We all love our little kids for they are fun to be around. These little kids surely turn into some devils in the holiday season. They have list of time in hand and are always looking for some mischief to accomplish. We always need ways to engage these tiny tots to keep them away from mischief. We have come up with some crafty ideas to tackle this situation. Children are glued to beautiful stuff. They love to try out different craft activities at home. It helps you in engaging the children for a long period of time, until their craft is complete.
Simple Art & Craft Ideas For Children of All Ages
1.Coffee Filter Butterflies
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This spring season make some clothes clips and coffee filter made butterflies. These butterflies are easy to make and can easily adorn the hallways and the threads hung in the rooms. They look beautiful and add color to your home. Start with a plain wooden cloth clip. Cut the coffee filter in four 90 degree sectors. These will become the wings of the butterfly. Now color the coffee filters. Attach these coffee filters to the cloth clip. Add small colorful pom poms to the upper front of the cloth clip. Also add colorful pipe cleaners as the antennas of the butterfly. Add googly eyes on top to complete the look.
2. DIY Cardboard Roll Binoculars
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These binoculars are a fun activity. They are very easy to make and can be customized. All you need is some cardboard roll. Now cut the roll in half to get equal sized cylinders. Paint the cylinders on the outside. Make two holes on the sides of the cylinders. Pass a thread through these holes. Now decorate the cylinders using stickers and art-forms. This will add to the beauty of these binoculars. These cute binoculars are a great pass time in the making as well as while your children play with these cute binoculars.
3. Funny Cardboard Roll Monsters
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This is a fun activity to be undertaken by the kids in the vacations. It is an easy to make DIY project. Take a cardboard roll and cut it in different lengths. You can paint these cylinders or cover them up in different colored sheets. Now add googly eyes and different mouth forms in the face. You can also add hands for more dramatic effect. Add spikes or horns for the monster effect. You can even make tails for the characters. This activity will provide wings to the creativity of the child.
4. Colorful Wool-Wrapped Rainbow Craft
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These colorful rainbows will surely delight your heart. These colorful rainbows are beautiful and easy to make. First of all make some arcs on the cardboard piece. Now cut these cardboard arcs out. Take some colored woolen thread and wind it onto the cardboard arc. Seal the ends of the wound thread. Now add small pom poms at the ends of the threaded arcs. Add nose, mouth, eyes to the rainbow arcs to make them animated. You can make faces of your choice. You can hang these beauties in your rooms are make bookmarks out of them.
5. Leaf & Feather DIY Kids Mask
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Masks are a staple of the childhood. Every child loves to be shrouded with a beautiful mask on special occasions. Some special occasions demand for special attention to detail and such mask making activities. You can make such masks easily. This DIY would be great fun for your kids as well. Cut an eyepiece for the two eyes of your kid. Take proper distance between the eyes. Now add big leaves and feather to the top of the eyepiece. This adds the drama to the mask. You can add glitter, ribbons, stickers to add to the beauty of the mask. Now your child can done this beautiful mask to any party.
6. Easter Bunny Goodies Cup Craft
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Easter weekend is a happening time of the year. Everyone is excited and filled with joy to the brim. Out of all the members of the family, the kids are the most joyful of all. So we here bring to you a very creative activity for the kids for their Easter goodies this year. Get some paper cups and ask the children to draw bunny faces and decorate the cup in the Easter vibe. You can provide them with differently colored paper, sharpie pens, glitter, bunny stickers etc. Now cut long bunny ears, color them and add them to the rim of the goodies cup. Your Easter goodies cup is ready. Fill these cups with candies and chocolates.
7. Build-A-Bug Decoration Activity
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This build a bug activity is a great activity to help your child develop motor skills and help them learn to differentiate between different colors. Provide your child with a big bug shape cut from a neutral colored sheet. Add legs to the bug and googly eyes for the face. Now ask your child to decorate this bug. You can provide your child with different material like colored sheets of paper, feathers, glitter, buttons etc. This will help your child to know the difference between various colors and shapes.
