Modelling & Making...
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Adventure Play Sets
Children love role play. Games with tiny figures and mini-worlds can occupy them for many happy hours. Imagine combining this with a craft activity that gets them to...
Arts and Crafts With Dried Flowers
Drying fresh flowers and using a range of crafts to create beautiful and decorative objects is a timeless art that never fails to amuse and challenge children. It’s...
Butterfly Crafts for Children
What could be more inspiring for young artists than butterflies? Nature at its best, butterflies provide unlimited arts and crafts opportunities to experiment with...
Clay & Play Dough Crafts
Playdough and clay can be used and handled in countless ways. One of the cleaner crafts for kids, it’s a favourite at home, school and playgroups everywhere....
Crafts With String
How many arts and crafts projects can kids get stuck into with a length of string? The list is as long as.... a piece of string? String is versatile and cheap, you’ve...
Creating Simple and Effective Musical Instruments
The importance of music in a child’s growth and development should never be understated. It helps develop important listening skills, a keen...
Cutting Crafts for Kids
Cutting is a basic skill used in nearly all crafts for kids. It’s easy to forget that it's a good craft in its own right.
The First Cuts
Very young...
Fun to Make Garden Sculptures
Are you struggling to keep children interested in the garden? The answer lies in garden sculptures. It’s all about good old-fashioned fun with messy mud, rocks and...
How to Make Finger Puppets With Kids
Quality play is an essential part of a child’s life. The best example of this is role play. Role play uses a variety of different props that extend your child’s...
How to Make Hanging Mobiles With Kids
Kinetic mobiles are an art form pioneered in the early twentieth century by a talented sculptor called Alexander Calder. Kinetic mobiles were...
How to Make Simple Mosaics
The art of mosaics may be centuries old but it’s still a craft for today and ideal for children. Incredibly versatile and striking, mosaics are all about using tiny...
Junk Modelling for Pre Schoolers
The green revolution means that every household is now used to sorting and separating their rubbish every day. This routine has helped to promote an even better use...
Kids' Crafts with Cardboard Boxes
Anybody who knows children will recognise the extraordinary phenomenon of the child that tosses aside a new present so they can play with the wrapping paper and box!...
Kids Crafts with Paper Plates
Take one simple paper plate; open the doors to your craft cupboard at home and you open a world of innovative and easy crafts for kids.
Plate Faces
One of...
Kids' Crafts: A Restaurant at Home
The ability of children to imagine and make-believe is astonishing. Offer them the grain of sand of an idea and it will turn into a pearl of a play opportunity. An...
Kids' Nature Crafts
Nature offers a vast, free-of-charge store cupboard providing materials and inspiration for lots of crafts for kids. There are so many unusual shapes and textures to...
Make a Cardboard Doll's House
There are huge numbers of enthusiasts who build and create miniature homes brimming with antique furniture and fully functional electric circuits.
However,...
Make a Homemade Spa
A homemade spa is the ideal way to involve kids in a new and exciting range of crafts for kids. The end results are a joy to use at home or give to family and...
Make Your Own Scarecrow
Scarecrows have been fascinating features of kitchen gardens and fields for hundreds of years. With the rise in popularity of grow your own, they have become even...
Make Your Own Wind Chime
Making wind chimes is a wonderful craft activity that will engage your child in a creative project which will encourage them to venture into the garden.
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Papier Mache Crafts for Kids
‘Papier mache’ is French for chewed up paper, not an inspiring craft you might think! However, it’s an incredibly exciting activity. Kids paste layers of paper onto...
Sand Craft for Kids
Sand is not just for beaches, it’s also a great ingredient in lots of exciting kids crafts! Use it for modelling or with paint and other materials to create some...
