Arts and Crafts for Kids
Play and learn with these fun arts and crafts for kids ideas and projects.
Drawing, painting, sticking, creating and crafting are good for the brain and good for the soul!
Be inspired with quick no-prep arts and craft ideas and learning resources for your Arty Crafty Kids.
Our art and craft ideas are perfect for parents and teachers of kids of all ages. E.g. baby handprint art, toddler craft projects, preschool art and craft ideas, kindergarten art based learning resources and many more art and craft ideas to inspire creativity and have fun!
Kids love arts and crafts, experimenting with different colours and techniques – painting with paintbrushes, sponges and sometimes fingers!
And we help parents and teachers with art and craft ideas to do at home or in the classroom.
Our crafts have easy to follow guides, and to keep it simple we itemise the art and craft supplies used in each project at the beginning of each post.
To help you find the inspiration you are looking for, our art and craft project ideas are split into the following categories:
Art Ideas for Kids
Art ideas are predominantly processed led, allowing kids to explore colours and shapes. Using different techniques to create fun and masterful art.
Art Ideas Latest Projects
Flow Drawing: How to Draw an Owl
How to Draw an Owl: Our latest flow drawing is a real hoot! We’re taking the humble owl and supercharging her, with colour, pattern and
String Halloween Spider Web Art
Halloween Spider Web Art: Spiders – they have a bit of a bad rep for being scary and hairy; but let’s not forget, they’re one
Flow Drawing for Kids: Autumn Birch Tree Painting
Autumn Birch Tree Painting: If your Arty Crafty Kids regularly love creating their own little works of art with our flow drawing guides, then you’ll
Craft Ideas for Kids
Craft ideas involve sticking, creating, making, learning and having fun!
Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Yarn Wrapped Monster Craft
If you’re looking for some fabulously fun Halloween activities, but are feeling a bit uninspired or bored with the same old stuff, then our yarn
Moving Eyes Frankenstein Craft
Craft meets play with this engaging and interactive Moving Eyes Frankenstein Craft! This simple paper craft is a really fun and interactive activity for pre-schoolers
Moving Eyes Bat Craft
Moving Eyes Bat Craft: We’ve had some brilliant feedback on our moving eye crafts from all of our Arty Crafty Kids out there – you’re
Valentines Art & Craft Ideas
Valentines Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Mondrian Heart Art for Kids
This Mondrian Heart Art Project for kids has been designed to suit children of all ages; from a simple colour and stick project for preschoolers,
Printable Panda Heart Card
Looking for an easy, cute and fun craft to do with the kids this Valentine’s day? Then take a look at this adorable Printable Panda
Wriggly Heart Snake Craft
Make something different with the kids this Valentine’s day and try this adorable Wriggly Heart Snake Craft. Kids will love how this snake bends, wriggles
Easter Art & Craft Ideas
Easter Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
The Easter Colouring and Activity Book
Easter is just weeks away and today I have the pleasure of presenting a brand new Easter Colouring and Activity Book to download and print
Spring Toilet Paper Roll Craft
Spring Toilet Paper Roll Craft: We all know that things are tough out there at the moment, and if you’re struggling to get out for
Easter Bunny Photo Card
Easter Bunny Photo Card – Cute, fun and easy Easter card to make with the kids. Designed to encourage little crafters to create independently. The
Halloween Art & Craft Ideas
Halloween Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Yarn Wrapped Monster Craft
If you’re looking for some fabulously fun Halloween activities, but are feeling a bit uninspired or bored with the same old stuff, then our yarn
10 Friendly Halloween Coloring Pages
10 Friendly Halloween Coloring Pages: We all know that kids love Halloween, and especially love getting stuck into – preferably messy! – arts and crafts.
