Craft Activities for Kids

Looking for craft activities for kids that are easy, fun and don’t require lots of time or materials? You don’t need to be artistic or “crafty” to enjoy creative time with your children. With just a few simple supplies and 10 to 15 minutes, you can create engaging activities your child will love.

Crafts are one of the best indoor activities for kids, especially during weekends, rainy days or school holidays. Not only are they fun, but they also support your child’s development in many important ways.

Benefits of Craft Activities for Kids

Craft activities for kids offer a wide range of benefits:

• Strengthens bonding time between parent and child
• Reduces screen time
• Develops fine motor skills
• Encourages creativity and imagination
• Builds planning and problem-solving skills
• Supports social and emotional development

Simple Craft Supplies for Kids

These are some useful and fairly easy supplies for your crafty activities:

• Paper plates
• Toilet paper or paper towel rolls
• Coloured paper
• Plain
• Wooden lolly sticks
• Glue
• Tape
• Scissors
• Paint, crayons or felt tips

Optional extras:

• Googly eyes
• Assorted pom poms
• Tissue paper squares
• Pipe cleaners

Easy Craft Ideas for Kids at Home

Toilet Roll Puppets

Toilet roll crafts are one of the easiest and most fun DIY crafts for kids.

You can create superheroes, animals, monsters or family characters by adding wool for hair, googly eyes and coloured paper for clothes. Once finished, children can create a puppet show or act out their favourite stories.

Homemade Cards

Homemade Cards are really fun to make. It’s a great hands on, simple craft activity for kids. Also, receiving a handmade card means so much more than a shop bought one. It requires so much more effort and you can personalise it just as you wish.

You could try decoupage, sticking cardboard shapes on top of each other to make a layered effect, tissue paper/or coloured ripped paper.

Create a Rainbow Craft

There’s something very rewarding about creating a rainbow regardless of your age. You could set up some paints for your child all of the colours of the rainbow, you could encourage them to mix primary colours to create secondary colours or you could encourage them to rip up coloured paper or tissue paper and glue them on to the paper. You can adjust the activity depending on the age.

Sensory Glitter Bottle

Sensory bottles are containers that typically include water, clear glue, glitter and any fun materials you’d like, designed to provide a child with non-messy, sensory play and stimulation.

They are fantastic craft activities for kids. Children love to shake them up and watch the objects and glitter float around as it settles to the bottom. Sensory bottles can be a really calming experience for your little one. They’re great for all ages.  Especially any child who loves visually stimulating objects. The great thing is you can make them yourself at home with relatively cheap materials mostly with things you already have in.

Method:

• Step 1: Fill the empty water bottle half way with warm water.
• Step 2: Fill the remainder with clear glue. Don’t use white glue for sensory bottles because you want to be able to see through it.
• Step 3: Squeeze in a drop of food colouring to make the bottle whatever color you wish. GO LIGHT on the food colouring! You can always add more, but you can’t take it away.
• Step 4: Add some glitter and all of the fun little items. Make sure any items you use are lightweight so that they float well.
• Step 5: Mix it all up and watch!
• Step 6: Glue the lid shut.

Junk Modelling Crafts

The beauty of junk modelling – making things with recycled materials to make things with – is that the materials are essentially junk and so children can be as creative as they want. They can’t ruin it.

The flexibility of using Junk to model and the fact we all have so much ‘junk’ gives children enormous learning benefits and  creative opportunities. Recycling toilet rolls and egg boxes is a cheap, fun way to do some easy craft for kids.

Here are some simple junk modelling ideas:

• Egg box ladybirds, flowers
• Paper plate owl, snail, fish
• Crafty collage
• Bottle top characters (using markers and googly eyes)
• Bottle top pictures
• Cardboard box vehicles
• Cardboard box houses

Nature and Land Art for Kids

Land art is a fun activity to do in nature, its free and is a perfect learning and development opportunity for early years too!

Land art involves creating art on the Earth. Use sticks, stones, leaves, mud and more to create fabulous pictures with your little ones. Why not try creating a picture of your favourite animal from sticks and leaves?

You could make this into a maths learning opportunity by taking a tally of all the different things you have found. Grouping them, adding them up and more. Or maybe you may want to encourage your child to find out more about the items them have picked from a scientific point of view.

If you enjoy making nature/land art Nature Makers can be found on our directory and many other clubs and classes which incorporates nature with art.

Free Creative Play

Sometimes instead of giving your child a specific craft activity just let them have free regin and see what they produce. Giving your child that creativity and freedom can be really empowering for them. Provide them with various materials, take a step back and see what they come up with

Craft activities for kids are lovely to do with children. Although if you prefer, why not take a look at our directory where we have plenty of craft for kids clubs if craft at home is not for you.

Looking for Craft Classes for Kids

If crafting at home isn’t for you, there are plenty of arts and crafts classes for kids available.

At Club Hub UK, you can find local craft clubs, art classes and creative workshops. Visit the Club Hub directory to discover craft activities for kids near you – https://clubhubuk.co.uk/