Crafts For Kids: How to Come up With a Craft Idea for Kid Programs

Crafts For Kids: How to Come up With a Craft Idea for Kid Programs

Did your search for Crafts for Kids get you to this blog? Are you looking for crafts ideas for kid's enrichment? Maybe you feel like you are just not the creative type, and you struggle with coming up with craft projects. It is true that some people just have a knack for finding or even inventing craft ideas, but your creativity can be improved. There are ways to make it easier to find a craft idea for kid needs.

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Tips for finding kids crafts:

1. Lay aside any perfectionism

Locking yourself into thinking there is only one right way to do something makes every decision harder. Regardless of the kid program you are helping with, there are always many suitable craft ideas out there. Don't worry about picking the wrong one! If you've taken into consideration the age and skill levels of the kids involved, your choice will be adequate.

2. Consider your budget

When choosing a craft idea for kid programs, you need to be aware that some of them are expensive. Prepackaged kits to make a fun foam picture frame or a craft stick cross are affordable for a few kids, but if you are needing to do a craft with a lot of kids, these kits might cost too much. It's often easy to do almost exactly the same project by just looking at the craft kit components and buying the same materials in bulk at the discount store. You may have to do some preparation, like cutting out shapes ahead of time, or at least making cardboard patterns for the kids to use in cutting out their own. The savings will be worth it, however.

3. Different crafts for boys and girls

In spite of years of indoctrination from women's libbers, the fact remains that boys and girls like different sorts of crafts! If the craft seems a little girly, don't use it at boys' camp. Stick with lace-up leather billfolds, Indian artifacts, dinosaur art, and similar projects. Girls will like beads and anything that's pink or purple. For a craft idea for kid camp where there are kids of both sexes, keep it on the boyish side and provide some pink materials to keep the girls happy.

4. Let ideas spring from examples

An aspect of creativity that the non-creative types don't realize is that ideas spring from other ideas. That is, if you look over a book or website of craft ideas, maybe none of them will appeal to you, but if you let them, they will spark an idea for a similar project. Use what you can and change what you must in the craft directions. For instance, the craft may have a slogan to be written across the front. If you need to change the slogan to fit your own needs, it's perfectly OK. For instance, the pictured project might say "Girls rock!" You can change that to "He is the Rock!" if that meets your VBS needs better.

5. Follow the instruction if you find it easier

A final suggestion is to realize that you don't have to change the instructions or create something new to have a good craft idea for kid use. Feel free to follow the instructions to the letter if that works better for you. The kids will have a great time either way. Just pick a craft idea, for kid creativity beats adult creativity every time! The kids will make it creative, even if you have doubts about your own ability in this area.

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Kids Crafts - Decorating a Flower Pot

Kids Crafts - Decorating a Flower Pot

This is one of our Fun Kids Crafts where the end result can really be used as a decoration for any occasion. Adapt the colors to the occasion and the color scheme for your table.

What you need for this kids craft:

• A small terra-cotta flower pot
• Acrylic paint in the desired colors
• A pencil with an eraser at the back
• Wide green crafts sticks (1 to make the stem for each flower you want to make)
• Dirt to fill your pot with
• Small pebbles to cover the dirt in the pot with
• Sticky-back crafting foam flowers and circles (for as many flowers as you want to put in your pot)
• As many paper plates as the colors you are using

How to do this craft:

1. Pour a little paint in a paper plate
2. Dip the eraser of your pencil in the paint and press it on the pot to make a spot.
3. Decorate the whole pot in this way with as many colors as you want.
4. Let the paint dry completely.
5. Fill the pot with the dirt.
6. Make a foam flower by sticking a large flower onto a stick, then press a smaller one on top of that one, to make a layered flower, and finally press a dot in the middle to make the center of the flower.
7. Now you push the sticks into the dirt in the pot.
8. Cover the dirt with the pebbles
9. You can also paint the pebbles if you wish to make it more colorful.

This is one of our Kids Crafts that you can adapt for many different uses. It is of course possible to plant a real plant in the pots and not the foam ones. You can also use this same kids craft to decorate bigger houseplant pots. Give the kids an opportunity to experiment and develop there creativity in this way.

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Kids Summer Crafts - Decorating Flower Pots Craft

This is one of our really fun kid's summer crafts. It can also be used as a spring craft and then you can plant some plant in it that needs to be planted in spring. Doing kids summer crafts is a way to get outdoors with the kids and have fun in the sun.

What you need for this crafts:

• Terra-Cotta flower pots
• Acrylic paint
• Paintbrushes
• Thick white crafts glue
• Paint markers
• Pencil
• Clear fat glass marbles (you should get these at a crafts shop)
• Potting soil
• A suitable seedling for the pot
• Watering can with water

How to do this craft:

In this craft we are going to decorate our flower pots with different slithery snakes and some bugs.

1. Let's start with a snake to coil around the pot
2. Take the marbles and draw eyes with paint on the flat side of the marbles. If you do not want to do this you can of course get colored marbles and use as is.
3. Let the easy dry.
4. With your pencil draw a snake's head and the snake's body curling around your pot and ending at the bottom.
5. Using your paint, color in your snake. Leave spaces spread over the body of your snake so you can use another color and paint spots and stripes for your snake.
6. Let the one color dry and then do the spots.
7. Use the paint markers to draw the outlines of your snake.
8. Now ask an adult to paint your thumbs with paint.
9. Press your thumb on any of the empty spaces between your curling snake to make the bodies of ladybirds.
10. Draw the detail of the ladybird's spots etc. with your paint marker.
11. Stick the snake's eyes on with the clue and let it dry.
12. Fill your pot with potting soil and plant your seedling.
13. Water your plant.

