Crafts for Kids - Arts & Crafts for Children Directory

Kids will love making this paper plates mask arts and crafts project - play dress up.

Materials Needed:
Paper plate
materials to decorate (e.g. wool, crayons.)

Make this cardboard box into a garage, fort, or house. A kids craft to make buildings out of a cardboard box...great to use as a doll house or little people house.

Materials Needed:
Large box
scissors
paint

Splatter painting is a lot of fun and makes cool posters/ pictures. Great and messy craft for kids. Only do this craft with your kids if you don't mind cleaning up a huge mess.

Materials Needed:
Paint
toothbrush
lollipop stick

Kids love making Friendship bracelets. This is sort of like one of these fabric bracelets except the threads are braided. Girls, Older girls, and teens especially love this crafts project

Materials Needed:
Leather lace or string or shoe lace or thin lengths of material
cotton thread

Kids will love the neat paint effects that can be created with straw painting.

Materials Needed:
A drinking straw
thin paint
paper

Kids can make this arts and crafts project and then play with it all day long. This is a great craft and game to do on a boring day when there is nothing else to do. You can find the Aunt Sally Game in fairs. You have to try to knock over cans with a ball.

Materials Needed:
Cardboard Tubes
Paper
Felt tip pens
Glue
A soft ball

Kids craft and fun activity to make a homemade printing press....with a homemade potato stamp. Make shapes and images and letters on the potato and then use paint and then stamp it on the paper.

Materials Needed:
Potatoes
thickened paint

Little kids will love making these homemade play binoculars toy. Also great for dress up costume such as a birdwatcher or a camper.

Materials Needed:
Two Cardboard rolls (Kitchen or toilet rolls)
glue

A crafts recipe to make finger painting paint mixture. This is a great painting craft for toddlers and preschoolers and Kindergarteners.

Materials Needed:
Paint
Flour Needed

This is a fun project especially for the sneaky, silly kids. Your kids can make an invisible picture by using a white crayon or wax candle to draw a picture on a piece of paper. The message will seem invisible. However, when you paint a coat of paint on top of the picture, the picture will appear. This is a great project for boring days.

Materials Needed:
Candle or crayon
paint
paper

Your kids will love this craft with nature and trees. Your kids should search for dry leaves and then they will be gluing it on a piece of paper to make a tree-like poster or picture.

Materials Needed:
Paper
glue
leaves
crayons

It is difficult to teach little kids to sew, that is why many children start to learn by using sewing cards. You and your kids can now make your own sewing cards with this arts and crafts project.

Materials Needed:
Single hole punch
card
large blunt needle
wool

Make this great paddle steamer boat toy - and watch it go. Boys especially seem to love this craft. If you visit a lake or pond attach a long piece of string to the steamer so you can pull it back at the end of its journey.

Materials Needed:
Two plastic bottles
two elastic bands
Lollipop stick (Magnum) or plastic spoon
Toilet roll
tape (Electrical)
Ice cream container lid
Margarine Tub

Make a handmade rain stick toy with this neat arts and crafts project meant for kids. This makes a cool raining sounds that kids will love. This is a great craft for kids to make when bored.

Materials Needed:
Cardboard tube (Kitchen roll)
a length of foil
dried rice (Or peas or popcorn kernels or grit etc.)

Kids will love making this paper cracker toy, as most kids like making noise. Kids put this paper cracker toy in their hand and then flick their wrist forward to make a wicked cracking noise.

Materials Needed:
Card (cereal box)
piece of paper
sticky tape

This is a pom-pom yo-yo type toy for your kids to make with this arts and crafts project.

Materials Needed:
Cardboard
wool

Your little girls and little boys will love making this doll house out o a shoe box. This is a lot of fun. 'Playmobil' and 'Little People' figures are the perfect size.

Materials Needed:
A Shoe box
glue
wall paper
a bit of old carpet
scissors
paint

This is a spinning and fun toy that you can make. Start by twisting the disk a few times then tighten and loosen the string as the disk spins. It can whiz around at great speed once you get the technique. Great arts and crafts project and activity for boring days.

