Kids Craft Ideas

Here is a great selection of crafts to do with your kids. I will be adding to this list all the time so keep checking.

How to Make Play Dough

Blob Butterfly Painting

Collage Pictures

Window Craft

Lacing Cards

How to make a Hot Air Balloon

How to Make Play Dough

Ingredients

1 Cup of Cooking Salt

4 Tablespoons of Cream of Tartar

2 Cups of Plain Flour

2 Tablespoons of Cooking Oil

2 Cups of Boiling Water

Your choice of Food Colouring

• Mix 5-10 drops of food colouring into the boiling water in a small jug
• In a large mixing bowl mix together all dry ingredients
• Make a hole in the middle of the dry ingredients and add the oil and coloured water.
• Using a wooden spoon mix all ingredients together being careful not to burn yourself with the hot water.
• Mix all ingredients together until well combined, it doesn't look like play dough yet.
• Leave it to cool. Once it is cool pick up large handfuls and knead together between your hands until it resembles play dough

Blob Butterfly Painting

My kids love to do this!

What you need

Paper any size, coloured or white

Different coloured paint (a great place to get paint is your local discount shop, it is really cheap)

• There is different ways to do Butterfly painting. You can pour paint into a used egg container, and the child can use a paint brush to make the blobs on the paper. Alternately you can use paint bottles that can be squeezed. My kids do this as it means less mess to claen up after.
• After they have squeezed the paint onto the paper you get them to refold the paper and rub all over to press the the paint onto both sides.
• Then you reopen the paper to leave it to dry.

Collage Pictures

What you need

• Paper any size
• Glue
• Sticky tape

Anything the kids want to collect, here are some ideas:

• leaves
• bark
• sand
• twigs
• wool
• felt
• glitter
• cut out pictures from old books or old magazines
• scrap material
• stickers
• feathers
• stamps
• glitter pens

All the kids need to do is be let loose. They love to glue and paster and stick things down. My kids could do this for an hour or so, they love it.

Window Craft

What you need

Clear Sticky Contact

A collection of things for kids to stick down. (Refer to the Collage Pictures requirements for ideas)

Paper any size

• I use the paper to create a frame. Refer to the pictures below. You then cover one side of the frame in the clear contact and remove the backing. This means the kids have a sticky surface to stick things to but the paper frame allows it to stay flat and creates an area for the kids to work within.
• Once they have completed their picture cover the reverse side of the frame with another layer of contact.
• This art work can be stuck on their windows with some bluetak. Kids love to be able to see their work on display.

Lacing Cards

What you need

Heavy Cardboard

Photos or pictures from Magazines

Glue

Hole Punch

Old or New Shoe laces

Scissors

• Grab some old photos or pictures from magazines that your kids like. Another option is to use clip art from your computer.
• Glue these pictures onto the heavy cardboard and usine a pair of scissors cut around the picture leaving a 1-2cm border.
• Using your hole punch make intermittent holes around the border every 2-3cms
• Leave to dry.
• Tie a knot in one end of the shoelacebefore showing the child how to thread the shoelaces through the holes to lace around the picture.

How to Make a Hot Air Balloon

This is a special craft for all the kids that love Hot Air Balloons as much as my kids do!

What you need

A small box

4 Straws

A balloon

Sticky tape

• Place a straw in each corner of the box and secure with sticky tape. All 4 straws must be secured.
• Blow up the balloon and place balloon over the straws.
• Attach the straws to the edge of the balloon with sticky tape.