28 DIY Crafts For Kids With Easy Steps

Kids cannot stay still and it’s a universal fact. They need one thing or another to get indulged with, to pass their time and bust out their energy. So here we have brought to you these 28 DIY crafts for kids with easy steps and instructions. The kids can try their hands on these easy and fun crafts to make their homestay super fun and productive. From letting them get busy and have fun developing their motor skills and polishing their crafting talent, these crafts are going to be a lot helpful for your little ones. Kids have summer holidays to spend at home so these easy crafts are best to keep them in contact with creativity and fun together during summertime.

Also, these easy DIY crafts are to be done with little help from mommies and daddies so grab this opportunity to spend the best quality time with your kids. The crafts offer you a big bunch of cool and fun things to make with your kids like space crayons, fairy house, weaving rainbow fish, natural tic tac toe game, and much much more. Also, many of the crafts are the ones that the kids can make and use as gifts like bookmarks, photo and spoon flowers for the mothers, bookworm pencil toppers, etc. All these crafty projects have tutorial links attached so that you and your kids can understand them easily before trying. Happy crafting to you and your Kiddos!

Other great Craft ideas!

Tattoo Printed Planter:

You and your kids can shake hands for a fun weekend craft of this tattoo printed planter. Yes, using the tattoo print paper and the inject printer you can create a lovely tattoo of wildflowers on the paper. Then taking a planter pot and transferring this tattoo on the planter is a boost up to your pretty summer décor.

Tutorial: akailochiclife

Space Crayons Tutorial:

Your space lovers would really enjoy doing this space crayon tutorial with you. The pretty and bright colored crayons are made in the shape of the stars to look so fascinating for the space fascinators. Also, these star crayons have been poured with glitter to let them carry the impression of stardust. So get your hands on colorful crayons to melt in the mold of the stars.

Tutorial: minieco

How To Make Temporary Tattoos:

Kids are in love with the body stickers and here are these temporary tattoos which are much more fun and fascinating. Your kids can make custom tattoos using the temporary printed tattoo paper with their desired shapes and colors. You can scan and print out these tattoos to have so much fun with. Details here!

Tutorial: hellowonderful

Sandpaper Printed T-shirt:

Let your kids enjoy the pretty art and craft skills and that too with so much fun. Here is this fun activity of the sandpaper printed t-shirt that the kids can enjoy doing on their own. The kids can make a fun drawing on the sandpaper using crayons just like the rainbow. Then you can help them transfer this rainbow on the t-shirt using parchment paper and the iron. Details here!

Tutorial: alphamom

Fairy House For Kids:

Little girls do believe in the fairies so anything related to fairies is so much fun and excitement for them. Here is the project of making this lovely fairy house for the kids. It takes only a few things like a plastic container, craft sticks, glue, colorful buttons, and the stone to shape up this adorable fairy house with the kids.

Tutorial: livingwellmom

Basic Sewing Skills Ribbon Bookmark:

Let your kids make something fun and useful at home and these sewing skills ribbon bookmarks are the best. You need colorful ribbons, elastic bands, and the buttons to easily make a bunch of these cute and button closed bookmarks. The kids can make and use them as the lovely gifts for the class fellows or family members too.

Tutorial: mybusybeehives

Face Art DIY:

Let your kids have some indoor fun with this face art DIY. The kids have to draw and print out faces with least face features and then cut out the facial features like eye, nose, and lips from the magazines and newspaper. They can have fun completing their bare feature drawings with this magazine cut out features. Details here!

Tutorial: dadaenfantterrible

DIY Outdoor Sound Wall/Music Station:

Kids love to create their music of noise with anything around them. So make this well established DIY outdoor sound wall music station. This will let your kids be busy for a long time and have so much fun. The music station is created with a wooden wall being mounted up with a variety of queer items like a colander, a metal fish, a clover mold, dry basket, and more. The kids can use spoons and whiskers to create their favorite music.

Tutorial: funathomewithkids

Mason Jars Craft for School Supplies:

Those projects are the best that you can share with your kids just like this Mason jar craft for the school supplies. Yes, a mason jar has been turned into the crayon or pencil organizer for the kid’s homework desk. Using the white primer and the acrylic paint hues in bright, the Mason jar has been painted with a cute pokemon like face and the crayon pencils. Learn more details here!

Tutorial: colormadehappy

Funfetti Play Dough:

If your girls and boys are showing some interest in the baking then make this funfetti play dough to play with. Using the sugar powder and the funfetti frosting you can easily make this colorful and cute looking play dough. Using the molds and cutters kids can make a lot of cakes and cupcakes or any other toy out of this dough. Being edible the dough is perfectly safe to play with.

Tutorial: smartschoolhouse

Funny Face Flip Book:

Make your summer afternoons the most fun with some crafty activities just like this funny face flipbook. You need white cardstock paper, metal book rings, cardboard, markers, and the googly eyes to create this super fun and create funny face flipbook. The kids can do this project with their friends too.

Tutorial: iheartcraftythings

Firemans Air Tank Play:

Kids love to have fun with the role plays and here is the fireman’s air tank play to keep your little ones busy in summers. Using the empty soda bottles, some paint, and the vinyl tube you can easily create them the air tank. They would love running around and extinguishing the fire with their air tank and feel proud.

Tutorial: crayonboxchronicles

Troll Painted Rocks:

Rocks are an integral part of the home décor projects for the summer. The kids can turn these summer rocks into their favorite movie Troll characters using the paint and the feather in the bright and exciting hues. This project of the troll painted rocks is super fun and creative for your kids to work on for sure.

