Kids Crafts: Doll Pin Butterflies. With a bunch of basic craft supplies this kids craft could possibly be hours of fun – creating gorgeous butterflies from doll pins, pipe cleaners and pom poms. {Collection of butterfly activities here} This post contains affiliate links. If you choose to shop through these links I will receive a small commission.
This is a beautiful and fun kids butterfly craft which exercises the kids’ finger muscles since the kids are doing a ton of pulling, twisting, stretching etc. Materials { products links below} I used the gorgeous neon colors and the glow in the dark colors I had on hand to set out this craft activity. The children had a great time painting the doll pins with vibrant colors. The multi colored doll pins looked gorgeous all ready for a even beautiful kids craft. Next step was to collect all the colorful pom poms. Gluing the pom poms by threes leads to tremendous play time for the children. Once they have the pom poms ready next step is to get the wings ready using pipe cleaners. See On. Earth Day Art with puffy paint Earth.
Easter Activities for Kids : Chalk Egg Art. Kids Crafts: Rainbow Craft using Painted Foil. Simple rainbow crafts kids can do with foil, paint and playdough. This post contains affiliate links. If you choose to shop through these links I will receive a small commission. We have been exploring and having fun with rainbow play dough and rainbow pasta!
Today we are simply using the rainbow play dough to create a fab 3d painted rainbow for St.Patrick’s Day. { Did you see our Fizzing Shamrock Art?} Materials { affiliate links below for your reference} { all St.Patrick’s Day Crafts for kids here} First tear off 7 sheets of your foil in increasing size { they will be the 7 colored bands of the rainbow} Then start rolling the foil. Once you have the foil tube like this Start bending them and create the rainbow. Once you are done crafting the rainbow, set out washable kids paint to create the colors! To turn this kids craft into a 3 rainbow press the ends of the foil into corresponding play dough color. My kid was very particular to get every single part of the foil filled with color.
See On. Valentine Art : Duct Tape Hearts | Kids Play Box. Home Art Projects Valentine Art : Duct Tape Hearts Post contains affiliate links. If you choose to shop through these links I will receive a small commission. Easy Valentine Art using colorful duct tape that can be turned into homemade presents for Valentine’s day. Very excited for our first post on our brand new name and URL.
Today’s post is an easy Valentine’s day craft and art activity that can be a cute present for daddy/grand parents or any one really. { All our Valentine Art and craft ideas here} Kids Play BoxValentines See On Materials Process for making easy Valentine Art with duct tape Lay out any thick paper { I had sand paper on hand from all our sand paper art projects} You can use card stock paper as well.Have a heart template ready.
To turn this Valentine art into homemade presents you can choose any of the three below routes 1.Glue the duct tape heart to a nice square canvas { we used a burlap one} 2. 3. Recommended by Pages: 1 2 share TurkeyMom Leave a Reply. Christmas Crafts for Kids : Homemade Ornaments with Foam Cups. This post contains Amazon affiliate links. If you choose to shop through these links, you have our heartfelt thanks for supporting our blog. Well, we haven’t really caught the Christmas crafts fever yet! Last year the kids and I managed to do a few Christmas crafts but we couldn’t share them all with you! Here is a simple homemade ornament kids made last year.
Materials { Affiliate product links below for your reference} Not a lot of materials huh? Using acrylic paint have the kids paint over the cups using some cheerful colors. Then to make those brightly colored cups extra colorful and cheerful we added a big dose of glitter on them when they were still wet with paint. Set the materials out for the children. Once the paint dries, along with the jingle bells set out some sparkly pipe cleaners.
