Great Craft Web sites
- Activities for Kids
- Offers crafts, coloring, dot to dot, and word search. You can also hear
the Kookaburra song, about a bird who laughs.
- Activity Village - Keeping
Kids Busy - Dozens of free activities for kids 10 and under. Includes
crafts, printables worksheets, coloring pages and puzzles, jigsaws and
wallpaper to download, and links.
- Avalon Studio's
Art Ideas - Instructions for paper and tissue art, 3-D construction,
watercolors, and print making.
- Ben and Jerry's Fun Stuff
- Features on-line fun and craft ideas for kids.
- Bubble Fun
- Teaches kids how to make their own bubbles and wands. Includes tips
on how to make art and color out of bubbles.
- Bubble
Town - How to make giant bubbles, construct a bubble tube, mix a super
bubble blowing solution, and play bubble games.
- Card
Collectors Frame Craft - Instructions to make a frame to display your
Pokemon cards.
- Children
of the Moon - An online playhouse with weekly themes, arts and crafts,
and activities to augment learning through safe exploration of the web.
- A
Child's Project - Instructions for a macrame plant hanger done by
a young lady. Complete with pictures and detailed instructions.
- CoonskinCaps.com - Tells about
the history of the coonskin cap and provides instructions on how to make
a raccoon cap and other items from the American frontier period.
- Craftown: Free Kids Crafts
- Magical puff paint, patchwork flower pots, dancing spoons, recipe cards,
and other fun projects. Also offers special crafts for Valentines, Easter,
Halloween, and Christmas.
- Crayola - Lots of easy, kid-friendly
crafts.
- Creative Kids - Fun activities
for kids and families who love invention and creating crafts.
- Dear Grandpa Pencil - Free
monthly e-zine offers inexpensive fun, information, and activities.
- Easy Tie
Dye - Basic tie-dye instructions to create t-shirts with sunburst,
line, and circle patterns.
- Elmer's Glue - Many crafts for
kids, including educational projects. Also offers projects for adults
and markets supplies.
- Family Crafts from About.com
- A large index of craft projects for kids of all ages.
- Free Paper Cards - Internet
users residing in any part of the Globe may send free paper greeting cards
to their loved ones in India, who may not have regular access to the Internet.
- Gadgets and Gizmos
[ Teens/Mature Teens ] - Free e-book shareware download.
Make 8 interesting mechanical devices and simple hands-on projects from
easily found items.
- Hands On Crafts for Kids -
Lots of easy and creative activities for kids ages 7 to 12. From friendship
bracelets and gingerbread houses to dinosaur soap and upright insects.
- Hatchling Day School
Kid Crafts - Craft projects for little crafters.
- How to
Make a Pop-Up - Joan Irvine, Canadian children's author, explains
with step-by-step drawings how to make a simple pop-up card.
- HowToMakeStuff.com - Includes
directions for making toys and games, kids recipes, art and crafts, science
projects, and costumes.
- Interesting
Hobbies and Crafts - Links to hundreds of craft and hobby related
sites.
- Kid Craft Central - Small
collection of free craft ideas and recipes.
- The Kid's Corner -
Fun craft projects for children.
- Kid's Domain Craft Exchange
- An index of craft projects submitted by parents, teachers, and kids
- Kids Holiday Crafts
- Free crafts, games, puzzles and coloring pages.
- Kid's Kreate - Step-by-step
projects for kids of all ages.
- Kid's Page
- Art and craft ideas for preschoolers through upper elementary students.
Includes seasonal activities and printable coloring pages.
- Kid's Zone - Arts and
crafts for all ages.
- Kids-Idea - Features cutting
paper, crafts, flipbooks, musical instruments, bookcovers, calendar, jigsaw,
puppet, and holiday categories.
- Kidz Korner
- Activities and crafts for grade school kids.
- KinderCrafts
- Crafts for pre-school through elementary aged children.
- Linit Starch Craft Ideas - Ideas
for kid crafts using liquid starch.
- Magical Kingdom Art
Page - Offers printable craft projects, greeting cards, and coloring
books. Graphics intensive.
- Mail Just 4 Me Playground
- Themed and holiday craft ideas for kids, including unique projects and
kid-friendly instructions.
- Make-Stuff.com
- Creative projects kids can do themselves, plus recipes for stuff they
can make at home.
- MakingFriends.com - Free
creative activities for kids ages 2 through 15. Also markets craft supplies.
- Michael's Kids
Club - Craft ideas for kids from 4 to 11.
- Nestle - VeryBestKids.com
- Offers hundreds of arts and crafts, cooking and baking, learning fun
and holidays and celebrations activities.
- Paper Projects
- Crafts and project ideas for things like pop-up cards and origami.
- Rainy Day Craft Ideas
for Children - Offers instructions for a few projects, such as gak,
playdough, bookmarks, and bath salts.
- Slickditty - How-to instructions
for making fun, low-cost gadgets and gizmos.
- Squigly's
Arts and Crafts - Color pictures, create all sorts of fun things,
or make personalized stationery.
- The
Sugar Bush - Bright ideas and crafts for children.
- Things2Make - Craft ideas
complete with fun animated instructions.
- The Toymaker - Paper toys
to print, cut, glue, and enjoy.
- Where Shmonsters Go to Play
- Creative ideas for dollhouse decorating, pumpkin carving, sticker frames,
costumes, and other fun projects.
- YES Mag's Projects
- Interesting project ideas for older kids to try. Try making a geodesic
dome out of newspaper large enough to get inside.
- Young Embroiderers - Embroidery
discovery space for children and anyone involved in textile art, craft
and education.
- The Youth Online Club
- Boasts large collection of crafts and experiments for anytime and anyplace.