Crafts for Kids - Arts & Crafts for Children Directory

Girls can make this handmade Cheerleader Pompom Decorative Pins - fun to make and wear. Make and wear mini pompoms in your team's colors.

You need:

* Vinyl Tape
* Crimped Basket Stuffing
* Scissors
* Low Temp Glue Gun
* Jewelry Craft Pins

Make these Polar Coasters Craft for kids to make. Economical coasters are pretty and fun to make. Great gift idea.

You need:

* 12 Craft Sticks
* 5" Square Piece of Cardboard
* Tacky Glue
* Textured Snow Paint
* Snowflake Sequins
* Crystal Sequins

Handmade Decoupage Gift Box Arts & Crafts Idea for Kids. You would think this gift box came from an expensive boutique but you can make them... inexpensively!

You need:

* Kraft Box
* Decoupage Solution
* Foam Brush
* Raffia

A crafts recipe for Everlasting Sand Castles. Kids will love making these.

Equipment/Software

* Computer
* Printer

Materials & Supplies:

* 4 Cups Sand
* 2 Cups Cornstarch
* 1 tbl + 1 tsp Cream of Tartar
* 3 Cups Hot Water
* Straws or Craft Sticks
* Glue
* Scissors

Wow - make these very cool Photo Sculptures with your kids. An cool arts and crafts idea for children to make a beach scene come to life or try one of these other ideas:

* Make a field of flowers with silk or dried flowers
* Use dollhouse miniatures

You Need:

* Flour/Salt Dough or Sand Dough
* Beach Photo
* Scissors
* Tacky Glue
* Sand
* Little Seashells
* Scrap of Cardboard

Make this Kids' Craft for a "Stained Glass" Easter Poster Design

Equipment/Software:
--Computer
--Printer

Materials & Supplies:
--Lettered Sized
--Heavy Black Paper
--Lettered Sized
--White Paper
--Assorted Color
--Tissue Paper
--Exacto Knife
--Glue
--Large Piece of
--Heavy Cardboard
--Thumbtacks

Kids can make these Plant Pals - little wooden Plant friend figures to stick in your flower pot to keep your plants company.

Ages 5 & up.

You need:

* Craft Sticks
* Heart and Circle Woodsies
* Red and Pink Paint Pens (or paint)
* Tacky Glue
* Black Stiffened Felt (or Black Construction Paper)
* Hole Punch
* Fine Point Black Marker
* Plant Pal Patterns

Your kids can make these handmade greeting cards called - Calico Cards
Great for all ages, these cute cards are quick and easy! All you need is scissors, glue and paper to print on.

You need:

* Pattern for Outlines Only:
Cat, Bird, Dog, Mouse, Pig, Hearts

Patterns for Color:
Cat, Bird, Dog, Mouse, Pig, Red Hearts, Pink Hearts
* Card Stock
* Glue Stick
* Scissors

Make these handmade Pikachu Storage boxes that are great for a kids Pokemon Birthday Party. Use these Pikachu Boxes as Party Favors by making them with this childrens arts & crafts project. Mini Storage Box make great favors that are easy to customize.

You need:

* Mini Storage Box
* Paint Markers
* Computer
* Pikachu Face Pattern

Children's Craft Idea for Mardi Gras Hats / Visors. Safer than masks and more comfortable to wear, decorate a visor for Mardi Gras!

You need:

* Visors
* Gemstones
* Feathers
* Tacky Glue
* Foam Shapes

Build a go-kart,things to make and do with children.

Kids can learn how to make a kids from scratch. This is a great craft to make when your kids are bored and want to play outside with this popular toy - the kite.

Materials You Need:
Green gardening sticks or wooden doweling
paper or plastic
string
glue or tape.

Kids can make a handmade buzzer ... a great craft and activity for kids to learn about electricity and science as well as a handmade craft .. A great activity to make and do with children.

Materials You Need:
A battery operated door bell
a stiff wire coat hanger
a piece of wood
insulation tape.

Kids can learn about science and magnets with this activity and craft to make a handmade compass. Activity for how to make a compass.

Materials Needed:
A magnet
a bowl of water
a needle

Kids can learn about science and electricity with this activity and craft to make a handmade battery. Activity for how to make batteries and electricity.

Materials Needed:
A lemon (Or lemon juice)
zinc (Something galvanised, like a nail)
copper (Electrical Wire or water pipe)

Kids can make this craft activity to balance a butterfly on top of a pointy object. This is a fun craft to do when your kids are bored. The butterfly will balance on top of any pointy object and will even twirl in a breeze or spin if placed above a heat source such as a radiator or TV / monitor.

Materials Needed:
Light card (From a cereal box)
two small coins or washers
a cocktail stick or match stick or pin
Glue or tape
coloring pens or paint.

Your kids will love making this foil flower crafts project as a gift for Mom or Grandma. This is also a craft that little girls love because it is so pretty.

Materials Needed:
Tin or kitchen foil.

Make this famous birthday party game Pin the Tail on a Donkey - with tese arts and crafts instructions on home to make the game with or for your kids.

Materials Needed:
Paper
cardboard
blue-tack
paint
a blind fold.

You and your kids can do this soap and paint - Frothy Painting Idea for cool Swirly Painting Effects. Make cool posters and pictures. A great craft to make and do with children.

Materials Needed:
A bowl
a squeeze of washing up Soap liquid
paint.

