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
Black Glue Fall Art Projects
Black glue is a fun, easy and inexpensive material to use in children’s art projects, and has beautiful results! To demonstrate, we’ve put together a
Fork Painted Hedgehog Art Project
Fork Painted Hedgehog Art Project for kids with an Autumnal twist! This easy and fun fall craft is perfect for kids at home or school
Hedgehog Fall Leaf Craft
Hedgehog Fall Leaf Craft – A simple and fun fall craft for preschoolers and children in early years education. Kids will love creating art with
Craft Ideas for Kids
Craft ideas involve sticking, creating, making, learning and having fun!
Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Yarn Wrapped Owl Craft
This yarn wrapped owl craft reuses scrap materials and is a fantastic fine motor activity for children from preschool age to kindergarten and early years.
Surprise Black Cat Printable Craft
This surprise black cat printable craft is a must for Halloween. It’s fun and super easy for kids to make, who will delight at uncovering
Bobble Head Owl Craft
Bobble Head Owl Craft – Colourful, fun and interactive, this is an Autumn craft that kids will love! With its handprint wings, the craft doubles
Valentines Art & Craft Ideas
Valentines Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Circle Heart Art Project
If you’re looking for a seasonally relevant art project for kids this Valentine’s, this Circle Heart Art Project is one to try. It’s a concept
Lion Heart Craft
We continue our animal heart series with an adorable Lion Heart Craft. Simply download and print the Heart Shaped Lion Template and leave the rest
Penguin Heart Craft
This super cute Penguin Heart Craft is fun, easy and fits into both Winter and Valentine’s Day themed crafts! Simply download and print the Heart
Easter Art & Craft Ideas
Easter Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Hedgehog Fall Leaf Craft
Hedgehog Fall Leaf Craft – A simple and fun fall craft for preschoolers and children in early years education. Kids will love creating art with
How to Make a Photo Surprise Easter Egg Card
Let’s get creative this Easter with an easy to make Photo Surprise Easter Egg Card. The Easter Egg unfolds to reveal a child’s image, adding
Bobble Nose Paper Easter Bunny Craft
We love our interactive paper crafts at Arty Crafty Kids and have a growing collection of animals crafts with bobble features. With its wiggly and
Halloween Art & Craft Ideas
Halloween Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Surprise Black Cat Printable Craft
This surprise black cat printable craft is a must for Halloween. It’s fun and super easy for kids to make, who will delight at uncovering
Fun Paper Halloween Crafts for Kids
Today we have the pleasure of welcoming Maggy from Red Ted Art on Arty Crafty Kids, with 10 Super Fun Paper Halloween Crafts for Kids!
Halloween Printable Puppets
These quirky Halloween Printable Puppets have been designed with play in mind; ditching the spooky in favour of imaginative and fun. With a choice of
Christmas Art & Craft Ideas
Christmas Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Santa Handprint Craft
A charming printable Santa Handprint Craft for kids to make and gift to loved ones this Christmas. Simply open Santa’s handprint beard to reveal your
Children’s Christmas Colouring Pages
The Arty Crafty Kids club is jam-packed with adorable colouring pages to keep your Arty Crafty Kids colouring for hours! New hand-drawn pages are added weekly
Wood Slice Christmas Ornaments
Wood Slice Christmas Ornaments are cute, fun and easy to make – perfect for kids! This post covers a step-by-step tutorial for How to make
Spring Art & Craft Ideas
Spring Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Spring Meadow Painting for Kids
Spring is here and the flowers are beginning to bloom, both outside and within the craft room. Here, we’ve created a beautiful wildflower Spring Meadow
Butterfly Clothespin Craft for Kids to Make
Butterfly Clothespin Craft – A simple, gorgeous and doable butterfly craft to make with the kids during the Spring and Summer months. We love our
Paper Rainbow Craft for Preschoolers
Spring is here and we’re welcoming the season of April showers and sunshine with an easy paper rainbow craft for preschoolers! This simple preschool activity
Summer Art & Craft Ideas
Summer Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Flower Painting Hair Design – Nature Craft for Kids
Flower Painting Hair Design – Nature Craft for Kids: Kids will love using their imaginations and the process of painting with flowers to create crazy
Swimming Baby Shark Craft
Make a swimming baby shark craft with the kids this Summer. Perfect for shark week, kids will be singing their favourite baby shark song as
Printable 3D Turtle Paper Craft for Kids
Printable 3D Turtle Paper Craft for Kids – A ‘turtley’ perfect under the sea craft for kids this Summer! Kids will love how the turtle
Autumn Art & Craft Ideas
Autumn Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Yarn Wrapped Owl Craft
This yarn wrapped owl craft reuses scrap materials and is a fantastic fine motor activity for children from preschool age to kindergarten and early years.
Black Glue Fall Art Projects
Black glue is a fun, easy and inexpensive material to use in children’s art projects, and has beautiful results! To demonstrate, we’ve put together a
Fork Painted Hedgehog Art Project
Fork Painted Hedgehog Art Project for kids with an Autumnal twist! This easy and fun fall craft is perfect for kids at home or school
Winter Art & Craft Ideas
Winter Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Winter Kids Colouring Pages
Winter has arrived and we’re enjoying the frosty mornings snuggled in cosy jumpers. Many of you may be lucky enough to have snow. With or
Penguin Heart Craft
This super cute Penguin Heart Craft is fun, easy and fits into both Winter and Valentine’s Day themed crafts! Simply download and print the Heart
3D Polar Bear Winter Craft
This wonderful 3D Polar Bear Winter Craft uses a technique first seen in our Bouncy Rudolph Craft to create a polar bear that wobbles and
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 Owl Craft
This yarn wrapped owl craft reuses scrap materials and is a fantastic fine motor activity for children from preschool age to kindergarten and early years.
Black Glue Fall Art Projects
Black glue is a fun, easy and inexpensive material to use in children’s art projects, and has beautiful results! To demonstrate, we’ve put together a
Fork Painted Hedgehog Art Project
Fork Painted Hedgehog Art Project for kids with an Autumnal twist! This easy and fun fall craft is perfect for kids at home or school
Surprise Black Cat Printable Craft
This surprise black cat printable craft is a must for Halloween. It’s fun and super easy for kids to make, who will delight at uncovering
Hedgehog Fall Leaf Craft
Hedgehog Fall Leaf Craft – A simple and fun fall craft for preschoolers and children in early years education. Kids will love creating art with
Bobble Head Owl Craft
Bobble Head Owl Craft – Colourful, fun and interactive, this is an Autumn craft that kids will love! With its handprint wings, the craft doubles
Bobble Handprint Owl Craft
Bobble Handprint Owl Craft – A super cute and interactive paper Autumn craft that kids will love! With its wobbly handprint wings, the craft doubles
Toilet Paper Roll Owls
These toilet paper roll owls are not only cute, they’re also super easy to put together and perfect for kids to make! With the nights
Kandinsky Inspired Apple Art
Kandinsky Inspired Apple Art for kids – A fun and colourful back to school and early Autumn art project for kids. The apple twist is
