Craft projects are an excellent way to spend time and have fun with children. I'm a mom of three, and here on my blog I collected the craft ideas I used with my kids. Most of these projects don't require any special tools or supplies and can be easily done by the small ones alone or with your help. They are nature crafts, paper crafts, papier-mache projects, homemade toys, educational games, and a lot of recycling crafts that involve using toiled paper rolls, plastic water bottles, old cardboard boxes, etc. All the children's crafts related articles can be found by the kids label.
Paper Crafts for Kids
- Quilled dragon for kids
- My kid's quilling — dragonfly
- Paper ring with a folded rose for girls
- Paper quilling for kids: 10 tips
- Witch and wizard paper craft
- How to make paper ball ornaments
- Paper punches collage for kids
- 3D quilled mouse toy
- Fox & rabbit quilled miniature
- Miniature quilled cat and mouse
- Penguin: 3D quilling miniature
- Three-dimensional quilling toadstool
- Make a bracelet from folded paper strips
- Under the sea: kids' quilling picture
- Easy three-dimensional paper craft fish
- Make a cute caterpillar picture frame
- Wall hanging with paper butterflies
- Simple greeting card with a ladybug
- Curly paper flower
- Chigiri-e flowers easy kids' craft
- Make a paper craft iris flower
- Papercraft mouse finger puppet
- Papercraft: Crab and octopus
Papier-Mache
- Make a papier-mache cow using an empty water bottle
- Make a papier-mache airplane using a water bottle
- Papier-mache doll made using a plastic bottle
- How to make a papier-mache lion piñata
- Blue papier-mache bird
- Papier-mache picture frame with seashells
- Papier-mache Pinocchio mask
- Papier-mache penguin made using a water bottle
Recycling Crafts
- Giant Hanukiah made of corrugated cardboard
- Hanukkah Menorah made from recycled materials
- Make a space rocket toy from toilet paper rolls
- Make a Hanukkah-themed lantern from a milk carton
- Homemade kaleidoscope toy
- Make a cardboard castle using discarded boxes and toilet paper rolls
- Captain's Hook hook, recycling kids craft
- Make a toy telescope using toilet paper rolls
- Recycling craft: Robot made from boxes
- Recycling craft: make binoculars out of actimel bottles
- Make gigantic pencils out of toilet paper rolls
- DIY: Homemade stencils for kids
- Make toy turtles out of bottle caps
- Make a cork horse toy with your kids
- Make a toy TV set from a cereal box
- Cute snail made using a discarded CD/DVD
- Simple doll made of vine corks
- Make a toy water well from a milk carton
- Doll made of clothespins
- Collage: Fishie with paper punch scales
- Glossy magazine paper beads
- Cardboard toy castle
- Collage: Bouquet of flowers made of pencil shavings
- Miniature desk made of matchboxes
Judaic Crafts for Kids
- Giant Hanukiah made of corrugated cardboard
- Hanukkah Menorah made from recycled materials
- Hanukkah (Chanukah) crafts
- Make a Hanukkah-themed lantern from a milk carton
- Homemade clay Hanukiah with houses
- Homemade Hanukiah with jugs
- Cardboard Hanukiah kids craft
- Make a clay Hanukkah Menorah with bugs and flowers
- Shana Tova! Handmade card for kids
Nature Crafts
- Book: Nature Printing
- Kids' craft: Gnomes made out of sticks
- Painting on rock: A white rabbit
- Printed pizza nature craft for kids
- Easy dragonfly collage nature craft
- Cereals landscape collage
- Sunflower collage
- Nature craft: Owl made of river sheoak fruit
Educational Games
- Letter and number cookies
- Homemade Soma cube puzzle
- Educational game: Words and letters on bottle caps
- Exploring acorns: vocabulary, collage, and quilling
- Coloring T-shirts, having fun!
- Learning ABC: Homemade practice pages
Other Crafts for Kids
- Fun decorating ideas for summer
- Make a sea world themed vase using window sticker paints
- Cloud and rain kids' craft
- How to draw a cat
- Paper tops
- Balloon face kids' craft
- Kids' collage with symmetrical silhouettes
- Custom rubber stamps with animals
- Seed-bead friendship bracelet
- Home-made custom rubber stamps
- Curious bird marionette
- Baked salt dough owl wall hanging
- Make a cookie wall hanging
- Easy clay animals
- How to make toy insects from pompoms
- Make a ladybug and dragonfly collage using craft sticks
