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
10 Charming St Patrick’s Day Grid Drawings
10 Charming St Patrick’s Day Grid Drawings: These St Patrick’s Day themed grid drawings are a fabulous way to get creative during the celebrations! We
Spin Art Snails
Spin Art Snails: Spring is on its way and, with it, it will bring lots of lovely new learning topics for pre-schoolers and school early
10 Cute Valentine’s Grid Drawings
10 Cute Valentine’s Grid Drawings: This pack of grid drawings is super cute, and perfectly themed for some Valentine’s fun! If you’re looking for something
Craft Ideas for Kids
Craft ideas involve sticking, creating, making, learning and having fun!
Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Love Bug Handprint Card
Using our free ladybug template, today’s post will show you how to make a Love Bug Handprint Card for Valentine’s or Mother’s Day. There’s nothing
3D Paper Koala Craft
3D Paper Koala Craft: Next week is Australia Day for all our friends ‘Down Under.’ So, as it’s still gray and raining here, we thought
Pipe Cleaner Spring Flowers
Pipe Cleaner Spring Flowers: We’ve said good bye to Christmas, it’s a brand new year and our thoughts are turning to spring. We get so
Valentines Art & Craft Ideas
Valentines Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Love Bug Handprint Card
Using our free ladybug template, today’s post will show you how to make a Love Bug Handprint Card for Valentine’s or Mother’s Day. There’s nothing
10 Cute Valentine’s Grid Drawings
10 Cute Valentine’s Grid Drawings: This pack of grid drawings is super cute, and perfectly themed for some Valentine’s fun! If you’re looking for something
10 Valentine’s Day Colouring Pages
10 Valentine’s Day Colouring Pages: These colouring pages will give lovely Little’s something to keep them creative on the cutest day of the year! Think
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.
10 Spooktacular Alphabet Worksheets for Preschoolers
10 Spooktacular Alphabet Worksheets for Preschoolers: Half term is here, and if you’re looking for activities that combine some seasonal Halloween fun with enjoyable learning,
Christmas Art & Craft Ideas
Christmas Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Melting Snowman Paper Craft
Craft meets play with this adorable Melting Snowman Paper Craft! This snowman will stretch, wobble and melt into a big white blob, bringing joy and
Christmas Ornament Art for Kids
This simple and effective Christmas Ornament Art for Kids is perfect for the festive season. With a choice of four templates to download and print,
Jingle Bells Rudolph Reindeer Craft
A Jingle Bells Rudolph Reindeer craft with a difference. It bounces and jingle jangles, encouraging playful movement and interaction! The focus of this craft is
Spring Art & Craft Ideas
Spring Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
Pipe Cleaner Spring Flowers
Pipe Cleaner Spring Flowers: We’ve said good bye to Christmas, it’s a brand new year and our thoughts are turning to spring. We get so
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
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
Yarn Wrapped Turkey Craft
Yarn Wrapped Turkey Craft: Our yarn wrap crafts are always really popular because they’re so simple, yet highly effective – and they’re made from scraps!
Moving Eyes Turkey Craft
Get your Thanksgiving craft on with this adorable Moving Eyes Turkey Craft for kids! Children can practice their fine motor skills with cutting and sticking,
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
Winter Art & Craft Ideas
Winter Art & Craft Ideas Latest Projects
12 Winter Wonderland Puzzle Pages
12 Winter Wonderland Puzzle Pages: If you’re looking for something to keep children entertained on these cold wintery days, then look no further! Download our
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
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
10 Charming St Patrick’s Day Grid Drawings
10 Charming St Patrick’s Day Grid Drawings: These St Patrick’s Day themed grid drawings are a fabulous way to get creative during the celebrations! We
Spin Art Snails
Spin Art Snails: Spring is on its way and, with it, it will bring lots of lovely new learning topics for pre-schoolers and school early
Love Bug Handprint Card
Using our free ladybug template, today’s post will show you how to make a Love Bug Handprint Card for Valentine’s or Mother’s Day. There’s nothing
3D Paper Koala Craft
3D Paper Koala Craft: Next week is Australia Day for all our friends ‘Down Under.’ So, as it’s still gray and raining here, we thought
10 Cute Valentine’s Grid Drawings
10 Cute Valentine’s Grid Drawings: This pack of grid drawings is super cute, and perfectly themed for some Valentine’s fun! If you’re looking for something
10 Valentine’s Day Colouring Pages
10 Valentine’s Day Colouring Pages: These colouring pages will give lovely Little’s something to keep them creative on the cutest day of the year! Think
10 Lovely Valentine’s Day Number Worksheets
10 Lovely Valentine’s Day Number Worksheets: These gorgeous worksheets show off some of the best bits about Valentine’s Day! Including heart candies, yummy chocolate and
12 Fuzzy Valentine’s Puzzle Pages
12 Fuzzy Valentine’s Puzzle Pages: Download these 12 puzzle pages to use during the Valentine’s season! These puzzle pages feature 4 different challenges and are
10 Lovely Valentine’s Day Alphabet Worksheets
10 Lovely Valentine’s Day Alphabet Worksheets: These beautiful worksheets feature all the best things about Valentine’s Day! Who doesn’t love chocolates, cupcakes, fluffy animals, pretty
