commercial Christmas card.

How many Christmas cards are sent each year? 

In the UK an estimated 1.8 billion Christmas cards are sent each year! 

Enjoy Christmas 2025 with CBeebies You can find all our exciting Christmas activities, games, songs, puzzles and clips featuring Bluey, Hey Duggee and many more CBeebies friends in our special Christmas fun on CBeebies collection. 

If you are looking for Christmas craft ideas, DIY decorations and recipes for you and the little one to try check out our CBeebies Christmas crafts page.

Get your toes tapping and your Christmas party started with our CBeebies Christmas songs collection. You’ll find a cracking playlist featuring CBeebies House friends, Supertato, Hey Duggee, Mr Tumble and more.