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HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES & ART PROJECTS

Make creative time extra fun with free arts and crafts for kids! Designed to spark imagination and hands-on creativity, this collection of craft projects and art activities features everything from simple paper crafts to colorful seasonal DIYs. Whether you need easy crafts for kids to fill a rainy afternoon or art activities for a classroom, these arts and crafts ideas are a breeze to prep, create and enjoy!

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Four No-Sew Toaster Pastries Craft on blue blackground

Toaster Pastry No-Sew Craft for Kids

preschooler making arts and crafts

Easy Preschool Art Activities

DIY bug hotel craft for kids

DIY Bug Hotel Craft

assortment of homemade squishy toys craft for kids

DIY Squishy Toys Craft

assortment of butterfly art project made from natural materials

Nature Butterfly Craft

three crafted picture frames for kids

Fancy Picture Frame Craft for Kids

DIY scrappy bugs insect craft for kids

Scrappy Bugs Craft

DIY animal bookmark crafts on blue background

Page Pals DIY Bookmark Crafts

cardboard vase craft holding yellow flowers on pink and white background

Cardboard Flower Vase Craft

upcycled planters craft made of cans and decorated with faces

DIY People Planters Upcycled Craft

Vibrant jellyfish craft made from coffee filters and cupcake liners with tentacles made from ribbons and colorful fuzzy sticks

DIY “Floating” Jellyfish Craft

Parent and child baking together in kitchen

Top 10 Creative and Educational Activities for Kids

Kids self-portrait coloring page printable from Highlights magazine

Draw Yourself: Kids Self-Portrait Printable Coloring Sheet

The image shows a colorful craft with the words "Future Voter" prominently displayed. The design features bold red, white, and blue colors, arranged in a patriotic style. The text is centered in a paper cutouts to add a festive, child-friendly appeal, emphasizing the theme of civic engagement for young future voters.

Election Day Activities and Crafts for Kids

Nature art hanging on clothes line

Make Nature Paint

A drawing of a young girl demonstrating how to make a paper mache bowl.

How to Make Paper-Mache Bowls

Picture of a cardboard guitar craft that is an outdoor activity to do with kids.

How to Hold an Outdoor Concert

Mother's Day Printable

Mother’s Day Gift Printable

Highlights Cutout Crown Printable

Coronation Day Activity for Kids

Toddler watering a row of red tulips.

6 Fun Spring and Easter Craft Ideas for Kids

Highlights reward chart printable

Reward Chart Printable

Book of How cover next to an image of a constellation map.

Science Experiments

Book of How Excerpt: If the Solar Eclipse Ignites Your Kids’ Love of Space

Silly Wish List printable for kids

Highlights Holiday “Silly Wish” List Printable

Two boys and a girl covered in confetti and holding Happy New Year signs.

13 Kid-Friendly Activities to Ring in the New Year

First Day Printable

First-Day-of-School Chart Highlights Printable

DIY cardboard cups supply caddy.

Back-to-School Crafts for Kids

A pretend candle made from a cardboard tube and construction paper flame.

DIY Flameless Cardboard Tube Candle Craft

Mosaic holiday scene cards.

How to Make Holiday Collage Cards

Child’s face illuminated in the dark with glow sticks.

31 Glow-in-the-Dark Ideas for Halloween Fun

Handmade Gifts for Teachers

4 Homemade Gifts for Teachers

6 pool noodle crafts

6 Pool Noodle Crafts That Are Perfect for Summer Fun

Valentine's Day Crafts

7 Crafts for Valentine’s Day

A red paper cane shape with cotton balls glued to it.

7 Christmas Crafts for All Ages

Two black-painted pumpkins, one with a cat design and one with a bat.

12 No-Carve Pumpkin Decorating Ideas

A small plastic bottle cap, stick of chalk and small ball sit below a chalk line drawn on the pavement.

A Fun Sidewalk Chalk Game For All Ages

Paper turkeys with feathers made from sections of cupcake wrappers.

5 Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids

Raindrop Toss game pieces and plates with point scores.

4 Spring Crafts to Welcome Spring into Your Home

A painting made with watercolor bubbles.

How To Create Art with Colored Bubbles

preschoolers makings arts and crafts in summer

31 Arts and Crafts for Kids to Make at Home

Family Fall activities list to print

15 Family-Friendly Fall Activities Printable

Cookies shaped like Christmas trees with peanut butter cup bases.

Holiday Cookie Place Setting Favors

Water bottles with glow-in-the-dark sticks.

Glow-in-the-Dark Bottle Bowling

Styrofoam cups decorated like snowmen stacked in a pyramid.

Snowman Stacking Cups Craft

Do-it-yourself horseshoe game made from cardboard.

Tabletop Horseshoe Game for Kids

Cardboard mailbox decorated for Valentine’s Day cards.

Valentine’s Day Mailbox Craft

Jar of rice with objects hidden inside for kids to find and count.

