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Free Kids Crafts & Activities Library

Here you'll find new ideas for children's craft activities and science projects that kids and adults can do together. These free children's crafts and science activities should be fun for one or more kids as long as the adults plan to be involved too. The crafts supplies needed will be items commonly found in most households. It could be anything from an empty milk carton to a newspaper.

Highlights from Kids Craft Activities and Science Projects

  • Christmas Crafts - ideas for Christmas ornaments and decorations
  • Pipe Cleaners - ideas for making your own creations.
  • Halloween Crafts - kids can make stuff to scare anyone this Halloween.
  • Thanksgiving Crafts - crafts for the Thanksgiving Day.
  • Flight - How airplanes fly and other experiments.
  • Kids Themes - lots of ideas and gift suggestions all about themes kids love (dinosaurs, space, nature, make believe, ...).

Scroll down the page to find all the ideas in the craft and activity index list.

Crafts are fun

Kids have fun with crafts.

Read the the Creative Kids Blog to find out our experiences crafts and activities or try Arncraft for creative projects using recycled materials.

Free Kids Crafts and Activities

To find all the projects in the Free Kids Crafts and Science Activities Library, pick one of the categories on the right or scroll down the page to find the detailed lists of childrens craft projects and science activities.  There are craft projects for holidays, ideas for a child's birthday party, science experiments, childrens games, and lots of family fun.

You will find simple craft projects for young children, and ideas that will interest older kids.  Some activities just take 10 or 15 minutes, others could take hours or days depending on your child's interest.

Some of the craft projects can get a bit messy, but the kids love these ideas.  If you don't want to do all the clean-up, let the kids know before you start that they will be participating in the clean-up too.

Be sure to encourage your child's creativity.  Try not to have expectations of how the finished art work should look.  Often a child sees the world from a different point of view.  Crafting together gives you a chance to see through your child's eyes.

If you are working on a craft with a young child, try not to do identical craft projects.  If your child is drawing a nature scene, maybe you could draw an apple.  Children need time to develop their creative skills without being discouraged by comparisons to adult projects.

Note for Parents:

Every parent must use their own judgment in choosing which crafts and activities are safe for their own children. While Creative Kids at Home makes every effort to provide activity ideas that are safe and fun for children it is your responsibility to choose the activities that are safe in your own home.

Free Library Categories

You and your children can choose from:

Pick from the links above or scroll down this page to find lots of ideas for your and your children to have with childrens craft ideas and kids science projects.

Holiday Childrens Activities

Theme craft projects for kids for everything from Valentine's Day to Christmas crafts.

Children's Birthday Parties

Ideas for children birthday parties including themes and how to suggestions.

Science Projects for Kids

Many of these ideas are from our sister website Science Kids at Home

More kids science experiments.

Science Kids at Home logo

Find free ideas for children's science experiments, science fairs and science topics.

Fun Foods for Kids

  • Pancakes - ideas for Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day.
  • Easter Eggs - kids will love these ideas for decorating Easter Eggs.
  • Christmas Cookies - use cookie cutters to make them your favorite shapes.
  • Cup Cake Cones - Too cold for ice cream? Give the kids these cupcake cones!
  • Pumpkin Seeds - recipe for this delicious Halloween treat.

For Younger Children

Older Children's Crafts Projects

Family Crafts and Kids Activities

Here's some comments about our free crafts and activity ideas from our visitors.

Dea C. Dejan

Thanks for your creative website, it is really helpful for us mothers with little time for our kids. We can teach them this activity so they will not engage themselves to an all day tv viewing and it will made them be creative too. hope to see a lot more. More power to you!

Onnamarie

I love your website. It's the best. Especially with arts and crafts for the kids. I have my own daycare and I get a lot of activities from your website. The kids absolutely love it. Thanks for your time.

Lizzy

Your web site is great so many choices. My favorite is the tissue paper one!!!!
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