Easy kids’ craft ideas for preschoolers through to tweens. We share art projects, printables, seasonal fun, simple sewing ideas and more.
This week the girls are on holiday from school so we decided to have some fun with this classic craft and DIY toy. I’m guessing that many people from my generation or older would remember making telephones from cups or tin cans as kids. I know I do and I remember how much fun my sister…
Today we are posting a craft idea for dance and play that has been inspired by a little boy fighting a big battle that no child should EVER have to go through. Finlay is his name and you can read more about him at the end of the post. The dancing ribbons we have made in his honour…
Recently the girls and I decided to make some tiaras out of foil. My kids love to create paper crowns and often make them on their own without any help from me. This version with the sparkly foil was even more appealing to them but they did need help with the pipe cleaner twisting and foil wrapping. The…
I’ve always wanted to try my hand at egg carton flowers – they are so bright and cheerful! The girls and I decided to make some over the school holidays and we used them to decorate egg carton jewellery boxes. You could use these boxes to store any small knick-knacks and collections (think crystals, shells, loom bands…
My kids still love play dough, so I am often experimenting with different recipes to make the experience a little bit different for them. This dough uses fresh blueberries to give it a bright purple colour. I know, I know, they are a pricey fruit and we usually only have them as a treat, so isn’t that…
Miss K, at age 5, is still very fond of her toy kitchen. She has lots of pretend food to cook, such as rock cakes, toilet roll fish and even the glitter sponge cakes we made a long time ago are still going strong. Sometimes she doesn’t even need food that looks real, ordinary round seed pods become chocolate…
I’m thrilled to be sharing a new ebook with you that is a collaborative project between little old me and 18 of the best and most creative craft bloggers out there. Honestly, I’ve been a bit starstruck by the company I’ve had the privilege to work with on this one, and am really very proud to be a…
We love hand made crackers at our place. We make them for Christmas every year, and have also made them for birthdays as well. In this post that I wrote for Childhood 101 I’ll show you how these sparkly gold and silver Christmas crackers can become New Year’s Eve crackers with a few simple changes. I’ll…
If you like a craft activity that is just easy and doesn’t require too much thought, mess and effort then this one is for you. We used the basic loom band finger weaving technique to create some colourful wreath ornaments with hair elastics. My girls (aged 5 and 6) had no problem making these mostly by…