Hidden Objects Portable Treasure Hunt Game

Bubbling slime experiment in a glass jar.

DIY “Bubbling Slime” Recipe for Kids

Homemade treasure map.

DIY Hidden Treasure Map for Kids

Fishing pole made from a tree branch and fish made from chenille sticks.

DIY Magnetic Fishing Game for Kids

Yarn balls in different sizes and colors.

4 Awesome Colored-String and Yarn Crafts

Completed leaping dolphins craft made from a tissue box and CD.

How to Make a “Leaping Dolphins” Craft

Homemade tabletop basketball hoop made from cardboard.

Tabletop Basketball Craft for Kids

Girl wearing DIY Cowboy Costume

DIY Cowboy Costume for Kids

Bowls of colorful face paint and brushes on table.

How to Make Homemade Face Paint

A house drawn with bath crayons on a tiled bathroom wall.

How to Make Bath Crayons

Smiling emoticons made with glitter.

5 Glitter Crafts for Kids

Image of child’s hands in a bowl of colorful mini-rubber bands.

4 Clever Rubber Band Crafts

Three homemade cards for Father’s Day.

DIY Father’s Day Cards

Girl playing with cardboard bobsled track.

How To Make a Speedy Bobsled

Group of DIY Mini-Cereal Box Puppets

How to Make Mini-Cereal Box Puppets

Array of craft bottle caps

3 Fun Crafts to Make with Bottle Caps

Example of Christmas printables

Hide-and-Find Christmas Ornaments Printable

Four family bingo pictures showing kindness games

Printable Kindness Bingo Boards

Shiny, foil-covered bookmarks that look like space ships.

DIY Spaceship Bookmark Craft

Cups covered with penguin cozies.

Penguin Cozy Cup Craft

Board with edible snowmen

How to Make Edible Meringue Snowmen

A completed snow globe with a snowman inside.

How to Make A DIY Snow Globe

A napkin ring made of craft sticks in the shape of the Star of David.

Hanukkah Crafts Your Kids Will Love

Two children playing with dreidels and gelt

DIY Dreidel Game for Hanukkah

A play menorah made of painted foam and candy kisses.

DIY Candy Menorah Craft

A napkin-holder craft made of craft sticks glued in the shape of a star.

Hanukkah Napkin Holder Craft

A completed heart spinner craft and pieces of another in progress.

Valentine’s Day Heart Spinner Craft

A completed mustache lollipop card.

Mustache Lollipop Valentine’s Day Craft

Valentine cupid arrows made from drinking straws and patterned paper.

Cupid’s Arrow Valentine’s Day Craft

Valentine hearts with wax-resist messages.

Secret Message Valentine’s Day Craft

A Hidden Pictures puzzle scene of kids in a science class.

Science Lab Hidden Pictures Puzzle

Five Hidden Pictures puzzle pages to print, solve and color.

Printable Hidden Pictures Coloring Pages for Kids

A glass of water with coloring beginning to swirl in it.

Science Experiments

Which Mixes Colors Faster, Hot or Cold Water?

A printable thank-you card for kids to color and give.

Printable Teacher Thank You Card

Decorative, leave blank

3 Crafts to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Grandparents Day Printable

Free Grandparents’ Day Printable Card

You can recycle a cup, a water bottle and plastic wrap to make a fun science activity at home.

How to Make a Recycled Microscope

Printable Turkey Placemat for Thanksgiving

Free Printable Turkey Placemat for Thanksgiving

Printable paper castle and dragons.

Create a Castle Craft

A family at a Fourth of July cookout.

3 Olympic Crafts and Activities for Kids

Easter eggs sitting in dew-covered grass.

Screen Free (ish) Sundays: 5 Fun Activities to Do with Your Kids on Easter Sunday

A small hand placing daisies in a big hand.

Screen Free(ish) Sunday: 5 Activities to Do With Your Kids This Spring

A parent and child lying on the floor, drawing.

Screen-Free(ish) Sundays: 5 Crafts That Celebrate Self-Expression and Creativity

A child dressed in a cardboard box like a robot.

9 Things to Do With a Cardboard Box

A child about to push the first domino in a row of multi-colored dominoes.

45 Creative Things to Do When Kids Are Bored

A child making crafts at a table full of paint tubes and pieces of construction paper

Easy Cardboard Tube Crafts Kids of All Ages Can Make

A smiling bee by a flower and the words “Thank You.”

Printable Thank You Cards

A child standing in front of a window and excitedly holding up a clock on Leap Year day

29 Fun Ways to Spend Leap Year’s Extra Hours

Decorative candles with a variety of fresh foods

How Do You Celebrate: Kwanzaa

A child’s hand holding a pencil poised over a sheet of paper with the word “dear” on it.