8. Cute Paper Plate Crab Craft
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This orange crab art is sweet. Take a paper plat and cut it in half. Now paint the half paper plate in orange color. Make legs for the crab and paint them with the same color as the paper plate. Paste the legs at the right place. Now add eyes to the crab and make a smiling face for the crab. This way your children will learn more about the animals, their habitat, food habits etc. In a creative manner. You can introduce your children to more animals in the same manner.
9. Easy Halloween Foil Spider DIY
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Halloween is a great time of the year. This spidey DIY for Halloween is a great addition to the celebrations. Your children can easily make this DIY project and it would look great at the Halloween celebrations. This project is easy to accomplish. All you need is residual aluminum foil, googly eyes and black colored hard sheet. Make a lump of the aluminium foil. Now add googly eyes to the front of the foil lump. Now cut out thin black legs for the spidey. Attach the legs to the bottom of the foil lump and your spidey is ready for the scary vibes this Halloween season.
10. Ice-Cream Stick Christmas Characters
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These Christmas characters are so much fun to make. You can make these with the younger children. Just collect some ice-cream sticks, clean them and store them. Do collect some waste decorative material. Now place double tape on the ice cream sticks and provide your child with the ice-cream sticks and the decorative material. Your child will be able to comprehend colors and shapes in this way. They will also achieve a sense of accomplishment through this activity. You can put up these characters for show after making smiley faces on one end of the ice-cream sticks.
11. Family Stick Puppet Craft
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This is a lovely family craft activity. You can make this a family project by letting every family member come up with their own representation or let the youngest one of this activity on their own. Provide your kid with ice cream sticks, help them paint the sticks. Paint the sticks in different colors for identification. Now add circular patches on one end. Help your child make faces of all the family members. Help them add hair through cotton or feathers. You can also use thread for the purpose.
12. Paper Heart Petal Flowers
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These paper flowers are really great and easy to make. They make for ideal gifts on teacher’s day and mother’s day. You can also make a few such flowers and place them in a pot. First of all draw and cut three heart shapes out of colored paper. Now pin them up at the base. Pass a pipe cleaner through the meeting point of the three heart shapes. This pipe cleaner acts as the stem of the flower. Add leaves cut from a green colored sheet to complete the look.
13. Gingerbread Man Candy Holder
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Gingerbread man is a great delicacy. We all love to savor the gingerbread. It looks cool to serve the delicacies in gingerbread artsy goodies carrier. First of all draw gingerbread men on a brown paper. Cut the shapes out. Draw smiley faces on the gingerbread man. This is an easy to make and creative Christmas Candies carrier. Your kids can surely complete this DIY on their own. Now place the candies on the tummy of the gingerbread men. Fold the hands over the candy as if the gingerbread man is holding the candy. Join the hands and your candy carrier is ready.
14. Twig Puppet Craft for Kids
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This is a great activity for your kid. First of all collect some twigs to be designed. Try to choose the straight twigs because they are easier to handle for the small kids. Then allow your kids to choose from a wide array of threads and colorful additions which can be used to design these figures. Help your kid wrap the wool and seal the ends. Add googly eyes to the face. You can also add hands, feathers, hair etc. Your kids can play puppets with these self made puppet figures. This helps your child become creative and the puppet game will help in developing story making and fiction understanding capabilities. You can also use these figures to tell stories to your kids.
15. Easy Paper Flower With Button Center
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This is an easy to make flower DIY. First of all take a square piece of colored paper. Now fold the paper multiple times. Cut the petals on the folded paper. Punch holes through the petals. This will give a patchy effect to the flower. Now add a button to the center of the flower. Try to use a contrasting colored button in the center. Add these paper flowers to cards, gifts, quotes etc. These look very beautiful and enchanting. Your kids will be able to make these flowers very easily.
We hope you liked this well curated list of easy to make DIY craftiest for your kids. We wish a very happy summer holidays to you and your kids. We will come back with more such content. Do give your valuable feedback in the comments section below.
