Kid Craft Ideas for Kwanzaa

As the holiday season grows near you might be thinking of craft ideas you can do during Kwanzaa. If you have children and are trying to think of some craft ideas they can do, you might be interested in reading about some easy and simple craft ideas. You can get most of the supplies you will need for the Kwanzaa crafts for children at your local retail or craft store for around 10 dollars or 20 dollars.

You can get your children to make a kinara which is a Kwanzaa candle holder out of some simple materials. A kinara is shaped like a staircase so you want to get some felt. Since a kinara is made from wood you should use a neutral color of felt or a color that is similar to brown in order to get the wood color. You should also get some glue or a hot glue gun in order to attach felt in a manner for it to look like stairs. When attaching the stairs together, you should have two staircases of three steps each, meeting at the top step for a total of seven steps. Get a black candle to set at the top of the stairs and three red candles which should be placed of the left side of the stairs. Green candles are going to go on the right side of the stairs, and all of the candles should be the same height so cut them to match in sizes if you need to. You will then have a candle holder in which you can light at the appropriate time, but be sure you are the one lighting it and not your children for safety reasons.

You can also get your children to make a Kwanzaa flag. For a Kwanzaa flag you are going to need some glue, red and green construction paper as well as a black board or black piece of construction paper. All you do is cut the red and green construction paper into strips and place a piece of red construction paper down on the black paper, and glue it down. Leave a gap in the black construction paper the same size as the strips so that you can get the middle flag color which is black. A strip of green construction paper will then be added underneath the section of the black so that you have red, black, and green in a repetitive pattern to the bottom of the black paper. If you want to use a ruler or measuring tool to ensure you have the strips the same size you can do that also. This is a very fun and simple way for your children to make the Kwanzaa flag and you can get the materials at your local retail or craft store for around 5 dollars.

You can also make a place-mat which is also known as mkeka out of regular black construction paper. All you need to do is gather some construction paper, scissors, and red and green construction paper. Fold the piece of black construction paper in half and cut slits about 1/2 inch away from the edge to make an entrance point. Cut your green and red construction paper into small strips and begin to weave the red and green through the open slits on the black construction paper. Weave the red and green construction paper through the slits until you reach the bottom of the black construction paper. You can then use wax paper as a protective covering for these simple and easy place-mats that your children will adore. The Kwanzaa place-mats are a very easy and simple craft activity that you can get your children to do and it requires little thought or money.