Arts & Crafts for creative fun!

Arts and crafts bring hours of creative fun and enjoyment to children. They get to put their skills to good use in creating stuff – enjoying the process as well as the end product. Everything you need for your creations is in the box and many items are well-packaged to take with you to keep kids occupied such as when in cars and restaurants. Great to play with alone, or when friends come round to keep them busy.

Arts & Crafts are good party activities where you can create sock puppets, mosaic pictures, magic painting pens, secret pictures, bath jellies, balloon characters, playdough castles, scratch art and more…

10 Arts & Crafts for hours of creative fun for your kids!

Jumboo Hand Puppets Wild Craft Kit

Kids will have hours of fun making this fun and colourful set of four wild animal puppets that include a tiger, a crocodile, a zebra and a giraffe. Kids can follow the easy step by step guide and create the puppets by themselves. They can then use the characters they make to create a story and put on a show for the family. This helps them gain self-confidence and presentation skills as well stimulating their creativity and story building skills. The set comes with everything needed to complete all four puppets.

Number of players: 1-4
Brand: Jumboo
Age: 5+

Craft Caddy

A handy caddy craft box filled with everything you need for hours of fun and endless creations. Create pompom characters, a sparkly sequin butterfly, a creepy spider with pipe cleaner legs and much much more. The kit comes with an ideas sheet to get you started and then let your creativity go wild. This set contains 70 pompoms, 40 wiggly eyes, a sequins pack, shredded paper, 10 pipe cleaners, 6 sheets of self-adhesive foam shapes, 7 printed card templates, zigzag scissors, white glue and 2 glitter glues.

Number of players: 1+
Brand: Galt
Age: 5+

Mosaics Milfiori

This cute mosaic set is a perfect arts and crafts activity for younger children 3-6 years old. The mosaic Milfiori activity set features three animal scenes to decorate with pre-cut designer mosaic shapes, that fit onto the corresponding boards. The sturdy box comes with easy-to-understand instructions, perfect to take anywhere for creativity on the go. Great for stimulating little eyes and hands.

Number of players: 1-3
Brand: Djeco
Age: 3-6 years

Shimmer ‘N Sparkles Bubblin Bath Jellies

This set combines many things children love: bubble bath, jelly and making things by themselves. Kids will have so much fun with this unusual craft set where they can make their very own bubbling bath jellies! Super shimmering, sudsy, jiggling fun! This box makes eight Bubblin Bath Jellies! After they have made them they can enjoy using them during bath time. The kit comes with everything you need and includes four moulds: a star, flower, candy, and peace sign.

Number of players: 1
Brand: CraZart
Age: 8+

Do it yourself – 4 balloons to decorate – Damsels

Kids will love decorating their own crazy balloon characters with the variety of fancy hats, clothes, hair and facial features in this beautiful craft kit. Then lots of open ended, imaginative play to be had! The Balloons fit sturdily into the base making four fashionable balloon dolls you can actually play with. Play and create alone or invite some friends over and make one each. The completed damsels measure about 25 x 11cm.

Number of players: 1-4
Brand: Djeco
Age: 5+

Paintastics Colour Changing Painting Pens

We are always looking for mess free fun options especially when it comes to painting and Galt has created just that. These amazing pens have a fine brush tip and with gentle pressure you can write and paint till your hearts content. There is no dripping or dipping in water and the paint dries within seconds. Best of all this set of 5 colours becomes FIFTEEN before your very eyes thanks to the magical properties of the Paintastics magic pen. Every coloured pen can make three colours, just use each of the ends of the magic pen to see the colours magically change before your eyes.

Another option is a set of 12 Paintastics Pens without the colour changing magic pen. This set contains 12 classic colour Fine Tip Washable Paint Brush Pens. The ideal painting experience with no brushes to clean, smudging or mess. The paint is in the brush. An ideal introduction to painting for artists of all ages.

Number of players: 1+
Brand: Galt
Age: 5+

On the Go Scratch Art: My favourite things/ Safari animals – Hidden picture pad

Can you guess what favourite thing or safari animal is hidden on each page? Read the clues–like what tastes sweet and is covered in frosting? / What animal loves being in the water but cannot swim? Then look for the sections with dots and scratch away the surface coating with the included wooden stylus to see if you were right! A charming illustration is concealed on each of the 12 Scratch Art pages. The spiral-bound pad features built-in stylus storage, making it a self-contained craft project that’s perfect for families on the go, great to use in the car or when you are out and about, and encourages fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and lots of creativity.

Number of players: 1
Brand: Melissa & Doug
Age: 5+

On the Go Scratch Art: Sea life/ Fairy tales – Colour reveal pad

Scratch art is a firm favourite with children, and they will love this spiral-bound colour-reveal Scratch Art book that brings colourful underwater/fairy-tale adventures to them for on the go fun! Use the included wooden stylus to scratch the surface, etch details, and reveal 12 sea life/fairy-tale scenes. Fun facts and pattern ideas are included on every page.

Number of players: 1
Brand: Melissa & Doug
Age: 5+

Sock Puppets

A great craft for pre-schoolers. Transform three super-soft sock puppets into a trio of fuzzy friends. This no mess craft features dozens of peel and stick felt shapes, self-adhesive wiggly eyes and fuzzy fun embellishments to decorate the puppets until child’s heart is content. The kit provides everything you need and then the fun continues as they come up with imaginative stories to perform with their puppets.

Number of players: 1-3
Brand: Creativity For Kids
Age: 3+

Picture Transfers (Fairyland, Behind the Wheel, Savannah and the North Pole)

Classic transfers are back in fashion. Children can transport themselves to magical and enchanting worlds in these beautiful themed sets. Just rub the pictures with a pencil on the reverse to transfer them onto the illustrated scenes. This process alone will have your children fascinated. Easy to use and perfect to take on holiday or to a restaurant. Sets contain three large background boards and 90 image transfers to match the chosen theme.

Number of players: 1-3
Brand: Djeco
Age: 4-8

Junior Tradesman Build a Dough Castle

Build your own fun dough fortress and be the king of your own castle with this build and play castle dough set. Make bricks with the soft pliable dough and follow the plans and build your dream castle. The set includes all the tools and materials needed and comes with 1kg of grey dough, 2 x windows, 1 x drawbridge, 1 x extruder (to make bricks), 1 x spatula and a baseboard. Once it’s built children can enjoy some imaginative playtime and then break it down and build it over and over again.

Number of players: 1
Brand: Junior Tradesman
Age: 4+

 

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