Moving Eyes Frankenstein Craft
Craft meets play with this engaging and interactive Moving Eyes Frankenstein Craft! This simple paper craft is a really fun and interactive activity for pre-schoolers
Christmas Art & Craft Ideas
Christmas Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Christmas Crafts for Kids
We have gathered a complete Santa’s list of Christmas crafts for kids to have crafty fun with! Christmas decoration crafts to hang and display for
DIY Christmas Decorations for Kids
Get into the festive spirit with these DIY Christmas decorations for kids to make and enjoy throughout the holiday season! We have compiled some of
Craft Stick Reindeer Ornament
This adorable Craft Stick Reindeer Ornament deserves top spot on the Kids Christmas Craft to-do list! I adore the string of Christmas lights entwined within
Spring Art & Craft Ideas
Spring Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Flow Drawing for Kids: How to Draw a Poppy
Flow Drawing for Kids: How to Draw a Poppy – If you’ve been following our flow drawing posts, you’ll know that we’ve focused on animals
Paper Plate Ladybug Craft
Entertain the little ones with this Spring-themed Paper Plate Lady bug Craft. Cute, easy to make and fits nicely within a bug or mini-best project
Paper Plate Bee Craft
Paper Plate Bee Craft: Looking for a simple paper plate craft to try with the kids? Have a go at our easy bee craft for
Summer Art & Craft Ideas
Summer Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Easy Tissue Paper Sunflower Craft
Here at Arty Crafty Kids, we love the summer sun. It’s inspired us to create a really expressive sunshine lion, and a gorgeous easy tissue
Woven Paper Butterfly Craft
Our beautiful Woven Paper Butterfly Craft is perfect for children who are developing and improving their fine motor skills. With a focus on painting, cutting
Printable Ocean Coloring Book for Kids
This 25 page NO-PREP Ocean Coloring Book for Kids will have your Arty Crafty Kids coloring, counting and practising their tracing skills. As Spring moves
Autumn Art & Craft Ideas
Autumn Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Flow Drawing: How to Draw an Owl
How to Draw an Owl: Our latest flow drawing is a real hoot! We’re taking the humble owl and supercharging her, with colour, pattern and
Flow Drawing for Kids: Autumn Birch Tree Painting
Autumn Birch Tree Painting: If your Arty Crafty Kids regularly love creating their own little works of art with our flow drawing guides, then you’ll
Moving Eyes Owl Craft
With the kids back in school and pre-school, chances are you’re looking for some new fun and easy crafts to support their learning. If your
Winter Art & Craft Ideas
Winter Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
5 Polar Bear and Penguin Winter Color By Number Worksheets
This cute and simply designed collection of Winter Color by Number Worksheets are suitable for children in preschool, early years education and beyond, and are
Dot-to-Dot Winter Coloring Pages (1-20)
This cute and simply designed collection of Dot-to-Dot Winter Coloring Pages (1-20) are suitable for children in preschool, early years education and beyond, and are
Interactive Paper Penguin Craft – Inspired by Happy Feet
Looking for a fun and engaging Winter craft for kids? Take a look at this adorable Interactive Paper Penguin Craft inspired by Happy Feet! This
Arts and Crafts for Kids | Teachers
The art and craft projects on this site can be used for inspiration or completed using the simple guides accompanying each idea.
Our unique and original art and craft ideas are used in classrooms all over the World and as well as being creative and fun, we make use of different art and craft techniques to experiment and explore.
We also have learning resources and activities to help make learning fun!
Straw Blowing Rainbow Art
Leaf Painting
Accordian Paper Fold Crafts
Learning Resources and Activities
Learning through Art & Craft! Easy to use and follow, these learning resources and activities help kids learn numbers and math, letters and the alphabet.
To make things easier and save you time, all of our Art & Craft templates & printables are available in the Members Area.
Arts and Crafts for Kids | Parents
Arts and crafts for kids can be an amazing way to create special keepsakes from fun projects.
Handprint Art
There can be no better way to get a little messy and have fun making arts and crafts with handprints and footprints. Fun for budding artists and keepsakes for parents!
