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Card Making Crafts for Kids
Children’s handmade cards are gifts of time, effort and skill. The sender gets as much pleasure from the card as the lucky recipient.
First Things First...
Collage Crafts for Kids
Collage is often one of the first arts and crafts that children attempt. Universally loved, the craft’s name is derived from the French word ‘coller’, which means ‘to...
Drawing Exercises for Children
Try a range of arts and crafts projects with kids and hopefully, one of the activities will reveal a natural talent. Unfortunately, if this talent is drawing, it is...
Kids' Crafts with Stencils and Stamps
Stencils and stamps are a great introduction to the world of design. Crafts for kids are often ‘free’ expressions of a child’s creativity. By using...
Kids' Drawing crafts
Drawing is a key skill for every child. It’s usually their earliest experience of kids crafts. However, it’s often neglected as they try lots of other ideas and...
Knitting Crafts for Kids
Knitting is an ancient skill, widely practiced in the Middle Ages and dating back thousands of years. It’s a valuable craft traditionally handed down from generation...
Make a Cardboard Castle
If you can combine imaginative play with a fun craft activity, you’re backing a winner. The project of designing and making a cardboard castle is the perfect mixture...
Make Your Own Stationery
Everyone loves to use nice stationery or receive a special letter instead of an email. It’s even better if the stationery is homemade and hand-crafted. Making your...
Napkin Decoupage
Decoupage is a fancy name for a simple craft that appeals to young and old alike. Children find it particularly satisfying and amazing effects are achieved by...
Painting Crafts for Kids
Crafts for kids are invariably introduced in a child’s life by painting. It is a staple activity at pre-school and toddler groups. There are so many interesting and...
Pom Pom Crafts for Kids
A staple ingredient of many crafts for kids is the pom-pom. So what better way for kids to personalise their craft ideas than making their own pom-poms? It’s really...
Sewing Crafts for Kids
Children's crafts are rarely more rewarding than sewing. It promotes manual dexterity, patience and accuracy. In these ‘throw-away’ times, sewing raises awareness that...
Stained Glass Craft Projects for Kids
Glass and children are not a happy combination, so the stunning art of stained glass making is usually ignored as a suitable craft for kids....
The Art of Quilling for Kids
Quilling is the art of turning strips of paper into rolls, curls and scrolls to decorate items or as part of a clever design depicting flowers, animals, spaceships,...
The Art of Scrapbooking for Kids
Crafts for kids reveal insights into a child’s world. Scrapbooking is a perfect example of this idea. The craft of scrapbooking is incredibly popular, inspiring kits,...
Tie Dyeing for Kids
Think psychedelic, Sixties' hippies and the fabulous swirly designs immortalised in the fashion of those eras. You’re thinking about the art of tie dye. It’s a craft...
Weather Crafts for Kids
Weather crafts are a wonderful way for children to try out many arts and crafts activities. It’s an effective method of raising their awareness of the world around...