Have them thread one bell at a time through some pipe cleaners. { Cue fine motor practice} Punch out 2 holes on the bottom of the foam cup. What do you think? Thanks for reading Feel free to pin this. Halloween Crafts for Toddlers : Spooky Wreaths. This post contains affiliate links. If you choose to shop through these links,, I will receive a small commission. Thanks for supporting the blog! Such a fun Halloween craft today! Remember our Holiday themed Christmas toddler craft we did last year? Probably not. Here it is just in case. We did a Halloween version of it with just a few basic craft supplies Use a white paper/Styrofoam plate and paint the edges. The kids can paint the edges using any color ( Hallowwen themed color if you prefer) Once the edges dry, set out googly eyes of various sizes.
Gluing the googly eyes to the paper plate is a wonderful fine motor exercise. Let them dry for bit.. Cut the rim out and make the actual wreath. Looks pretty! Hang it and enjoy! More from us Pumpkin Silhouettes Window Decor Craft Spider Web Art for Kids Glue Mummy Art Tin Can Mummies Nature’s Ghosts Spooky Eruptions Science Activity A collection of Halloween Sensory Activities Halloween Puffy Paint Art Paper Roll Jack O Lanterns Pumpkin Super Heroes. Halloween Craft for Kids : Spooky Hands Craft. This post contains affiliate links. If you choose to shop through these links,, I will receive a small commission. Thanks for supporting the blog! Today’s post is a super simple Halloween craft all kids will enjoy since it involves hand prints. What’s more? Materials On an orange construction paper trace ( or your child can trace) his/her hand. Or you can trace normally and use a paper edger scissors to cut out a bumpy hand print like we did.
After cutting out their hand print, the kids can draw small triangles and cut them out as well. The top pair are hands cut out using the trimming scissors ( affiliate product link in the materials section) Then comes in lots of gluing. Then “decorate” or rather “spookify” the hands with tons of glitter glue and googly eyes. You can use balled up tissue paper to serve as warts The orange nails can also be made more spookier with black glitter glue. The center googly eye just captures all the essence of Halloween in this spooky hand . More from us. 50 Halloween Activities for Kids. Halloween Crafts for Kids : Simple Ghost Craft. This post contains affiliate links.
If you choose to shop through these links,, I will receive a small commission. Thanks for supporting the blog! Our first Halloween craft for the season! Yay! We are kicking off with a super simple and classic Halloween kids craft. Materials Basket Coffee FiltersBlack MarkerHole Punch String/ThreadFallen Tree branch (optional) Fold a basket coffee filter into half. Those holes made by the puncher gave the ghosts additional charm! We then found a fallen tree branch and used it as a prop to display our cute little ghosties.
I can see how this entire craft can be be done on a much larger scale using a larger tree branch and many more ghosties. Once you have your spooky branch you can use it as a prop for your haunted house theme or simply prop the branch in front of your house in your front lawn for the big night! Lay a black poster board behind the branch if possible ( if using indoors as decor ) and draw a full moon and a bat flying. More from us. Pumpkin Crafts for kids : Sparkly Pumpkins. Simple idea for creating shiny pumpkins. This post contains affiliate links. If you choose to shop through these link I will receive a small commission. Thanks for supporting the blog! Materials Ice Cream Salt Liquid Watercolor Paints or Gel Food Color I printed out an outline of a couple of pumpkins of different sizes and taped the paper to a cereal box { you can use cardboard too.}
Those 2 shiny ingredients have already made a couple of appearances on the blog. This pumpkin crafty art project will make a fantastic collaborative project { Divide the class into groups and make large shiny pumpkins} We brushed glue on the inside of the pumpkin and quickly scattered the colored salt before the glue dried up. The kid took care in not covering the lines of the pumpkin. We did section by section for better control of the project. Getting the green stem,all filled in was the highlight since that instantly gave the pumpkin lots of character. Gotta love all that texture on that pumpkin.
