Kids Crafts

Consider making bread decorations with your children instead of buying new Christmas ornaments. Bread decorations are simple to make and provide endless hours of fun for young children. There are...

Children of most ages, and a lot of adults, love pirates. They like reading about them, watching pirate movies and playing pirate games. There's something fascinating about thieves in garish...

Recycle CD cases with crafty do-it-yourself projects to decorate your home or office. Plastic CD case crafts provide an outlet for creativity and can be fun projects for kids, yet they also give...

Make a child's craft table to provide your children with a surface to complete their crafts that prevents you from worrying about stains and spills on your carpet and furniture. Make the table...

Seagulls are scavenger birds common to Northern America, easily recognizable by their simple white and grey coloring and often loud presence. Children may enjoying watching seagulls at the beach....

If you want to design a simple pair of socks with minimal shaping, try tube socks. Tube socks are easy to design and make, and their stretchy nature means that a single size can fit feet of...

Decorating your school locker is a reflection of your personality. Use a theme to really show who you are. Although you have to be careful that none of your decorations are permanent, there are...

Active kids need water to stay hydrated and feel their best, but keeping track of a water bottle can be problematic when you're out and about. Help your kids drink their eight glasses a day and...

Flag pins can not only be enjoyable to make, but also can help teach children about other countries' flags. Safety-pin flags are made by stringing colored beads onto safety pins, which, when lined...

You can easily make your own glow-in-the-dark paint for children. By mixing your own paint, you can control the brightness as well as the medium you use for painting. You can buy glow-in-the-dark...

Picture or photo frames are an inexpensive craft you can make with kids. Perfect for a family project or classroom activity, these frames are attractive and easy to personalize. Have children...

Dirt shirts are a fun project to add color to your plain white T-shirts. Dirt shirts turn white T-shirts into unique colors produced by soil. Places such as Costa Rica and Hawaii sell dirt shirts...

Paper plates are a wonderful canvas for printing, especially for children's crafts. Because paper plates are essentially thick paper, you can use a wide variety of items to create prints. Some...

Create your own fun crafts for free using toilet paper tubes--and while you are at it, help save the planet by recycling the excess cardboard that is generally thrown away after the toilet paper...

Here's a simple project for using up the extra pictures of your kids or grandchildren. Instead of using magnets to put their pictures up on the fridge, turn their pictures into magnets to hold...

A rollback can is a fun and easy toy you can build with common household items. When you give your can a push, it 'magically' rolls back to you. Built correctly, a rollback can might even be able...

Paper towel rolls are excellent for all kinds of crafts, including making homemade instruments such as kazoos, maracas or shakers, and even unique plucking instruments. These crafts are easy...

On a rainy afternoon, there are very few projects that can spark children's imaginations like building a play fort. Forts can be castles, cabins, boats or caves, depending on the imagination of...

Evoke the feeling of spring any time of year with colorful and fluffy tissue-paper flowers. The lightweight and inexpensive accents are easy to create, and you can make them with your kids as an...

"Count Down to Christmas Links" are a fun and simple arts and craft project to make this December with your children. These links create an easy way for even young children to know that...

Egg carton tops are close to ready-made trays. Styrofoam egg cartons can be a bit brittle, but the molded paper cartons turn out to be surprisingly sturdy material. If reinforced and decorated...

Create a playful and imaginative space for your little girl by including a craft table in her bedroom or playroom. Make the most of the table by combining features of a girls' dress table or...

Don't settle for plain ribbons when you need to tie your daughter's hair off of her face. Design hair accessories that are as decorative as they are functional. Adorn ribbon or strips of colorful...

Making wristbands with yarn is an age-old activity for children and adults. Wristbands and bracelets may look alike, but a wristband is tight around the wrist and a bracelet is loose to move...

Woven ribbon hair clips are easy to make and work well in fine or thicker hair. You can use this basic ribbon weaving technique alone for simple casual woven ribbon hair clips, or add bows, beads...

You can make beautiful Christmas tree ornaments from items you pull from your trash or recycling can. This tutorial will explain how to take a lid from a peanut butter, peanut can, jelly or other...

Take your trash and turn it into a Christmas treasure you will enjoy for years. Old, burnt out light bulbs can be turned into terrific Christmas tree ornaments. This tutorial will explain how to...

My father was a genius at coming up with great fun stuff to do with his kids. He could take just anything and turn it into a day of fun and a totally charming work of art. When I was still...

Kids love gooey, slimy things, which explains why Silly Putty has been around for more than 50 years. A generic version of this longtime favorite can be made at home.

Every art project can be fun and educational. Teach your children about the construction industry and the tools workers use to build. Make a 3-D sledgehammer out of paper products around your...

Are you wondering what to get the grandparents this holiday season? Well, how about having the kids create some homemade Christmas card placemats? Here is a festive craft that’s fun for the...

Wonderful Christmas memories can be easily created by spending time making these adorable ornaments with your family.

Movie studios are releasing more 3D movies every year and these movies are also becoming available for home viewing. While you can enjoy the movies without 3D glasses, having these glasses can add...

Fabric book covers offer colorful ways to protect your child's schoolbooks, favorite novels or personal journals from wear and tear. Fabric comes in various colors, prints and finishes, allowing...

Chariots were used by the ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians. Making a paper chariot is a great way to teach history, physics, or it can serve as a simple craft. Depending on the culture,...

Pegasus is a winged horse of Greek mythology. The Greek myth tells the story of how Pegasus "sprang from the blood of the Gorgon Medusa as she was beheaded by the hero Perseus," according to...

Children of the 1970s remember using heat shrink materials to fashion charms, key chains and bicycle tags. The heat shrink materials are sold under a variety of brands now, but the concept is the...

Barrettes are an icon of childhood that present an opportunity for a fun and easy craft project. The materials necessary are easy to obtain, and construction takes only a few minutes. While...

Ironing Girl Scout patches onto a vest is easy as long as you know where to properly place each patch--each one has a specific place to go on the vest. Girl Scout patches display accomplishments...

The glaze technique is a quick way to add texture and depth to your walls. You can repurpose your existing walls and give it a wallpaper look. The key factors in implementing the glaze technique...

Stencils are useful for tracing letters with exact precision, especially large letters. Forming large letters free-hand is difficult because you lose control of the letter due to the large scale...

Making a children's craft wedding canopy allows children to express creativity while being introduced to the concept of tradition and ceremony. A wedding canopy has four poles topped with a frame...

Bring the "Great Outdoors" inside by building a model campsite. Use this art project to guide kids in lessons about campsite safety, wildlife, ecology and preserving the environment. At a new...

Everyone has a story, and that story matters. Teach your children the importance of knowing heritage and embracing individuals' unique attributes by making a biography wheel out of construction...

Of course, when planning Vacation Bible School (VBS), you want to find ways to enhance and reinforce the biblical lessons you're trying to teach and crafts can be a really fun, creative way to do...

Children grow quickly. You can have a precious reminder of them as they grow older with the preservation of their once small handprints. Simple mementos such as clay handprints make an ideal way...

Children love craft projects. With young children it is best to prepare the craft project before starting. Their patience is short and they can only focus long enough to assemble the project....

There are several ways to make rubber stamp ink, and each has its benefits. Whether you are interested in crafting or making ink for your business, there is no need to buy new stamp pads when you...

No longer howling at the moons in the skies of the deep West, coyotes live in many parts of the United States today. They began their eastward migration "after wolves became extinct in the eastern...

Techniques for making concrete stepping stones for vacation Bible school projects focus primarily on how to make the process easier, because you're working with large groups of children,...