5 Lesser-Known December Holidays Your Kind Kid Can Celebrate

A child’s hands holding a paper butterfly over a table, with several sheets of paper, a pair of scissors, a glue stick and pencil on the table

17 Craft Supplies to Have at Home

2 adults and 2 kids in winter coats, lying on a pile of fall leaves

Screen Free (ish) Sunday: 29 Fun Fall Activities for Kids

Paper bag craft with printed shop fronts glued to them.

Easy Crafts for Preschoolers: How To Make A Paper Bag Village

Learn how to make Dinosaur Feet from Cardboard with your kids! Be the first to roam the house in the morning wearing these three-toed dinosaur feet.

How to Make Dinosaur Feet

DIY sunflower pens in a jar.

How To Make Flowers Out of Pens

Framed sun catcher dart.

How To Make A Suncatcher With Glue and Paint

Folded cut-out cards that look like sloths holding hearts.

Mail-a-Hug DIY Craft

Three crafted robots sitting on a bookshelf.

Goofy Robots: A Make-and-Play Robot Craft

A disposable cup turned into a magnifier.

How to Build a Water Microscope

A child playing a guitar made from a box and rubber bands.

How to Make a Recycled DIY Guitar

A painted paper plate and bottles of paint.

How to Make Spinning Paint Art

Help your kid take off with this airplane craft. This string puppet plane is a great art activity that turns into a creative toy with tons of play opportunities.

How to Make a DIY String Puppet Plane

An art bprint made from shapes cut out of foam trays.

Easy-to-Make Prints with Blocks and Paint

Three vibrant paper butterflies with ribbons resting on a wooden table surface.

How to Make DIY Craft Butterflies

Coffee filter flowers in vase

How to Make Coffee Filter Flowers

A puppet stage and hand puppets made from socks and old gloves.

How to Make Monster Sock Puppets

Fun beachy sea creature flip flops.

DIY Flip Flop Craft: Beachy Creature Feet

A hinged grabber toy eating a plastic building block.

DIY Jointed “Green Gobbler” Monster Craft

Interlocking cards made from cardboard with slots cut in the sides.

How to Make Interlocking Building Blocks

A jar of homemade soap bubbles and homemade wands.

How to Make Homemade Bubbles and Bubble Wands

A child peeling wash tape from a watercolor painting.

Rainy Day Craft That Will Have Your Kids Painting Up a Storm

A kid playing with pool noodle houses.

How to Build a Pool Noodle Village

The Raindrop Toss game, with raindrop sacks and paper plates painted with scores.

The Raindrop Toss Game Is the Perfect Rainy-Day Activity

Mini windsocks made from cardboard tubes and yarn.

Easy-to-Make Colorful Windsock

A DIY tissue paper turkey craft napkin holder.

How to Make a Turkey DIY Napkin Holder

Paper turkey craft with handwritten notes on the feathers.

This Colorful Turkey Craft Shows How Your Family Is Thankful

Paper turkeys with feathers made from sections of cupcake wrappers.

How to Make a Paper Turkey Out of Cupcake Liners

Foam turkey decorated with craft feathers.

DIY Thanksgiving Treat Box

Uncarved pumpkin with black and white paint streaks.

Easy-To-Make No-Brush Halloween Pumpkin Painting

Rolled paper candy canes.

DIY Paper Craft Candy Cane Ornament

A felt snowman to dress up in hat, mittens, scarf and more.

Here’s How to Make a Dress-Up Felt Snowman

A reindeer gift bag made from a paper bag.

How to Make a Reindeer Treat Bag

Cinnamon-scented ornaments cut out with cookie cutters.

How to Make Cinnamon-Scented Ornaments

A confetti popper for July 4th.

Fun and Safe Confetti Poppers for Independence Day

An art supplies caddy made from paper-covered juice cans bound together.

How to Make A DIY Simple Supply Caddy

Construction paper Baobab tree bookends.

How to Make Baobab Tree Bookends

Colored Easter eggs on a wire rack.

How Do You Celebrate Easter?

A neat blue box containing keepsake items.

Time Capsule Box

EGGS

How To Tie-Dye Easter Eggs

A pretend snowman made from toilet paper rolls wrapped in an old tee shirt.

No-Melt Snowman Craft

A wicker basket of pretend apples and pumpkins.

Felt and Paper Pumpkin Craft

A child’s hand, dipping fingers into one of three small jars of paint

How to Make Homemade Finger Paints

A child’s hand painting the first section of a rainbow shape sketched on the sidewalk.

Homemade Sidewalk Paint

4 sticks of homemade sidewalk chalk on the pavement.

How To Make DIY Sidewalk Chalk

A pile of candy and a homemade jack-o-lantern treat bag made from washcloths and felt fabric.

DIY Halloween Trick-or-Treat Bag

A child setting a painted rock on a windowsill

Create Your Own Constellation

DIY Diwali Candle Holder

DIY Diwali Candle Holder

DIY Shofar for Rosh Hashanah

DIY Shofar for Rosh Hashanah

Small cardboard boxes decorated with patterned washi tape

How to Make a Toy Camera

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