Printable Mask Templates. These mask templates are perfect for Mardi Gras, fancy dress and birthday parties. Print them out directly onto coloured card or paper, or cut and trace round them. Then dress them up with feathers, beads, sequins and any other crafty bits and pieces that you have lying around! Here's mask template 1 of 7, and this one is a very traditional Mardi Gras or Carnival style shape. Mask template 3 out of 7 - and this one is a fairly traditional shape, especially if you want to look like a superhero! Our 4th mask template (out of 7) is a very funky design! We can imagine this cut out of silver card and dressed up with silver nuts and bolts and bits and pieces, for a robotic style mask. Mask template 6 out of 7 has wiggly edges and we think it would be fun to give the mask a wiggly feel too, perhaps by cutting it out of flock card or stiffened felt.
This is our oldest mask template and the quality of the printable isn't great, but the style is so useful we've kept it up. Princess Paper Dolls. Here's a set of Princess Paper Dolls that every little girl will want to print, cut out and play with! Available in colour or in black and white so you can colour in and design your own outfits. So pretty! Grow A Grass Head Monster. Blob Monsters - Monster Crafts For Kids. Kids of all ages will have great fun painting these blob monsters, but of course the idea is primarily aimed at younger children, who will be delighted with the results! Why not paint lots of blob monsters then cut them out roughly and hang or display them around the room...
You will need: Paper Paint Drinking Straws Googly eyes Marker pen Instructions: Squirt a blob of paint on to the paper. Quickly blow through the drinking straw at the paint so it spreads out into a suitable "blob" shape. When the paint is dry, stick on googly eyes and draw on mouths. Paper Plate Stegosaurus. A simple dinosaur craft activity for younger children, our paper plate stegosaurus is fun to make and paint and looks great too! The completed paper plate stegosaurus! You will need: Paper plate Green and yellow paint Strip of green card Glue (or stapler) Pen Paint the middle of your plate and the lower half of the rim green. Using the photos as a guide, cut out the head, legs and the start of the tail out of the green-painted section of the plate. Paper plate stegosaurus - leg detail Now, using our photos as a guide, cut into the yellow rim to form the spikes.
Paper plate stegosaurus - tail detail Cut a tail from the green card, and stick to your plate. Draw on a face. Paper plate stegosaurus - face detail. Pebble Bumblebee Craft For Kids. Turn a pebble into something special with a bit of paint and imagination! Our pebble bumblebee craft is great for kids of all ages. Of course the painted pebble makes a super paperweight and might be good for a present for parents, grandparents or teachers (although you would need to be careful not to damage the wing...) You will need: A large smooth pebble Yellow and black acrylic paint Wiggle eyes White tissue paper (a dryer sheet might be a little longer lasting) Instructions: Paint your pebble yellow and leave to dry. Paint thin black stripes across the body, using our photos as a guide.
Stick on two tissue paper wings and a wiggle eye and your bumblebee is ready to fly! Pompom Caterpillar Craft For Kids. Find instructions for this quick and easy pompom caterpillar craft for kids below. It's a good craft for practising simple needle and thread skills, and he's quite cute - he might become a firm friend! You will need: 6 small pompoms 1 large pompom in a contrasting colour Wiggle eyes Glue Thread and a large needle Instructions: Thread the needle and tie a knot in the end. Snip off any excess thread. Carefully, starting with the large pompom, push the needle through the centre of each pompom. Stick 2 eyes on to the large pompom to make the head. Your finished caterpillar can wiggle!
Handprint Caterpillar Painting. Family Tree. This family tree display makes a great project (and poster) at any time of year, but also an unusual and special gift for Grandparent's Day. You will need: Brown paint Large sheet of paper Glue Pale green paper (or orange and yellow paper if you are doing this during Autumn( Pens Instructions: Paint a tree on to the paper with brown paint. Cut out lots of leaves from the green paper. Older children could try and draw their tree branches and stick their leaves in such a way as to show the generations. Variation Make a 3D tree. Twig Fairy. Bubble Painting. Sun Handprint Craft. Summer Spiral Crafts. Spring Crafts. Circular Painted Paper Flower Card Craft. My Heart...A Book About Feelings. Hand-Made Envelope Craft. Banjo.