Crafting for Kids is full of ideas, inspiration and instructions for crafts that will take your kids’ imaginations to the next level. Whether you have a budding artist in the house or just need a rainy-day activity, you’ll find ideas to inspire kids of all ages and interests. Your kids will enjoy incorporating nature into their art projects, recycling and upcycling household items, and creating holiday decorations and even retro crafts that adults will fondly remember from their own childhood. Stocking the craft closet, teachers’ favorite supplies, and the best ideas for any season round out all your kids need to begin crafting!
Crafting for Kids
Kids & Crafting
You & Me & Arts & Crafts
Hot & Trending! • With so many craft mediums and artistic techniques to choose from, getting your kids excited about crafting really relies upon just one important step: finding fun and exciting craft projects for them to do!
Rubber Boot Planters
DIY Kits • There are oodles of fun, new DIY (do-it-yourself) kits and craft supplies on the market. From marbling, paint pouring and polymer clay modeling for young children to ceramic pottery, diamond painting and rock painting for the big kids, you’ll find more options than ever when looking for crafts or boxed, one-stop-craft-shopping-type kits.
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Crumpet & Kimbo: Expert Craft Melter • Check out KandiPatterns.com for site creator Crumpet’s Perler bead character patterns for melting just about any kid’s favorite animated character. Perler bead melts have grown in popularity over the last five years, and Crumpet manages to keep up with the demand by adding kids’ favorite cartoon characters as they trend. There are other patterns to be found on the internet. But chances are if it’s not at KandiPatterns.com, it doesn’t exist yet.
Retro Crafts • Many crafters find ways to put new twists on oldie-but-goodie favorites like tie-dye, crochet, snow globes, stamping, and upcycling.
Supplies Galore!
INSIDE THE Art Supply Closet
Craft Stations, Work Spaces & Storage • Creating a crafting space for your kids can easily be done on a budget. It’s all in the organization: you can set up a craft storage system and workspace that’s both orderly and functional.
FINDING INSPIRATION & Influencers! • So … you’ve got craft supplies, a well-stocked craft station and workspace, and your kids are armed with paintbrushes and paints and raring to go!
Painting & Drawing CRAFTS • Painting remains one of the most popular forms of artistic expression in the world. Today’s young painters are experimenting with all kinds of paints and papers, finding ways to create stupendous works of art by thinking creatively. Glitter paints, watercolors, food coloring, tempera sticks and even melted candy pieces are being used to create art, and there are many excellent project ideas that will surely engage even the most reluctant artists.
30 Days of Painting! • Painting as a concept for children is pretty straightforward. But introducing them to new techniques and tools to paint with can be an exciting and fun way to inspire creativity.
Cool Painting Projects
DIY Blacklight
Mandala Art • In the ancient Sanskrit language of Hinduism and Buddhism, mandala means “circle.”
Painting Hearts • Give kids some blank paper and a set of colorful paints, and statistically they are going to paint one of these things: a rainbow, a heart, a tree, a house, a car, or their family. So instead of trying to get them to paint something else, why not give them some new art techniques they can use to embellish their art and take that rainbow, heart or house next-level? Check out some popular, trendy painting methods, like “brushswipe painting,” “tie-dye painting” or “handprint...
