Stuff you can make WITH kids
Fun craft activities with kids ages 2 and up
(latest craft at the end of this list)
- Clayphabet (pre-writing and counting exercise)
- Egg Tray Garden (practice fine motor skills and sequential learning)
- Daddy Long Legs (practice fine motor skills and spatial awareness)
- Mr Man (practice fine motor skills when making your very own toilet roll action figure)*
- 7 Blind Mice and an Elephant (retelling of the popular story)*
- Mr Crab (just a fun thing to do in 15 minutes, roll out the beach towel!)
- 3 Little Pigs (retelling of the popular story)
- It’s a C, it’s a Snake (learn about shapes, colours and oh a big snake)
- The Hungry Tiger (kiddy golf!)
- The Easter Bunny Looks for his Eggs (listening comprehension & memory activity)
- Dragon Boat (row, row, row your boat)
- Jiggly Robot (stack, paste and jiggle)
- Birdie Hand Puppets (flap flap flap)
- My Shrimpy Tankfolks (upsizing crystal red bee shrimps)
- Sushi Time (Japanese cuisine anyone? also can practice fine motor skills)
- DimSumilicious (Everyone loves dimsum! another round of fine motor practice to work up an appetite)
- Mr & Mrs Jigglies (kiddo initiated DIY Toy)
- The Swirly Octopus (a happy dancing octopus)
- Beach-in-a-box (let’s learn about what lives at the seaside)
- Piece-a-tree (why some trees have leaves sometimes…..)
- The Rolling Penguins (Ready, steady…ROLL!)
- Read-a-Clock (time to learn to read Time)
- Carrot monster mask (inspired by PNG tribal headdresses)
- Piggybank (picking up a good habit)
- My Pet Dragon (ever wanted one as a pet?)
- Maketh a Minion (for your own little minion)
- Paper bag BigBrownMonster (your very own foldable BBM)
- Sushi Monster (a grab-&-go pocket monster toy)
- Change-a-scene card (simple interactive card to make)
- LoomBox (make your very own loom)
- Kaleidoscopes (kiddo learns some properties of light)
- Birdies (it’s Easter and it’s not always about eggs)
- Paper Dolls (remember before you had Barbie dolls?)
- Batty Bat (HellloooooHallllooooweeeen)
- Foxy Papermache Mask (Dressup time again!)
All projects designed by BigBrownMonster unless stated otherwise. Please feel free to share the projects and BigBrownMonster hopes to hear of other great ideas from you too!
* denotes step-by-step instructions are included.