Kids of all ages love crafting. Crafting with your kids is a great way to promote creativity, resourcefulness, and problem-solving. Making crafts is also an easy way to entertain kids when bored and costs almost nothing!
Household items found in the kitchen, bathroom, and beyond can be repurposed to make a variety of fun and interesting crafts. Here are 13 crafts your kids can make with household items.
1. Simple Plaster Crafts
Plaster casts can be made with simple household items. The materials needed include simple white or frosted plaster of Paris, a cup, a mixing stick, water, newspaper and leaves, buttons, coins, or other objects. Start by creating a basic mixture with 2 parts of plaster to 1 part of water.
Then tear newspaper or paper into small pieces and soak them into the mixture. Place a leaf in the cup, pour the mixture over it, then secure the objects to the leaf with the plaster.
Allow the plaster to dry and the craft is complete.
2. Paper Plate Masks
Paper plate masks are one of the most fun crafts your children can make with household items. Start by tracing your child’s face onto a paper plate, then cut it out.
Have them use glue or tape to apply materials from the kitchen, bathroom, living room, and more to design their mask. They can use sponges, feathers, sequins, buttons, and other household items to finish the mask. As a bonus, you can use this craft to discuss shapes, lines, and various textures of the materials.
3. Yarn Coasters
Yarn coasters are an easy and fun craft to make using kitchen materials. Start by cutting two circles out of wax paper, one slightly larger than the other. Have your child use a paperclip to poke holes on the edge of the larger circle, then wrap colorful pieces of yarn around it, going in and out the holes.
Cut the yarn at the end and place the smaller circle of wax paper on the back to cover the holes. With a few hot glue dots, the coaster is good to go.
4.Coffee Filter Fish
What you need for this craft are several coffee filters, watercolors or washable markers, white paper, scissors and glue. Have your child color the coffee filters with their favorite colors and shapes.
Cut the filters into large scales or small shapes. Then have them cut out a fish shape from the paper and glue the pieces of the coffee filter onto the surface of the fish. Allow the glue to dry and the fish is ready to swim.
5. Magna-tiles Magnets
To make these, you will need checkered craft mats and flat wooden round magnet discs you can buy at any craft store. Have your child glue the items onto the mat to create a unique and colorful design.
Once the glue is dry, attach self-adhesive magnet strips to the back of the mat for a versatile craft that can be used for the refrigerator or any other magnetic surface.
6. Button Art
Gather up a few buttons from around your home and some cardstock paper. Then have your children use their creativity and imagination to make some colorful button art!
This is a great project that can teach your kids to sort, group, and combine colors and shapes. The design possibilities are endless!
7. Lacing Cards
For this craft, you’ll need construction paper, yarn and a hole punch. Ask your child to draw a simple shape on the construction paper and have them punch holes around it. Then they can lace yarn around the holes to create a unique design and create a simple pattern or have them draw a more complicated design.
8. Towel Sacks
Towel sacks are a quick and easy craft for kids to make with household items. Start by cutting out two identical pieces of material from a towel, such as linen or cotton. Then have your child use colorful ribbon and embellishments like beads and feathers to decorate the top of their sack.
Finally, sew the sides of the sack together and you have a fun sack that can be used to store knick-knacks.
9.Dress-Up Masks
Masks are easy to make using items from around your kitchen. Start with a paper plate and have your child draw on it with markers or crayons.
Then add feathers, pompoms, and glitter to give it a unique look. You can also use glue to attach pieces of fabric to the top for an extra fun effect. Then create some holes with a hole punch on each side of the mask and add some elastic string and the mask is ready to wear.
10. Wind Chimes
Wind chimes are an easy craft for kids to make with household items. Ask them to gather items such as plastic lids, spoons, sea shells, wooden beads, and a dowel rod. Then have them measure and cut pieces of string, thread, or embroidery floss and tie the objects to the strings.
Next, tie the strings to the dowel rod and the wind chime is ready to hang!
11. Tea Light Vase
Fill a jar or mason container with water and add a few drops of food coloring. Grab some fabric scraps, buttons, sequins, and other embellishments and let your child decorate the jar.
Once they’re finished, place a tea light inside and light it up. You can display the tea light vase as a centerpiece or use it as a nightlight.
12. String Art
String art is a great way to teach kids about the shapes of letters and numbers. Pick up some whitewood boards, nails, colored string, a hammer, and markers. Have your kids draw out their initials, favorite shape or number on a board and hammer in nails to trace the shape.
Then have them thread a piece of string around the nails to create the design.
13. Paper Bag Puppets
Paper bag puppets are fun and easy to make. Start by cutting a brown paper bag in half and stapling each side together.
Then have your child draw a face or design with markers or crayons. They can also use glue to attach pompoms, buttons, and other household items to create the features. Then cut out two strips for the arms and string for the mouth.
Your puppet is now ready to come alive! ConclusionCrafting with your kids is a great way to spend quality time together.
With a few household items and a lot of imagination, your children can make some amazing and interesting crafts. Whether it’s making a mask from a paper plate or a puppet from a brown paper bag, the possibilities are endless. So get crafting and let the fun begin!