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Food Crafts For Kids - Make Your Own Soda

This is one of our easy Food Crafts For Kids that is maybe more of a science lesson than a crafts. With this craft the kids will see how the acid in the juice reacts with the alkaline bicarbonate of soda. In this easy food craft for kids they make a simple lemon and orange soda that is good enough to drink.

What you need for this craft:

• 2 Cups freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 Cups freshly squeezed orange juice
• 2 Teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
• 4 Teaspoons of sugar
• 4 Cups of water

How to do this craft:

1. Mix the juices and the water.
2. Add the sugar and stir until melted.
3. Add the bicarbonate of soda and stir (observe the bubbles as the carbon dioxide forms as a result of the bicarbonate of soda reacting with the juice.)
4. Your soda drink is ready to drink.

You have to drink the soda immediately as the bubbles will disappear fast when the reaction stops.

This craft is an example of the many food crafts for kids that is more than just fun, it is a science lesson as well.

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Food Crafts For Kids: Baking Tasty Bread Rolls

This is one of our food crafts for kids that can serve as a science lesson as well. You can explain to the kids how the yeast grows on the flour and sugar to produce carbon dioxide and that it is the bubbles of carbon dioxide trapped in the dough that gives the bread its lovely soft texture.

As this craft use heat, it must be done with adult supervision. I also do not think the kids will mange the kneading on their own. Make sure you use oven mitts when you take the rolls out of the oven.

What you need for this craft:

• 1 lb Strong white bread flour
• 1 Teaspoon salt
• 2 Teaspoons easy-blend instant yeast
• 2 Teaspoons sugar
• 1 Cup of boiled cooled water (you may need a little more depending on the strength of the flour)
• 2 Tablespoons of oil
• Milk for brushing
• A food brush
• A greased baking tray
• A large glass bowl
• A wooden spoon
• Sesame seeds
• Oven mitts
• Wire rack

How to do this craft:

1. Sift the flour and the salt into a glass bowl.
2. Add the sugar and yeast and stir it in.
3. Pour the warm water and the oil into this mixture and stir it in with the wooden spoon to make a soft dough (the water must only be warm and not too hot or it will kill the yeast and your bread rolls will not rise.)
4. Now you have to dust a clean work surface with flour.
5. Place the dough onto this surface and gently knead it until soft and elastic.
6. Keep on kneading, folding the dough and kneading again for about 10 minutes (you and mom will have to take turns!)
7. Place the dough back into your bowl and cover it with plastic cling wrap.
8. Leave the dough in a warm place to rise until it has doubled in size. This should take about 1 ½ hours.
9. Going back to your work surface, sprinkle it with flour again and knead it for about a minute to squeeze out any large air bubbles.
10. Now you break the dough into 12 even pieces.
11. Roll each piece into a ball and place it on your baking tray.
12. Cover the rolls with cling wrap and let them rise in a warm place until they have doubled in size (about 40 minutes)
13. Preheat the oven to 425⁰ F or gas mark 7.
14. Brush the rolls with a little milk and sprinkle it with the sesame seeds.
15. Bake the rolls in the oven for 12-15 minutes until done (to test if they are done knock on them lightly and they should sound hollow, remember to use oven mitts!)
16. Take the rolls out of the oven and leave them to cool in the baking tray for two minutes.
17. Place them on a wire rack to cool.

You may be wondering why the rolls stop rising once in the oven. It is because the heat of the oven kills the yeast and it stops growing. So, in this food craft for kids we have learned about yeast and how it works in the baking process. This is an example of food crafts for kids that can be very helpful in homeschooling.

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Kids Crafts Ideas: Making Peanut Clusters

When you are thinking of kid's crafts ideas, you must not make the mistake of overlooking the easy crafts. Kids love doing crafts that gives them results fast and if the result is edible, even the better. Making peanut clusters fall into this very easy kids crafts category, it is quick and the end result is very tasty.

Note: because the chocolate needs to be melt over hot water, this craft must be done under adult supervision.

What you need for this craft:

• 8oz Plain milk chocolate (any chocolate will do it does not have to be cooking chocolate; I often use ordinary plain milk chocolate)
• 2 Tablespoon smooth peanut butter
• 1 Cup peanuts
• A small pot or saucepan
• Water
• A glass bowl that fits onto your pot or saucepan without touching the water in it
• Spoon for stirring
• Teaspoon
• Baking tray sprayed with non-stick spray

How to do this craft:

1. Half fill your pot with water and bring it to the boil.
2. Remove from the heat.
3. Break the milk chocolate up into pieces and place them in the glass bowl.
4. Place the bowl over the hot water and stir until melted.
5. Add the peanut butter and peanuts and stir through until all the peanuts are well covered with chocolate and the peanut butter is mixed through well.
6. Spoon teaspoons full of the mixture and allow the chocolate to set.
7. Your clusters are now ready to eat.

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