Busy children can sometimes make the space between nap times or after school feel endless. Here's the fix: A colorful, fun-packed guide to channel all that energy into exciting crafting projects you and your kids can do together. This amazing, comprehensive resource gathers dozens of easy but impressive crafts that require minimal supervision and inexpensive supplies you may already have in your home. The kids stay entertained and engaged, while Mom and/or Dad get a memory to cherish forever. This evergreen resource can live close-at-hand on the coffee table or be placed wherever crayons, yarn, pipe-cleaners, and modeling clay are stored.
More Than Just Making Things • Yes, crafting with kids is fun—but it also develops skills, builds relationships, and creates memories.
Paper Crafts • Not just airplanes anymore
Crafting with Paper: The Basics • This magical material offers a colorful world of opportunity
SCISSOR SKILLS
A Rainbow of Colors • Color is the star of these paper projects.
Take Flight & Decorate! • Create these fun objects with simple materials and minimal time.
Painting Crafts • Let your mini-Picassos unleash their creativity
Crafting with Paint: The Basics • From fingers to brushes to leaves, craft painting is a fun, exploratory art form.
OLD RELIABLE: FINGER PAINTING
Let Nature Be the Canvas • Give leaves and rocks new life through painting.
Home Improvements…The Crafty Way! • Painting windows or fun wooden shapes brings creative flair to any home.
Fuzzy Crafts • Soft and cute projects for all ages
Crafting with Pipe Cleaners, Pom-Poms, and Felt: The Basics • Use these materials to embellish other crafts…or to create new ones.
EGG-CARTON ORGANIZERS
Fuzzy, Felty Friends • Try your hand at making these fun critters and creations.
Soft Stuffies • From simple monsters to scared spiders, we've got options for tiny crafters.
Clay Crafts • This fun crafting style is high in creativity and tactile satisfaction.
Crafting with Clay: The Basics • Making sculptures with your hands is a primitive practice from long ago… that’s just as fun today.
BAKEABLE CLAY
Three…Two…One…Action • Make clay characters to star in their own show.
Make a Clay Space • Use objects to make impressions in clay, and clay to make textured pictures!
Found-Object Crafts • Finders, keepers: This crafting style is all about seeking out and reimagining the ordinary.
Found-Object Crafting: The Basics • Turning everyday items into creatively intricate masterpieces
EMBROIDERY FLOSS
Strings on Things • A pair of projects that use string to create fun, personalized expression.
Buttons & Butterflies • Celebrate the metamorphosis of coffee filters and buttons.
Screens Down, Sleeves Up! • More time crafting and less time scrolling is just what kids need.
Feel Better, Think Clearer, Bond More • The importance of prioritizing craft time in a digital world
RELAXING WITHOUT SCREENS
Banish Blue Light at Night • Defining a new nightly routine helps your kids get the rest they need.
Practice What You Preach • Modeling good screen time habits can benefit your watchful kids.
Recycled Crafts • Give throwaway items new life as clever, creative crafts.
Crafting with Recycled Materials: The Basics • A crafting style at the intersection of art, design, and problem-solving
DIY HELMET
Repurposing Recyclables • Make useful things from empty cans, bottles, and boxes.
Bright Lights, Big City • Use repurposed boxes to build a single space, or even a whole town!
Nature-Walk Crafts •...
