Crafts for Kids

Explore the properties of different ingredients and how they can transform while creating tasty — and safe — edible slime.

A fun, simple craft to make your own bouncy balls. Encourage your child to experiment with different sizes and shapes to see how the balls move differently.

Investigate ways to create different pitch, tones and sounds by creating your own glass bottle water xylophone.

Learn about household objects that sink and float in this easy-to-prepare activity.

Using paper and string, your child will create a pulley system and pretend a rocket ship is soaring through space. As you create your rocket, discuss the pulley system with your child. Encourage your child to experiment with the string pulley system.

Explore your creativity with this magical craft activity and make a wand just like the one Pinkalicious uses in Pinkalicious and Peterrific!

What if you could jump rope without using any rope? Now you can! Transform ordinary bags into plarn (plastic + yarn = plarn) to make jump rope. This activity will inspire your child to think about creative ways to recycle and reuse household items that might otherwise be thrown away.

In this activity, your child will use the crayon resist painting technique to write secret messages! When you write with a white crayon on white paper, the writing appears invisible . . . but when you brush over it with watercolor paint, the message shows up!

Going on a nature walk is a great way to learn about the world. In this activity, you and your child will create beautiful dragonflies using a mix of objects you find on your nature walk.

The Kratt brothers love learning about and observing animals, big and small. Observe one of the world’s smallest birds by making a feeder for hummingbirds!

We can all do something to help keep our oceans healthy. In this activity, kids will upcycle materials that are commonly discarded into the sea to make their own plastic bottle fish.

Recycling benefits land and oceans. Rather than throwing away plastic bags, kids can creatively reuse them to create this mesmerizing jellyfish in a bottle.