Best Free Children's Craft Project Websites

When children are bored, craft projects are a simple way of sparking their creativity and passing the time. Making things gives them a sense of pride, gives them family time, and shows them how to learn patience and all of the rewards it offers. Kids love giving gifts to others, and creating something to give to Dad, Grandmother, or another relative when they visit them shows their love. It is always wonderful to get a handmade present from a little one as a keepsake. You can find craft projects for any age from preschool to pre-teen and beyond. Here I'll detail some of the best online resources for cute and easy crafting projects that youngsters can handle making with a small amount of direction from an adult. Sproutonline provides character, coloring, and party themes for very young children. Allfreecrafts has an extensive array of items which kids can make in most any category one could think of.

Sproutonline has a list of easy, fun, and fast crafts for little children. You can find projects while searching by character if the kid wishes. There are all kinds of characters such as Barney, Sesame Street characters, Caillou, Bob the Builder, and much more. Printing these themed coloring pages out on your home computer is free, convenient, and makes for a good busy activity. Children can choose and color the pages that they like and either give them as gifts, or keep them to add into a personal scrapbook. Those who like coloring, drawing, or painting would enjoy having all of their works put into a large scrapbook for safe keeping. Another great idea is to take the pages that they've colored or painted and use them to decorate or wrap a gift, so that everything included in the item is made customized by the youngster. If they want to give a photograph or picture book, you can have them color their desired pages, glue the pictures onto them as desired, and compile them into a binder, scrap book, or photo album, then top off the cover with one of their masterpieces. They can also easily make their own album or scrapbook with some cardboard, ribbon or string, glue, paint, fabric, and colored pages. It's easy to help them create things when you both use your imagination. The party craft projects range from decorations to cakes in the image of the child's favorite character. You can find instructions for making a Berenstain Bears picnic party basket. All you need is craft glue, markers, safety scissors, a brown paper grocery store bag, color photocopies of the Berenstain Bears characters or colored pages that the kid has done, and decorative gingham ribbon in a desired color. Then the bag is cut leaving the top half, the edges are folded over and glued to keep them from being sharp, a handle is cut from the top of the bag and glued onto the sides, the pictures of the bears are glued onto the bottom half of the bag for decoration, and finally the ribbon is glued along the top edging of the bag all of the way around to make it look like a picnic basket. These are great for indoors or outdoors, pack their basket with their favorite foods and snacks, then take a Berenstain Bears book along for a story time break while eating. Making a travel suitcase is a quick and easy craft idea for kids, and they can take it anywhere. Just a few simple items are needed such as construction paper, safety scissors, craft glue or tape, markers, and old magazines.

Allfreecrafts is a great website, because you can find just about anything to make for all kinds of holidays, parties, birthdays, and more. There are instructions for making critters, memo pads, bracelets, door hangers, and puzzles from foam. All that many of these instructions require is a variety of colors of foam, glue, safety scissors, and decorative items like ribbon or paints. The craft recipes section tells you how to make sidewalk chalk, face and bath paints, breadcrumb bracelets, and more. The art lessons teach drawing different animals like monkeys, frogs, and snowmen in a simple way for children to understand. If your child is an outdoor type, you can help them to create their own ant farms, painted stones, pet or animal photo frames, or bird feeders with common household items. They also have a great list of balloon games and how tos on making cute tea and princess parties. You can usually find most of the items for their projects around your home or outside.