As the adults can sit idle for the whole day and still enjoy it, the kids are totally opposite. The brimming energy in them cannot let them sit free in the house in any way. So they need to get engaged in one thing or another to bust their energy and pass their time in an active and fun way. What can be better than letting them indulge in some fun and exciting crafts to not only pass their time but also learning a lot of new skills too? So here we have brought to you these 28 DIY easy crafts for kids to make and enjoy to the fullest.
There is a huge variety of ideas and crafts in this round-up that kids can try according to their age, taste, talent, and mood too. The toddlers would enjoy getting messy and dirty with painting projects. The girls would love to try out their hands with the pretty home decorating crafts like creating vases, paper plate and egg carton flowers, egg frames, and more. The crafts like the DIY fairy garden tic tac toe travel bag game and painting the Easter eggs would get boys and girls equally excited. To learn the details of these ideas and more you need to browse them via provided links given right below.
Frozen Smoothie Paint Recipe:
Make the summers more enjoyable for your kids with the idea of this frozen smoothie paint recipe. Using the ice, shaving cream, and the temperature paint you can easily make this yummy and colorful frozen smoothie paint for your toddlers. They would love to enjoy a summer afternoon with this smoothie paint. Get the recipe here!
Tutorial: learnplayimagine
Easy Recipe for Homemade Peanut Butter Dog Treats:
Kids love the other furry kids at home and want to do so much for them. Here is the easy recipe for the homemade peanut butter dog treats that you can make with your kids. The dog bone shaped treat cookies are going to be the favorite of your pets. They are easy to make with simple ingredients like milk, peanut butter, and milk. Full recipe here!
Tutorial: bigdiyideas
How to Make an Etched Glass Water Bottle:
Here is another great idea to share with your kids so grab your simple and plain glass bottle and etch it up for a gorgeous and funked up look. The things you need are the Martha Stewart adhesive silkscreens and the etch cream along with some other crafty tools and supplies. So check out the details of the idea here!
Tutorial: creativegreenliving
Put a Bird on It – Nest In Frame
If your kids are missing going out and see the birds then it’s time to call them inside. So here is the idea of put a bird on its nest in the frame. So grab a wooden frame with a square hollow space in the center. Fill this pace with the dry grass and the blue painted rocks so that it becomes a welcoming sign for the birds. Kids would love to lend you a helping hand in this craft. Details here!
Tutorial: makinglemonadeblog
Faux Gold Objet:
Tutorial: designsponge
How to Make and Grow Your Own Crystal Geodes – Cool Science Experiment for Kids
Geodes are the type of rocks having the layers or lines hidden inside them. How about making these cute and colorful crystal geodes at home as the cool science experiments. This is going to be a fun summer craft for the kids to do on a sunny day in or outside the house. Check out the easy and fun details of the idea right here!
Tutorial: feelslikehomeblog
Make Dollar Store Robin’s Eggs for Spring:
Birds and their eggs make us remember the spring and its sweet coming. So get ready for the spring with this super cute and fun craft that you can perform with your kids at home. Just get a pack of the faux eggs from the dollar store and paint them all blue with ink spots on them for a realistic look. Kids would love working on these eggs for sure. Details here!
Tutorial: madincrafts
Fabric and Lace Bow Tote:
Are you looking for a fun craft that you can do with your girls? If yes then here is the idea of making this fabric and lace bow tote. Yes just grab the left out fabric pieces from the fabric stash and make a bow to attach it over a tote and make it look super cute and quirky. You can do the same to other tote bags using the lace piece. Follow the details here!
Tutorial: flamingotoes
Paint Scrape Note Cards:
Revive the tradition of exchanging cards with your dear and near ones here is the paint scrape note cards idea for you and your kids. Using the paper and the paint you and your kids can spend a fun afternoon creating some of these lovely cards to send off your wishes in a heartwarming way. Learn more about the idea here!
Tutorial: persialou
Mini Coaster Clipboards In 30 Minutes:
You are instantly going to fall in love with these adorable and cute mini coaster clipboards. The things which make them look so catchy and cool are their pretty and vibrant paint hues and the glittery appeal. You can use these cute small clipboards to use your notes. Even the kids would love to make these with you for being too tempting. Details of the idea here!
Tutorial: coffeeandvanilla
DIY Tic-Tac-Toe Travel Game Bag:
Another cool and fun are here that you would love to make right off this week. Here is this DIY tic tac toe travel gram bag. Just make a simple game bag using the simple plain fabric and then using some printed fabric stripes to create the tic tac toe pattern on it. Using colorful buttons you can play the fun game. Details here!
Tutorial: premeditatedleftovers
DIY Faux Crystal Knobs:
Promote home decor development in your kids with ideas like this DIY faux crystal knobs. There are only three things that you need to make this lovely pair of crystal knobs. So get your kids some faux crystals, glue, and the flat knob bases and they would easily whip it off. You can follow complete idea details here!
Tutorial: rainonatinroof
Seashell Garland:
Here is another fun project that is easy enough to be made by the kids too. This pretty and cute seashell garland makes the perfect summer decor for your parties as to the wall backdrop. The only things needed are the faux starfish and some twine. Not only walls this garland would make a great ornament for your chalkboard mantlepiece too. Details here!
