Let's Get Crafty

Make every day a creative day with these ideas for art and craft projects to make, many using common materials found around the house. Don’t worry if the end product isn’t perfect--the process is the important part for you and your child.

Collections of Crafts

• The Artful Parent
  500+ easy, fun arts and crafts activities, including painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, and more.
• British Council: Crafts
  Check the craft download section for craft activities to download, color, and make.
• C.R.A.F.T.
  Creating really awesome fun things! Easy crafts for kids!
• Crayola Crafts
  The crayon experts have lots of crafts to spark your child’s imagination.
• Eighty Easy Creative Projects for Kids
  Art, science, and engineering projects designed to nurture curiosity and strengthen family bonds.
• Enchanted Learning Crafts for Kids
  This site offers lots and lots of craft ideas organized by topic. Best of all, they use materials found around the home.
• Kids' Crafts Basics
  Get beginner tips and advice on family craft projects, materials and tools, techniques and more.
• PBS for Parents: Find Ways to Play
  Explore fun, creative, and educational activities for the whole family.
• RED Ted Art
  Cute and easy crafts for kids.
• San Diego Zoo Kids - Children’s Crafts
  Find fun zoo crafts that children can keep for life.

Masks & More - plus Scissors Skills!

Masks are a fun craft project for any age. Here are several websites with mask templates to get you started. Design and make your own too!

• 10 Crafty Mask Ideas for Kids
• Mask Crafts for Kids
• PBS Kids: Arthur Masks

Paper crafts are easy and very inexpensive!

• Design Your Own Stamp
  Print the template and create your own stamp.
• 30+ Easy Paper Crafts for Kids
  A fun variety of craft project to do with your children.
• Free Paper Toys
  Print, cut, and glue your way to fun toys and boxes made just of paper. Some younger children will need help with making the toys, but everyone can enjoy an animal friend finger puppet.

Scissors skills are important for Kindergarten.

• Basic Cutting Activities
  Simple, fun craft ideas that incorporate using scissors.
• Ready, Steady, Cut: Scissors Skills for Preschoolers
  This article covers pre-scissors skills and the stages of scissors skill development.