✂️ 15 Easy Crafts at Home: checklist
Tick things off as you collect them. Always do these with a grown-up.
🛒 Everything you need (57 things)
📋 Activity by activity
1. 🦁 Paper Plate Lion · 20 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 A grown-up helps with scissors. Use safe kids’ scissors.
2. 🦋 Handprint Butterfly · 20 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 Use washable paint and keep it away from your mouth. Wash your hands afterwards.
3. 🌈 Rainbow Tear Collage · 20 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 Ask a grown-up before you tear magazines or books.
4. 🔭 Tube Binoculars · 20 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 A grown-up helps with tape. Keep the string short and never tie it tightly.
5. 📿 Pasta Pattern Necklace · 25 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 Pasta is a choking risk for under 3s. Never put it in your mouth. A grown-up ties the necklace.
6. 🍂 Leaf Rubbings · 15 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 Ask a grown-up before picking leaves. Wash your hands afterwards.
7. ⛓️ Paper Chain Garland · 20 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 A grown-up helps with scissors.
8. 🧦 Sock Puppet · 25 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 Skip buttons, because they can be swallowed. Use stickers or felt. A grown-up uses the glue.
9. 🥣 Salt Dough Shapes · 40 min · age 5+
🧑🤝🧑 A grown-up uses the oven. The dough is very salty, so do not eat it.
10. ⛵ Paper Boat · 20 min · age 5+
🧑🤝🧑 Play with water near a grown-up and wipe up spills.
11. 🐛 Egg Carton Caterpillar · 25 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 A grown-up does the cutting. Use a clean carton.
12. 🐞 Pebble Ladybugs · 25 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 Never put pebbles in your mouth. Wash your hands after painting.
13. 🤖 Cardboard Box Robot · 35 min · age 5+
🧑🤝🧑 A grown-up helps with tape. Fold foil edges so they are not sharp.
14. 🍎 Apple Star Stamps · 20 min · age 5+
🧑🤝🧑 A grown-up cuts the apple. Do not eat the painted apple.
15. 🎭 Stick Puppet Story · 30 min · age 4+
🧑🤝🧑 A grown-up helps with scissors. Keep sticks away from faces.