Tutorial: thekeeperofthecheerios

Weaving Rainbow Fish (Kids Craft)

The little kids are going to love this weaving rainbow fish. First of all, cut out a fish from a white cardstock paper and create multiple slits in its center. Then take rainbow-colored paper strips to weave them through these slits and enjoy as a super cute fish craft. This project is surely going to develop the motor skills of your juniors.

Tutorial: craftymorning

Firework Tie Dye Shirts:

Tie and dye are so much of a fun activity that you should make your girls learn it too. Here is the project of a firework tie-dye shirt to perform with your girls this summer. The girls can draw flags and firework on white t-shirts using sharpie markers. Then spray some rubbing alcohol on the shirt and tie it to come out super cute dyed.

Tutorial: athriftymom

Felt Unicorn Craft – A Great Tween Craft

Kids love unicorns and now with your help, they can make themselves a super cute felt unicorn. Felt is so soft and thus super easy and fun to work with. So grab white felt to work up the unicorn body and the colored felt to cut out the rainbow hair of the unicorn. The unicorn is sewed and a little stuffed and it’s there that they need your help.

Tutorial: thatkidscraftsite

Nature Crafts for Kids – DIY Tic Tac Toe Game

Summers are for outdoor fun and now your kids can enjoy this fun handmade DIY tic tac toe game by making it on their own. The game is easy to make with a wooden slice as the base, conkers, wooden branches or sticks, and the paint with a clear sealer. This is such a fun and cool summer activity for the kids.

Tutorial: messylittlemonster

DIY Craft Stick Harmonica {Kids Activity}

Here is another super fun activity for the kids to enjoy during the summers. This lovely DIY craft stick harmonica is the fun thing to make and later enjoy on. You would need wide craft sticks, paper strips, colorful rubber bands, and the toothpicks to make the harmonicas. The kids can decorate them using a lot of colorful gems, stones, and stickers.

Tutorial: skiptomylou

Lime Scented DIY Melt & Pour Cactus Soaps:

Here is another fun activity to perform with your kids. This lime-scented DIY melt and pour cactus soaps are the best thing to indulge in with your kids. Get your hands on the soap, melt it, and add lime essential oil to it for the scented. Use cactus molds and the green colorant to get the cute cactus soaps to use as gifts.

Tutorial: lydioutloud

Airplane DIY Craft Mobile for Kids:

It’s time to give your baby’s room a chic makeover and starting with this lovely airplane DIY craft mobile is a great idea. Using the foam airplanes, yarns, and the hander you can easily make this craft mobile with colorful airplanes. This mobile is also going to be a great project to share with your kids. Details here!

Tutorial: blog.darice

DIY Halloween Crafts for Kids:

Kids love to have fun with Halloween décor and costumes and this time they can help you make this fun Halloween craft. The Frankenstein wall hanging is easy to make with a green foam sheet. Create hair and smile with a black marker and add googly eyes. Use an embroidery hoop to make it hang over the walls.

Tutorial: craftyhousewife

Mother’s Day Gift Ideas that Kids Can Actually Make – Spoon Flowers for Mother’s Day

Nothing can bring a smile on the face of a mother than a handmade gift from her kids. Yes, on this Mother’s day you can help your kids to make this pretty spoonflower with pot as the best gift for the mothers. These cute flowers are easy to make with plastic spoons, styrofoam cups, paint, and tissue paper. Details here!

Tutorial: craftymorning

How to Make a Cardboard Box Marble Labyrinth Game:

There are so many things that can keep the kids busy when it’s rainy outside and this marble labyrinth game is one of them. Using a cardboard box, colorful craft sticks, X acto knife, and the glue you can easily install this game in an hour or less. The kids can play it for hours with their favorite colorful marbles.

Tutorial: frugalfun4boys

Book Worm ~ Quick and Easy Kid Craft

Bring the term book worm in practical and make these super cute and colorful bookworm pencil toppers for the kids. The kids can easily make them and use them as cute and simple gifts for their friends while going back to school. You need pipe cleaners, colorful pom poms, googly eyes, and the glue to work up this craft.

Tutorial: athriftymom

Easy DIY Crafts – Kid Created Canvas Letters

It’s time to bring some custom appeal to the home décor for the summer and kids can do that. Yes, with these easy DIY kid-created canvass letters you can perfectly personalize the home décor or particularly kids room décor. The kids will need white canvass, colorful acrylic paint, and the masking tape to workup this letter art.

Tutorial: easydiycraftideas

Kids Crafts – Easter Bunny Treat Cup

Easter is one of the most fun times for the summers and now your kids can help you to make some Easter preparations. Using the disposable cups, colorful pipe cleaners, pom poms, and paper grass the kids can make these lovely treat cups with handles. They are surely going to enjoy this cute and fun activity.

Tutorial: thetaylor-house

Colorful Crafts for Kids – DIY Popcorn Tree for Fall

Not only for the summers their crafts for the kids to create for the fall too. Here is this super cute popcorn tree for the fall that the kids can easily make. Just draw a tree on a white paper and then add orange, brown, and yellow-colored popcorn to this tree. Such crafts really help kids to grow in their skills and talent.

Tutorial: thepopcornfactory

Kids Crafts – Photo Flower Pot

Help your kids make the most interesting and the cute mother’s day gift for you or their grandmother with this cute photo flower pot. The cute paper flowers are made with the craft sticks and wrapped with a green pipe cleaner and have the kid’s picture in the center. The pot is filled with paper grass before planting this lovely bunch of photo flowers inside.

Tutorial: thesimpleparent