Clay Handprint Shell Keepsake
Special Occasion Homemade Cards
A lovely way to celebrate a special occasion with a personalised greetings card made by your Arty Crafty Kids!
Arts and Crafts for Kids | Benefits
Arts and crafts for kids have many benefits for children and we believe the following benefits are direct and indirect when kids are carrying out art and craft projects following a set guide or experimenting and using their own creativity!
Brain Development
Fine Motor Skills
Shape Matching
Colour Matching
Communication Skills
Working together following a simple guide helps to develop communication skills including listening skills and verbal communication when the child explains what they are doing and what they have done.
5-Minute Fun Art and Crafts for Kids
To get you started we have a few of our popular and easy to do crafts using simple items found around the home or in a scrap box!
Toilet Roll Craft Ideas
Toilet roll crafts can be simple and easy, and usually there is at least one toilet roll available to make something with!
Let these toilet roll art and craft ideas inspire your kids next fun project!
Paper Plate Crafts
Another great mainstay of quick and fun art and craft projects are Paper Plate Crafts. Check out these crafts for inspiration.
Artist Inspired Art and Craft for Kids Ideas
Kandinsky Art
Kandinsky’s famous concentric circles’ painting is a fabulous source of inspiration for kids and is often used by art teachers to explore colour mixing concepts.
Kandinsky Heart Art Project
Claude Monet
Claude Monet experimented with his art, creating a ‘reflective’ surface that was key to Monet’s exploration of capturing patterns of changing light.
Claude Monet Water Lilies Art Project for Kids
Children's Book Inspired Craft Ideas
Children’s books are a fantastic source of inspiration for art and craft ideas and help children enjoy the story from the book.
The Day the Crayons Came Home
The Day the Crayons Came Home, written in a similar format to its predecessor, The Day the Crayons Quit. Duncan receives a pile of postcards from his lost, broken and aggrieved crayons who are not happy about being left behind and forgotten!
The Day the Crayons Came Home Inspired Craft
Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell Inspired Craft
Inspired by Sue Hendra’s charming story ‘Norman The Slug with the Silly Shell’, our Paper Plate Snail is all about letting imaginations sparkle to create snails with very silly shells.
Arts and Crafts for Kids Latest Projects
Yarn Wrapped Monster Craft
If you’re looking for some fabulously fun Halloween activities, but are feeling a bit uninspired or bored with the same old stuff, then our yarn
1-10 Monster Coloring Pages
1-10 Monster Coloring Pages: Numbers have never been so fun! Encourage an interest in numbers with our fabulously fun monster coloring pages. Perfect for pre-schoolers
10 Friendly Halloween Coloring Pages
10 Friendly Halloween Coloring Pages: We all know that kids love Halloween, and especially love getting stuck into – preferably messy! – arts and crafts.
10 Preschool Halloween Number Worksheets
10 Preschool Halloween Number Worksheets: The school holidays are nearly upon us so, if you’re anything like us here at Arty Crafty Kids, you’ll be
Moving Eyes Frankenstein Craft
Craft meets play with this engaging and interactive Moving Eyes Frankenstein Craft! This simple paper craft is a really fun and interactive activity for pre-schoolers
Moving Eyes Bat Craft
Moving Eyes Bat Craft: We’ve had some brilliant feedback on our moving eye crafts from all of our Arty Crafty Kids out there – you’re
Bobble Black Cat Craft
Halloween is only a month away and we’re really starting to get into the spirit of things here at Arty Crafty Kids! So today we’re
Moving Eyes Vampire Craft
Moving Eyes Vampire Craft: Hot on the heels of our spook-tacular witch moving eye crafts comes Vinnie the vampire! A great addition to any Halloween craft
Paper Itsy Bitsy Spider Craft
Our paper itsy bitsy spider craft can be done in the home or classroom with pre-schoolers and school early years to support Autumn learning or
