Looking for inexpensive gifts that kids can make for family, friends, and teachers? Do you need ideas for handmade table decorations, garlands, wreaths, and ornaments? Crafty kids will love feeling a part of the season's festivities by participating in decorating home and classroom.
Check out our current articles as well as the Kids Crafts archives for art and craft projects for toddlers through teens. Be sure to have an assortment of craft supplies on hand for afternoons of spontaneous crafting.
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Show dad how much he is thought of with a homemade gift card, a photo holder, or organizers for the desk or workbench. more...
Gifts Kids Can Make for Their Grandfathers
Kids can personalize a baseball cap, make a desktop fishing game, or mix up a batch of no-bake cookies to show that special man in their lives how much they think of him. more...
Gifts Kids Can Make for Their Sisters & Brothers
Whether kids have an hour or an afternoon, they can create a jigsaw puzzle, treasure box, or a pair of snazzy shoelaces to give to a sibling. more...
Gifts Kids Can Make for Young Siblings
Kids can create an alphabet book, a texture collage, or a group of finger puppets that will entertain young siblings, cousins, and friends. more...
Gifts Kids Can Make for Their Grandmothers
In an afternoon, kids can make a gift for their grandmother (or aunt, or mother). Choose from a decorative nature arrangement, a bookmark, kitchen magnets, or a frame. more...
Gifts Kids Can Make for Their Mother
Even with no cash, children can make wind chimes, a yarn-covered flower vase, or a hand-crafted beaded necklace. Each present gives new life to recycled items. more...
Cover a paper plate cut into a ring with yarn, paper hands, egg carton cups, or jigsaw puzzle pieces for a variety of wreaths to decorate the home throughout the year. more...
Recycle Old Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces
Find a new use for those cardboard jigsaw puzzles with missing pieces by turning the pieces into ornaments, wreaths, and picture frames. more...
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