Cheap Arts and Crafts ideas for Adults

21 Quick Kids Crafts Ideas
March 30, 2016 – 12:59 am
Cheap Flights With
Next time it's raining outside or it is a school holiday and you need something quick to do with the kids try a craft idea from this list. We have not provided step by step instructions for these simple projects as this is a "Quick list". 21 Quick Kids Crafts Ideas

What you need

Various items

Instructions

Below is a list of quick kids craft ideas that were contributed by some of our members to help invoke some imagination. If you need help with a project try searching our kids craft area for step by step instructions for that project.

Quick and inexpensive? – Definitely the egg carton caterpillar. You only need egg cartons, pipe cleaners and paint. Another one is Chinese Lanterns, you only need colored cardboard, scissors and some string to hang them up.

By Anne

Beach Collage – We collect all sorts of things from the beach – shells/feathers/coral etc. and make beach pictures.

By Kim Felt

Puppets – Making hand puppets out of felt, no sew, all done with glue, very easy project for kids.

By Marilynne Collage

I use ribbons, rice and other tactile material as well as pictures. Add glitter to glue so you can see something where the little ones miss sticking something on.

By Sharmaine Kids

Jewelry – I think it is fun for kids to make jewelry with beads and ornaments with beads, they love it and it keeps them entertained.

By Tammy

Fun foam door hangers – Pre cut out shapes that even young children can make, takes about 5 to 10 minutes max and their finished.

By Shannon

Laminated Place mats – Cut out pictures from Sunday paper (what ever theme is of interest to my toddler at the time). Make up a batch of finger paint. Allow him to create a collage with finger paint, cut out images. Finally, laminate artwork and you have a custom place mat.

By Deborah

– A fun activity for kids is to make salt dough – lots of things can be made from salt dough and it is so easy and cheap and it is easily painted! A good idea is brooches!

By Alison

Family Portraits – Take an old newspaper, sheets of card, some glue and some child safe scissors. Ask the children to look through the paper and cut out pictures to glue on the card to create a picture of their family.

By Rosie

Binoculars – Take two toilet paper empty rolls and staple inside each end stapling them together to look like binoculars. The child can decorate them with crayons or paints or stickers and you can even add a string around them so they are just like dads! My 5 year old insists she saw a fox through her binocular.

By Cindi

Sewing – Children love to sew using plastic canvas. Embroidery thread or wool can be tied to a large needle and random patterns can be created.

By Jackie

Photo Frames – Find your favorite photo or even a picture in a magazine cut it out and make a frame in the shape you want out of cardboard. Cover this by gluing material over it and a bit of lace around the edges. Insert your picture and you have an instant photo frame and also a cute gift.

By Sue

Foot Prints – Wide roll of paper on the ground and ice cream lids with paint let the child do foot print hand print what ever prints. Cut the paper once dry and use it for gift wrap.

By Leighanne

Drinking Straws Garland – Save all your drink straws in many colors and cut into small pieces. Thread onto wool which makes a great garland for the Christmas tree. It is inexpensive but colorful.

By Marina

Make a wizzer – Take a 2 hole button and some string. Thread the string through the hole and again through the hole in the other direction. Tie the ends together, wind up, and move hands in and out and it makes a wizzy sound and is fun.

By Katrina

Painting flowerpots – Washable paints (of course) so the kids can use their fingers, toes, etc.

By Dawn

Fun Foam Clock – My kids love playing with Fun Foam, so to teach them to tell time, we made a clock out of fun Foam around the numbers they glued shapes and cars. This was a fun and easy project to do.

By Alena

– Have the children lay down on a long piece of construction paper and you trace their bodies. After this is finished let the kids color and draw on the paper what they think they look like. I do this with my day care kids and they love it.

By Cynthia

Food Animals – With small children make “bugs” from gumdrops and pretzels. – Buy fat gumdrops – slit the middles – stuff in pretzels (small ones) for wings!

By D Kinkhead

Clay Figures – Let them make their own little men/ dolls (action_figurines) out of clay.

By Brett

– Let the kids make coupons for gift giving eg. Helping mum around house, being good for 3 hours etc.

Source: craftbits.com
You might also like
Arts And Crafts Ideas
Arts And Crafts Ideas
Arts And Crafts Ideas For Adults
Arts And Crafts Ideas For Adults
Premium Bento Lunch Box Containers - 3-compartment - 4 Pack Set with Lids - Durable & Reusable for Kids and Adults - Sunsella Buddy Boxes (Not Leakproof)
Kitchen (Sunsella)
  • ➡ SET OF 4 HIGH QUALITY BENTO LUNCH BOXES - 3 divided compartments - Tough food safe plastic, BPA and lead free, meets FDA standards. Easy open, child friendly lids...
  • ➡ MICROWAVE, DISHWASHER & FREEZER SAFE - Perfect for food storage or freezing baby food. Use with a backpack or a cooler bag and ice packs for an on-the-go lunchbox...
  • ➡ GREAT FOR ADULTS OR CHILDREN - Boys and girls will love the bright colors for school lunchboxes or use at the office for a cheap microwavable meal at work.
  • ➡ SAVE TIME & MONEY - Have stress free mornings, store pre prepared meals with color-coded lunches for everyone. Eco-friendly, no need for sandwich bags, wrap...
  • ➡ HEALTHIER - Healthy & nutritious snacks or portion control meals ready to go for your family so there s no need to eat out. DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 6.2 x 2.2 inches...
Bao Core 36 Assorted Color Wooden Color Pencils Exclusive for Secret Garden Adult Coloring Books Drawing Pencils for Artist Sketch Scrapbooking Sketching
Art and Craft Supply (Baixt)
  • High quality drawing pencils for writing, drawing and sketching ,special for Secret Garden Coloring Book- A great gift idea and perfect for encouraging creativity
  • The colors are very vivid and smooth, makes it very easy to color
  • Environmental friendly material which is harmless to your health, completely safe for use by anyone, including children and pregnant women
  • Artist-quality colored pencils for every level of expertise, and perfect for travel and field trips or non messy artwork at home
  • Different price for different quality, we guarantee our color pencils are made of high quality and easy to color,buy from Bao Core to get the genuine products of...
Do-A-Dot Do A Dot Art Marker Brilliant 6-pack
Toy (Do-A-Dot)
  • Product Type: Markers
  • High Quality
  • Proprietary design
  • Exceptional performance
852689912569 10 Metallic Gel Pens | Best Colored Gel Pens Set | Drawing and Doodle Pens |
Art and Craft Supply (852689912569)
  • Set of 10 Metallic Gel Pens | Colors include: red, pink, orange, gold, green, sky blue, blue, purple, silver, black
  • Great to sketch, draw, color, doodle, write, scrapbooking | Accent on watercolors
  • Ink comes out smoothly | Writes very well | Dries quickly | Once dry, doesn t fade or smear | Colors remain vibrant | Smooth and rich in color
  • Great for Gifts | 30 days refund guarantee by Amazon
  • FREE E-BOOK The Basics of Doodling | Download as PDF | Direction on the package
Homework 42 Piece Deluxe Art Set
Toy (Homework)
  • 42 Piece deluxe art set with lots of art supplies for drawing, painting and more
  • Provides excellent way for kids and adults to experiment with a variety of artistic media
  • Complete art set for hours of satisfying and creative fun
  • oil pastels, crayons, color pencils, color pens, eraser and other exciting accesories
  • Reusable carrying case for your convenience
Related Posts