Make your very own Coke Bottle Rocket and learn about science and the law of Motion. Newton’s third law of motion states, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” In the case of the rocket, the expulsion of the water from the bottle is the action, and the forward movement of the rocket is the reaction. Simple eh!

Materials Needed:
Large coke bottle 1-2L
a cork from a wine bottle
an old bicycle inner tube (Preferably with the thinner type of valve)
a drill
a bicycle

Kids (especially boys) can make this Paper Dart Shooter craft. This is Hold to your mouth and blow sharply. The cone arrow will fly very far and fast. Great handmade toy to play with outside.

Materials Needed:
Paper
Sturdy thin tube (Sometimes found with tin foil)

Make a handmade Conkers Game to play with your friends. The game goes on in turns until one or other of the two conkers is completely destroyed. A great game to play outside or to play when you are bored.

Materials Needed:
Conkers
string
hand drill or spike

This is a bit of a difficult and messy project to decorate Eggs for Easter. This project is an egg blowing project...you are blowing all of the egg out of the shells and then decorating the shell and strengthening it by varnishing it. A great kids craft for Easter.

Materials Needed:
Egg (Normally from a chicken)
hat pin or knitting needle or nail or cocktail stick etc.
Paint or dye
Vinegar

Make this craft and game with these instructions. This is a great game to splatter the rat. The 'Splatter' should stand poised ready to strike the rat. The other person is to release the rat from the top of the pipe.

Materials Needed:
Old sock
dried peas or rice
a piece of drain pipe
a roll of newspaper or small piece of garden hose pipe

Make this arts and crafts project to make a Thaumotrope animation craft. This project is know as an 'Optical illusion' because it tricks your eyes into thinking there is a whole picture when in reality you are looking at two separate pictures. A great craft for bored kids.

Materials Needed:
A large button or coin
string
paper
small piece of sticky tape

Make this Cool Combac toy - you roll it away from you and it will keep rolling back to you. This is a great toy to make for children and teens on a rainy day when you are bored and don't know what else to do.

Materials Needed:
A Pringles Potato Chip Cannister / Tube / Can
Two Pringle Potato Chip Can lids
Elastic band
Large nut (A nut and bolt type of nut)

Boys will love this parachute soldier toy that they can make for themselves with this arts and crafts project. Throw the soldier from a height and the parachute will bring him smoothly to the ground!

Materials Needed:
Handkerchief
string
plastic toy soldier

This is a crafts project to make a toy javelin like toy - these are called French arrows. Boys will really love playing with these outside. Throw the dart like a Javelin. The technique takes some mastering but once you've got it, the dart will go very far because of the slinging effect of the string.

Materials Needed:
Straight stick or bamboo (Arm length)
thin card
plasticine
piece of string

Learn about Convection and Science with this Fun Spinning Crafts Project and Spinning Game. The spiral will whiz around for hours on end, all by itself! How does it work? Hot air is less dense (Heavy) than cold air therefore always rises...this is convection. That is how this works and spins.

Materials Needed:
Empty cereal box or cardboard
pencil
Plasticine or bluetack

Learn how to make your very own paper mache hat or costume hat with this paper mache costume hate tutorial. Ideal for fancy dress parties. Can also be used to make Masks!

Materials:. News-Paper, flour, balloon. Instructions:. Tear newspaper into strips. Mix flour and water together to the consistency of thin cream.

Kids (especially boys) will love this rubber band gun / pistol craft and toy. Stretch the elastic band along the barrel to the notch. Pull the trigger. BANG!

Materials Needed:
An elastic band
piece of card
a split pin

Kids will love seeing how a fossil is created so it is an educational science activity as well as a lot of fun. Make this leaf fossil craft...use nature to make art.

Materials Needed:
Plaster of Paris
empty spread dish
vaseline
leaf

Make your own handy dandy phone out of empty food cans. Talk into one end, put the other next to your ear and Presto! your own personal communications system. A great game to play with other friends. A great Science Learning activity to learn about sound and vibrations.

Materials Needed:
Two opened food cans with the lids safely removed
string

Boys love water bombs...make this origami paper water bomb out of a piece of paper and water. This is a lot of fun and a great idea for outside fun. This is a fun craft to do when you are bored.

Materials Needed:
One piece of paper
water.

Kids can make these handmade birthday party hats with this arts and crafts project and instructions. Paint the card black and add a rim to make a witches or wizards hat at Halloween.

Materials Needed:
Stiff paper or thin card
crepe paper
sticky tape or glue

This makes a standard Bean bag toy, but think about how you can easily make pyramids or cubes by cutting the material into a pattern before you stitch it together! You can also choose different types of stuffing, cotton wool for example makes a lovely soft ball.

Materials Needed:
Material
needle
cotton
dried peas or any other type of stuffing

Place this racing toy and watch it roll away. Place it on the floor and watch it go! This is a great crafts project and activity for kids who are bored on a Rainy day.

Materials Needed:
Cotton reel (or 35mm film case)
elastic-band
pencil
eraser
small piece of plastercine

Make these cool tin foil rubbing pictures / posters. This gives a very similar effect to that of brass rubbings!

Materials Needed:
Postcard or card
rice
lentils
string
foil
shoe polish
glu

Learn how to make this fish mobile...a great craft for kids. Use a coat hanger to make the mobile frame!

Materials Needed:
Card
decorating materials e.g. colored gummed paper

Make this blotting painting crafts project to make cool pictures / posters. Combine with the other painting techniques to make symmetrical pictures! Kids can learn about shapes.

Materials Needed:
Paint
paper