Tutorial: housebyhoff
DIY Flower Push Pins:
Create a lovely bulletin board spot in your foyer or hall with the help of your kids. They would love to lend you a helping hand in making this super cute and colorful bunch of the DIY flower push pins. So cut out the only flower part from the floral stems and then using the hot glue gun attach them to the push pins and it’s done. More details here
Tutorial: popsugar
DIY Fairy Garden:
What would be more fascinating as a craft for the kids than this gorgeous and super cute DIY fairy garden? A simple terracotta pot has been turned into this gorgeous fairy garden with colorful wooden fair houses, a small fairy garden with flowers and fence, and the lovely rocks on the pathway. Kids would love spending a summer afternoon on this fun project. Details here!
Tutorial: 1pureheart
Egg Carton Flowers:
Let the kids pass their time in the most exciting and fun way by shaping up these pretty and colorful egg carton flowers. So cut out the egg carton with four egg pockets and let the kids paint them the way they want. Once dry, ask kids to glue the colorfully striped straw to these flowers and they are so beautifully done. Follow the details here!
Tutorial: iheartartsncrafts
DIY Easter Egg Button Craft:
Bunnies and eggs are the symbols or the Easter and the spring. So here is this fun DIY Easter egg button craft to bring the lovely spring vibes to your spaces. So get a simple frame and draw an egg shape in the center of it. Then take a lot of varied sized buttons and the glue to fill up this egg with them and your pretty table or shelf display is ready. Tutorial details here!
Tutorial: acultivatednest
Plastic Spoon Bugs on a Branch:
Letting kids in crafts is the best way to let them unleash their energy. This pretty and fun plastic spoon bugs on a branch is another fun craft to keep your kids sane. The spoon section has been painted to like the cute and colorful bugs with the brown painted handles. Then cut out leaves from the green felt with a cut to let the spoon slide through it. More details of the idea here!
Tutorial: craftsbyamanda
Stenciled Burlap Bunny Plaques:
Bring the Easter Holiday vibes to your spaces and that too with a lot of fun by doing these stenciled burlap bunny plaques. First of all, take the wooden plaques and paint them in lovely and vibrant spring hues. Then take burlap pieces and stencil the cute bunny shapes on them to later attach them over the plaques. Hang them over the walls or the entrance using rope and they are ready to adorn your spaces.
Tutorial: ohmy-creativ
Plastic Bottle Flowers:
Let your kids learn the importance of recycling with the project of this plastic bottle flowers idea. Cut out the top section of the plastic bottle and cut it out with a few petals. Then grab the pretty and spring theme paint hues to paint up these petals in double hues and later decorate your garden spaces with it. Follow easy details here!
Tutorial: thechillydog
Bunny Wreath Tutorial! {Easter Craft Ideas}
This bunny wreath is the most genius and the most gorgeous idea that you would ever see for the Easter decor. You need two round wreath rings and two zero shaped or oval shaped wreath rings to shape up he bunny body and ears. Decorate the bunny wreath with pretty floral stems and a lovely ribbon bow and it’s going to adorn your spaces so cutely. Check out the details here!
Tutorial: sprinklesomefun
Cute Easter Craft – Easy Easter Candy Jars
For kids, a Holiday means yummy candies and chocolates. So this season of the Easter holidays than can not only enjoy getting and eating candies but making these pretty Easter candy jars too. The jars have been decorated with the bunny theme using glitter, googly eyes, pom-poms, and the craft foams. One of these bunny themed candy-filled jars would make a great gift idea too. Details here!
Tutorial: crazylittleprojects
Paper Plate Flowers:
Learning to make flowers is the basics of art and craft skills so let your kids have fun making these paper plate flowers. The paper plates have been rolled and cut into petals and then painted gorgeously to turn out as the pretty crafted flowers. Once kids have done making these flowers you can use them in your home decor. Follow the details here!
Tutorial: muslinandmerlot
Make Your Own Egg Carton Tulips:
Let your kids contribute to the home decor by helping you make these super pretty and cute looking egg carton tulips. Just separate the egg pockets and paint them in the hues of tulips like pink, red and yellow. Then add pipe cleaners to them as the stems and using a bunch of them in the vases as the lovely spring or summer vase decor. Details here!
Tutorial: carefreecrafts
Adorable Easter Centerpiece:
Here is another super cute and functional Easter craft with this adorable Easter centerpiece. The first thing you need to make this pretty centerpiece is the clear glass vase with a standing post base. Then fill this vase with layers of candies and peep bunnies and topping it off with the gorgeous and colorful bunch of the artificial flowers. Details here!
Tutorial: twosisterscrafting
Garden Hose Spring Wreath:
Now you can turn your garden utilities into a fun and creative home decor piece. So learn this garden hose spring wreath tutorial to make the funkiest and cool kind of wreath for the spring welcoming. Just wrap up the colored hose in the round and decorate it with pretty flowers, bow-tied ribbons, garden gloves, and butterfly clips. Check out the details here!
Tutorial: createcraftlove
Round Suncatcher Craft:
One of the most popular kid’s crafts for the summers is making the gorgeous and colorful sun catchers. Here is the idea of this round sun catcher craft. The transparent plastic lids have been decorated with colorful tissue papers using the PVA glue and turned into the pretty sun catchers in just no time but with a lot of fun. Details here!
Tutorial: kidscraftroom
How to Make Piggy Banks From Plastic Bottles:
Let your kids learn the art of saving by making the piggy banks on their own and saving money over their purchase from the market. So take the bigger and a little wide empty plastic bottles and add to it wooden beaded feet and the colored paper ears. Kids would love making these piggy banks and then saving money in it. Follow the details here!
Tutorial: thebrookchildcare
