The easiest Christmas craft ever: DIY window clings

It’s the busy holiday season! So, let me make your life way easier by showing you how to make these Christmas DIY window clings. They are incredibly easy and you and your kids will love making them together. Check it out!

My five-year-old daughter loves making crafts, especially around Christmas time. And I love making these DIY window clings because they are super easy, don’t make a huge mess and they are fun for adults too. Here’s how we made them.

Gather your Christmas window cling craft supplies

You only need four items to make these fun window clings. Didn’t I tell you this would be easy? Here’s everything you’ll need listed below:

• Gallery Glass Paint
• Ziploc bags (sandwich, quart or gallon)
• Printable Christmas coloring pages (see below)
• Scissors

The key ingredient to making these window clings is the paint. Gallery Glass paint is a stained glass paint that is meant to be applied to glass or plastic surfaces. And once it is dry, it is removable. You can also try using puffy paints, but they don’t peel off as well once dry.

When looking for Christmas coloring pages, try using smaller, simpler images without a ton of detail. I compiled eight cute Christmas images that were the perfect size. My kids loved them. You can download and print them below for free.

Start painting your window cling

Once you’ve printed your Christmas coloring pages, cut them out into individual pictures and insert them into Ziploc bags. The images above fit easily into a sandwich bag. I like the Ziploc brand bags because the plastic is a little bit thicker.

Next, carefully paint inside the lines of the coloring page on top of the plastic bag. Be careful not to shift the coloring page inside the bag because it will become unaligned with the paint on the outside of the bag.

I was worried that my five-year-old daughter might have a hard time painting in such detail but she did great. The tips of these Gallery Glass paints are very small and the paint comes out very smoothly, so it’s super easy.

Allow to completely dry

After you’re done painting, your window clings need at least 12 to 24 hours to dry depending on how thick you apply the paint. If they’re not completely dry, they won’t peel off correctly.

Now this is the fun part. Once completely dry, peel off your window cling from the plastic. It should peel off super easy. Then, hang it on a window or mirror!

My kids LOVED making these DIY window clings. They probably made about 20 of them. Not only did they like painting them, they also loved peeling them off. I had a lot of fun making them too. It’s a really relaxing activity for kids and adults. This would be a super fun activity to do for a classroom Christmas party.

Here’s a video of how we made these clings.

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