Materials Needed:
Strong cardboard or a large button
string
cotton or wool

Your kids will love making sock puppets. Learn how to make a sock puppet with this children's arts and crafts project.

Materials Needed:
An old sock
a marker pen or button
needle wool and cotton

Learn how to make your very own handmade wooden stilts with this wooden stilts arts and crafts project for kids to make with their Mom or Dad. This is a great toy to make and use outside on a boring day.

Materials Needed:
Wood approximately 2 by 2 or 50mm by 50mm screws

Learn how to write a secret invisible letter. Kids who love to play spy will love this invisible writing crafts project. The writing will remain invisible until the paper is placed near a heat source such as a radiator. This is a great craft for a boring day. This is a great science learning craft.

Materials Needed:
Lemon juice
a carrot and paper

Preschoolers and Toddlers love making macaroni necklaces. This is a fun craft and beautiful jewelry afterwards. Girls tend to really love this arts and crafts project.

Materials Needed:
Dried macaroni
paint
a piece of wool

This is a great weaving card arts and crafts project. This is a great project for kids to learn how to weave.

Materials Needed:
Card
some wool

Girls love this activity, in fact, most kids love this craft because it is so much fun to dance around with these dancing streamers to see the neat sweeping patterns that it creates.

Materials Needed:
A cotton reel
string
crepe paper

Your kids will love making this tent / fort out of a blanket and 2 chairs.

Materials Needed:
Two chairs
a blanket

Try this cool string painting technique. A great way for younger children to paint, such as Kindergarteners, Toddlers, and Preschoolers.

Materials Needed:
String
paint
paper

Like to have fun? Then this is a great activity for you. Turn cans and string into fun stilts to balance and play with. A great activity for outside on a day that you are completely bored. Stand on the cans, pull up tight on those strings and try not to fall over.

Materials Needed:
Two large tin cans (food)
cord or string

Children will have fun making bugs out of toilet paper rolls, paper, pingpong balls, and other materials.

Materials Needed:
Baking foil
cardboard tube
paper or card
Pingpong ball or squeezy lemon juice container

Great activity that boys tend to love. Make these soldier figures to play with. Soldiers are a lot of fun to play with.


Materials Needed:
Yogurt pot
cardboard roll
portion of an egg carton
glue

This is a great arts activity for kids to show their creativity. Make animals or people or monsters or other figures.

Materials Needed:
Small potatoes
dead matchsticks

How to make a seaside picture, things to make and do with children.

Kids can learn how to juggle with this activity. A great activity for kids who are bored.

Little kids and pets such as cats will love these Caterpillar and Snake Dragging toys. This arts and crafts project is a fun craft for little kids, preschoolers, toddlers, and Kindergarteners.

Materials Needed:
Egg cartons
string
paint

A Child's craft activity to make a finger puppet out of a cardboard roll and egg cartons.

Materials Needed:
Cardboard roll
egg carton
felt pens or crayons

Grow grass inside your house with this amazing Potato Hedgehog craft. This is a lot of fun for kids who like growing plants.

Materials Needed:
Half a potato
grass seed
cotton wool

Make a real boat toy that really sails in your bathtub with this arts and crafts activity for kids. Try it in the bath! Tie the mast with string for extra support. Boys really seem to like this crafts project.

Materials Needed:
Egg carton Lid
Tin Foil
A straw
Paper
Plasticine

Make a cool bubble blowing tool .. this is a great activity for children to have fun outside.

Materials Needed:
Washing up Soap liquid
card stock
glue or sticky tape

Decorate your Christmas tree with this handmade Christmas ornament from egg cartons and tin foil. Your kids will love this arts and crafts activity.

Materials Needed:
Egg cartons
tin foil
string or ribbon

Make this arts and crafts activity to teach your child how to tell time. Use this clock to teach your child how to tell the time!

Materials Needed:
Paper plate
split pins
blank cards or card stock
felt pens

Make this flower pot filled with flowers for your Mom or Grandma on Mother's Day or on her birthday. This also is a fun craft that little girls like to make.

Materials Needed:
Egg cartons
Blank cards or card stock
straws
glue