Christmas Eve brings families and friends together for the holidays and in a frankly bizarre move, sees many decide that the best way to spend time with someone you might not have seen all year is to get out the glue and paint and start crafting.
There’s something about the holiday season that gets everyone reaching for their creative side and this year’s tacky Christmas trend is leaning into that completely with home made decorations and anything that doesn’t match top of the wish list. If you’re looking for inspiration for some Christmas crafting then the royals have set the lead in 2025.
The Duchess of Edinburgh does cookies in a Santa hat
Sophie fully embraced the aunt at Christmas look by sticking a Santa hat on her head before she even started crafting.
The Duchess of Edinburgh was at Disability Initiative for their Christmas celebrations and she threw herself into all the activities and looked like she was loving every moment of it.
The charity, of which Sophie is patron, was holding its Christmas party. Disability Initiative helps adults with disabilities towards their personal goals through tailored activities.
The Duchess clearly enjoyed all the crafting on offer, helping decorate mini Christmas trees before going full on with her cookie decorating. It’s not Christmas without icing biscuits and the Duchess of Edinburgh looked very proud of her Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer creation. Add baking to your Christmas Eve to do list now.
Sweden’s future queen makes meatballs, natch
The rule at Christmas is that if someone has cooked something you eat it and you enjoy it. Note that down now, it will save you an argument at some point in the coming days.
Sweden’s future queen reigned supreme in the kitchen in the run up to Christmas as she tried her hand at crafting all kinds of traditional Christmas food, including the country’s most famous export, meatballs.
Princess Estelle, 13, and her 9 year old brother, Prince Oscar, headed to the royal castle kitchens to rustle up a festive feast. Estelle was clearly in charge as Oscar quietly got on with some creations of his own. And they did it all with a suitably nostalgic Instagram filter that made everything glow like a 1970s cookbook.
As this is all about crafting, the princess cracked out those ridiculous little cake cases you only see at Christmas and filled them with an unidentified sweet syrup. Remember the rule – someone makes it, you eat it and you like it. It’s Christmas.
Denmark’s king is given crafting lessons by his mum
In one of the most bizarre royal Christmas videos of 2025, King Frederik of Denmark was shown how to cut paper by his mother, Queen Margrethe.
Frederik had failed at a traditional Danish Christmas craft in 2024, when he’d tried to make a traditional Christmas heart paper decoration and ended up with a bit of a mess.
Having proudly shown his epic fail to his mother on his phone, the King of Denmark was then given a masterclass in how to make these special decorations by Margrethe who is well known for her creativity.
She usually designs costumes for major theatrical productions around the festive season but in 2025, she sat down with her 57 year old and showed him how to master the Christmas heart which has been made in Denmark for centuries by families coming together for the holidays. Queen Margrethe succeeded and her son and successor added his own decoration to the tree. Relief all round.
King Charles heads to his mancave to avoid the Christmas crafting
The King did what many a man has longed to do on Christmas Eve as the crafting begins and headed straight to the shed.
King Charles invited Radio 4 into his gardens at Dumfries House for a Christmas special that went out just before the family hit Sandringham for the annual get together.
Just in case anyone (and that means you, Kate) thought that Christmas crafting as a family was a great idea, Charles III spoke effortlessly of his love of the outdoors and how much he likes secateurs.
That’s a hint, if ever there was one, that making Santas out of card/ glitter/ chocolate is absolutely not what The King wants to do for Christmas and you’ll find him in the shed with a whisky, the radio on and the doors locked, just in case anyone says Christmas crafting.
