With the holiday season right around the corner, it’s time to think about what activities you can do with the kids. When winter comes, there are fewer opportunities to go outdoors due to bad weather.
You don’t want your children to spend their time cooped up inside watching TV and playing video games all day. Luckily, there are plenty of arts and crafts ideas for kids this winter. Even better, many of them can be done indoors and can be delivered direct with all the craft supplies you need for a rainy day.
These activities will keep your child busy and happy, giving you a break from their usual shenanigans as well as keeping them occupied for hours on end. Here are some great ideas that will have your little one excited about the upcoming colder months!
First Knitting
Price: £10.99
This knitting kit will teach children how to knit and French knit quickly, and they’ll enjoy crafting adorable bracelets, purses, and bags as they go. It comes with a simple, step-by-step photo tutorial that teaches knitting techniques like French knitting, casting on and off, plain and pearl stitches, and more.
This excellent value kit comes with 8 different pink and lilac wool balls, 4 mm needles, a bodkin, a French knitter, and patterns.
Creativity For Kids Grow ‘N Glow Terrarium
Crafty Arts
Price: £13.49
Their GROW garden projects will hold kids’ attention all year long whether you have a garden or not and are confined indoors due to the weather. These kits are great for connecting with nature and expressing their artistic side. They will keep your kids entertained as they learn so makes for ideal craft ideas.
They can use glow-in-the-dark stickers to add an extra dimension to their jar and watch the fireflies’ glow while turning their mason jar into a miniature home for actual plants and tiny figurines.
Glow Window Art
Mulberry Bush
Price: £17.99
The Glow Window Art set is an enjoyable artistic endeavour for all children! They can make beautiful window artwork, peelable luminous decorations in more than 60 designs, and two suncatchers with unique glow colours. 6 squeezy glow paint bottles are also included, along with other materials.
They can select a design or come up with their own. All they’ll have to do is just use liner paint to mimic the outline and glow paint to fill it in. It can be easily peeled and displayed on any glass surface, including windows, mirrors, and more, after it has dried.
Cool Maker Pottery Cool Studio
Argos
Price: £20
The pottery studio is the newest method for using clay to create special pottery masterpieces! Children can place the clay discs on the pottery wheel, shape them, and let them spin as they sculpt and alter the pattern of their pottery with the carving tools provided! They can let their clay creation dry naturally, then decorate it with colourful paints to put on display.
You can create six clay crafts in the Pottery Cool Studio, or you can get inventive and sculpt your own creations. 6 clay objects can be created, painted, and displayed with the pottery cool studio!
Junior Carpenter Tool Set
Mulberry Bush
Price: £32
An excellent introductory carpentry set for young carpenters to begin woodworking that includes scaled-down functional replicas of genuine tools. The set is packed in a sturdy, solid-wood storage cabinet with metal carrying handles and hinged, winged doors.
The fully functional tool set features tools such as a saw, mallet, pliers, clamp, screwdrivers, sandpaper, blunted chisel plane, bradawl and more. Your kids will now be equipped to carry out little tasks around the house.
Paw Patrol Ezee Beads
Crafty Arts
Price: £11.72
Kids can make their own colourful Ezee bead shapes that mysteriously adhere to one another when exposed to water! They can let their creativity run wild and design their own original patterns with eZee Beads kits, which are great fun for all ages.
Bright beads can be used to make a variety of designs that you can hang on a wall, use to adorn bedroom furniture, or even give as a special gift to friends. Once the beads are inserted into the template board, the magnificent designs are simply created by merging the beads with water.
This is a great activity to do with toddlers under supervision as they can help sort the beads into colours to help develop fine motor skills.
Flower Box Multi Activity Kit
Mulberry Bush
Price: £29
A great present for kids that are creatively inclined. This mixed media art set comes with a ton of supplies and instructions to make a variety of projects. They can create different art pieces like 3D pictures, 3D flowers, glitter collages, scratch art garlands, drawings, stamping and paintings.
The set also includes a visual instruction booklet, pre-cut shapes, printed pictures, a paint set, stampers, a stamp pad and a brush. A wonderfully lovely, motivating package for kids who enjoy crafting and discovering new artistic methods.
String Art
Amazon
Price: £31.74
To introduce your children to string art, give them this wonderful item. Watch as your kids create art using string and pins. A pin pushing tool, corrugated boards, tracing paper, decorative backing paper, and more than 500 pins are included. There are hours of entertainment with enough supplies to create three large and four tiny works of art!
Make Your Own Birdhouse
Mulberry Bush
Price: £16.99
Create a unique craft project by adding your own special touches. Utilize the pre-cut and pre-drilled wood parts to construct a wooden birdhouse, then decorate it with the provided paint and brush. The set includes 11 wooden pre-drilled bird house panels, 24 screws and 4 pots of paint and brush. This is a fantastic craft for kids to do that is also practical! To finish this project, you’ll need a little crosshead screwdriver.
Pom Pom Pets
Mulberry Bush
Price: £15.99
With the help of this fantastic craft kit, you can make colourful and cute animals for easy craft ideas. Use the basic weaving tool to make pompoms and add embellishments to create dogs, cats, unicorns, frogs and more for so much fun for younger children. Pompom weaving tools, yarn, pre-cut felt pieces, noses, eyes, glue, and instructions are all included in the set.
We’ve hoped you’ve enjoyed our tips for fun craft ideas for kids.
