Crafts for Kids

A selection of 60+ crafts for kids of all ages, from toddlers to elementary, from Simple Fun for Kids! Suncatchers, finger and handprint crafts, and other quick and simple crafts.

Want to create something with your child, from toddler on up? The process is still important for growth but with crafts, you get an object to display, give to others, or save for later.

Click below to find themed craft posts. If you’d like some pointers on how to get the most out of crafting, in particular with your toddler, keep reading below the fold.

Crafts To Do Any Time

  • Crafts for Kids: Red, white, and blue coffee filter stars only take minutes to make, and they make great patriotic decorations! (Free template included!)
  • Coffee Filter Hearts: A classic toddler and preschool craft that looks great hanging in a window!
  • Super simple and super effective: Try this Washi Tape Hearts craft with your preschooler, kindergartener or older kids! They make great Valentine's cards and also look awesome in a window.
  • Use your toddler's artwork to make this super simple heart picture frame craft! Great for Valentine's Day or just to display a favorite photo.
  • Try this simple textured apple craft with your toddler or preschooler! It was easy enough for my 2-year-old, and my 5-year-old really enjoyed being methodical with the simple technique.
  • 2 Minute Crafts for Kids: Make funny pipe cleaner worms from two materials!
  • Glue star suncatchers with beads and glitter - a simple, fun craft for toddlers, preschoolers and up.
  • Super simple crafts for kids: We read Aaaarrgghh! Spider! and made glittery spider webs!
  • Crafts for Kids: Make simple, colorful painted and jeweled butterflies!
  • My kids absolutely loved this this finger paint art project we worked on recently! It is so much fun and not as messy as you might expect.
  • Valentine's Decorations for Kids: Quick and simple Paper Towel Stained Glass Hearts
  • Crafts for kids: Bottle Print Flowers, perfect for spring, or whenever you need some spring cheer!
  • Great quick and simple craft for big siblings: DIY Baby Toy for Tummy Time
  • Make simple but stunning Marbled Hearts with your toddler using shaving cream!
  • Make a bright and colorful egg shell collage on contact paper!
  • A very different kind of paint that puffs up in the microwave - must-try with your toddler!
  • Art and sensory activity for kids: Messy painting with Shaving Cream Puffy Paint is so much fun! My toddler had a blast, but it would be great fun for preschoolers and kindergartners, too.
  • Make a super sweet Double Handprint Heart with your toddler for Valentine's Day!
  • Your toddler can make his own version of a stained glass heart for Valentine's Day (or just for fun)!
  • Make glue painted hearts with your toddler, either to keep and display, or to give to loved ones!
  • A Valentine's craft that my toddler came up with!
  • We glitterized a few hearts with a really simple technique that contained most of the glitter!

Christmas Crafts

  • 24 Days of Christmas Printables - Day 7: Personalize all gifts you give and color your own printable Christmas gift tags!
  • Make a simple paper marbled candy canes craft that smells delicious with preschoolers and kindergarteners! Shaving cream, paint, paper, and peppermint extract are the only materials.
  • Isn't this Reindeer Terra Cotta Pot Christmas Ornament the cutest thing you've seen this week? Easy to make with kids of all ages and a great eyecatcher on the Christmas tree! It even has a bell.
  • 24 Days of Christmas Printables: Day 4 - color your own printable Christmas ornaments! Super fun and cute ornaments for toddlers and preschoolers!
  • Christmas Crafts for Kids: Make quick and simple wrapping paper ornaments from scraps! Great for everyone from toddlers to preschoolers, elementary students and older kids.
  • Christmas Crafts for Kids: Make a cute and simple Handprint Reindeer with your toddler or preschooler!
  • I hadn't used salt dough in decades, but now that we've tried it, I think we'll make a LOT of salt dough Christmas ornaments! Check out these simple salt dough candy cane ornaments from plain and colored salt dough!
  • Handprint Snowmen Christmas Ornaments: A super cute quick Christmas craft for kids!
  • Would you like to make simple Christmas cards with your kids? Use my printable Christmas tree templates to make it super easy for kids of all ages!
  • Make quick and simple marbled Christmas trees with colorful decorations!
  • For Christmas, make a quick, simple, low mess wrapping paper collage shaped like a candy cane!
  • My preschooler's spin on handprint Christmas trees!
  • Simple but very pretty kid-made shaken paint Christmas ornaments!

Winter Crafts for Kids

  • Use shaving cream puffy paint to make simple puffy snowmen decorations!
  • Christmas Crafts for Kids: Make a cute and simple Handprint Reindeer with your toddler or preschooler!
  • Winter Crafts for Kids: Super simple snowman suncatcher from a paper towel and construction paper!
  • Crafts for Kids: Make a cute and simple Cotton Pad Snowman!
  • Super cute foam cup snowmen craft for kids: They work on important fine motor skills, there's no mess, and they're finished in minutes!
  • Can you use the shaving cream marbling technique with white paint? You sure can - we made Marbled Snowmen!

Fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids

  • Crafts for kids: Make more turkey handprints quickly and simply with your kids to decorate for Thanksgiving! Great for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners!
  • Try this simple textured apple craft with your toddler or preschooler! It was easy enough for my 2-year-old, and my 5-year-old really enjoyed being methodical with the simple technique.
  • Christmas Crafts for Kids: Make a cute and simple Handprint Reindeer with your toddler or preschooler!
  • Super simple crafts for kids: We read Aaaarrgghh! Spider! and made glittery spider webs!
  • Apple Suncatcher Toddler Craft: super simple and cute, no matter the attention span!
  • My son's very first craft at 13 months: Pumpkin Suncatcher Toddler Craft!
  • Marbled Leaves: Yet another variation on the shaving cream marbling technique - my favorite yet!
  • Simple spiderweb craft for kids - for Halloween or just for fun any day of the year!
  • Have you ever seen a Halloween Tree? Not exactly true to nature but a fun, super simple Halloween craft for little kids!
  • Make some quick and simple fingerprint spiders with your kids - perfect as a non-scary Halloween craft, or just because it's fun!
  • Make Handprint Turkeys with your kids - a simple, classic Thanksgiving craft!
  • Use shaving cream and liquid watercolors to make Marbled Pumpkins and decorate for fall!
  • Simple Fun for Kids: Thumbtacked Pumpkins
  • Pour painting pumpkins - a simple and beautiful way for little ones to decorate their own pumpkins!
  • Simple Fun for Kids: Fall Tree with Clay Leaves

Valentine’s Crafts for Kids

  • Coffee Filter Hearts: A classic toddler and preschool craft that looks great hanging in a window!
  • Super simple and super effective: Try this Washi Tape Hearts craft with your preschooler, kindergartener or older kids! They make great Valentine's cards and also look awesome in a window.
  • Use your toddler's artwork to make this super simple heart picture frame craft! Great for Valentine's Day or just to display a favorite photo.
  • Valentine's Decorations for Kids: Stained Glass Hearts Suncatcher
  • Valentine's Decorations for Kids: Quick and simple Paper Towel Stained Glass Hearts
  • Make simple and cute Fingerprint Mother's Day Cards three ways with a printable template!
  • Make simple but stunning Marbled Hearts with your toddler using shaving cream!
  • Make a super sweet Double Handprint Heart with your toddler for Valentine's Day!
  • Your toddler can make his own version of a stained glass heart for Valentine's Day (or just for fun)!
  • Make glue painted hearts with your toddler, either to keep and display, or to give to loved ones!
  • A Valentine's craft that my toddler came up with!
  • We glitterized a few hearts with a really simple technique that contained most of the glitter!

Spring and Easter Crafts for Kids

  • Use the shaving cream marbling technique to make marbled eggs with your child to decorate for Easter!
  • Make simple and cute Fingerprint Mother's Day Cards three ways with a printable template!
  • Crafts for Kids: Make simple, colorful painted and jeweled butterflies!
  • My kids absolutely loved this this finger paint art project we worked on recently! It is so much fun and not as messy as you might expect.
  • Easter Crafts for Kids: Simple stained glass egg suncatcher!
  • Easter Crafts for Kids: Classic coffee filter eggs that are easy to make and look great in your window!
  • Crafts for kids: Bottle Print Flowers, perfect for spring, or whenever you need some spring cheer!
  • Check out these cute, simple Easter egg fingerprint cards! The process is really fun, leaves a lot of room for creativity, and is great for kids of all ages! Includes a printable template.
  • Make a bright and colorful egg shell collage on contact paper!

If your little one is anything like mine as a toddler, it’s not always easy to get them to follow detailed instructions when it comes to crafts.

They’re usually not nearly as interested in the finished product as you are. It’s all about the process for them.

If it’s not interesting enough for them, or if the materials spark other ideas in them, your planned craft might go in totally different directions than you’d anticipated.

As always, try your best to keep an open mind and let your child lead the way if the craft isn’t working out as described.

Your toddler might just come up with something completely different and cool in its own way – whether it results in an item that’s worth keeping, displaying or giving away, or “just” in more quality time and learning opportunities for both of you.

For example, I always marvel at really wonderful fingerprint art where a parent got their kid to make prints in exactly the right spots. My toddler would never go for that.

Not that she doesn’t love fingerprints (and handprints and footprints and nose prints 😉 ), that’s not it at all. It’s just that SHE decides where they go.

So, make sure to choose a craft that has the highest likelihood of success with your child. Be prepared for even that craft not working out. Toddler crafts in particular don’t necessarily lend themselves to making last-minute gifts 😉

I personally keep an assortment of older drawings, paintings, or other crafts in case I ever need something at the last minute and my original craft idea doesn’t work out as intended.

Keep in mind that many of the techniques we used can very easily be adjusted for all kinds of different occasions, simplified for younger kids, or extended for older children.

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