Seasonal and Holiday Crafts for Kids
Kids can get creative all year long with simple craft ideas for every holiday and season. These are perfect for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary-age kids to enjoy all year long.
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As the seasons change and bring with them new colors, sights, sounds, and holidays, kids have new opportunities to explore and learn about them. Seasonal and holiday crafts give kids a hands-on way to enjoy special traditions, notice what’s happening in the world around them, and get creative along the way. Use our collection of easy seasonal and holiday crafts for kids to enjoy throughout the year, from fall and Halloween all the way to summer and back-to-school time!
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Combine crafting and learning the ABCs with our collection of Letter Crafts for Kids featuring activities for every letter of the alphabet. For easy on-the-go activities, try our free printable coloring pages or our free digital coloring pages.
Fall Crafts
Celebrate the sights and colors of autumn with fall crafts inspired by pumpkins, apples, colorful leaves, and more. For Halloween, kids can create silly and spooky projects, while Thanksgiving crafts offer creative ways to explore turkeys and other traditions of the holiday. Find dozens more free fall activities and printables for kids here, including ideas for Halloween and Thanksgiving.
Featured Fall Crafts for Kids
Explore a few of our favorite fall crafts that are simple, fun and perfect for creative learning.
Paper Plate Apple Lacing
A red plate, construction paper, hole punch tool, and string are all that’s needed for this simple craft.
Pom Pom Acorns
Gather up some acorn tops outside and glue them on to fall colored pom poms to complete this idea.
Butterfly Leaf
Create a nature-inspired butterfly with fall leaves, construction paper, and googly eyes.
Featured Halloween Crafts for Kids
Get into the spooky spirit with easy craft ideas featuring monsters, candy corn, pumpkins, and other kid-friendly Halloween favorites. These creative Halloween crafts use simple materials and offer fun, hands-on activities for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary-age kids.
Candy Corn Collage
A classic Halloween candy becomes a work of art in just a few steps.
Cracker Spider
Turn round crackers, pretzel sticks, and candy eyes into tasty spider snack.
Melting Monster Craft
Making slime gets even more fun when it looks like a monster.
Featured Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids
Celebrate the season of gratitude with easy Thanksgiving crafts for kids featuring turkeys, colorful fall materials, and festive projects. These hands-on activities give preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary-age kids creative ways to enjoy Thanksgiving at home or in the classroom.
Bead Corn Craft
Work in math practice as kids count out the beads and pipe cleaners they’ll need for this seasonal craft.
Painted Gratitude Rocks
This is a great group activity to do as a classroom, family, or in between courses on the big day!
Personalized Thanksgiving Placemat
Use this project to create an individualized placemat for each guest at your Thanksgiving feast. Work with your child write down all the reasons they’re thankful for each person!
Winter Crafts
Cold winter days offer plenty of inspiration for crafting! Kids can celebrate the season with snowmen, snowflakes, and snow globes, make festive Christmas crafts and keepsakes, and add a little sweetness to chilly days with Valentine’s Day crafts for friends and family. These easy winter crafts for kids offer creative ways to explore the season while practicing fine motor skills and enjoying hands-on fun at home or in the classroom.
Featured Winter Crafts for Kids
Cooler weather means more time indoors and plenty of opportunities for art projects celebrating snowmen, snowflakes, and other seasonal favorites. Using simple materials, these hands-on activities give preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary-age kids an engaging way to make their own unique seasonal creations.
Snowman Popcorn Cup
Here’s a craft that transitions perfectly to a cozy winter family movie night.
Yarn Wrapped Snowman
Build fine motor skills while crafting as kids wrap card stock with yarn and transform it into a snowman.
Paper Plate Snow Globe
A white plate, a clear plate, and some glitter are the secret supplies to creating these DIY snow globes.
Featured Christmas Crafts for Kids
Bring extra cheer to the holiday season with easy Christmas crafts for kids featuring festive trees, ornaments, snowmen, and handmade keepsakes. These creative projects are fun for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary-age kids to make at home, in the classroom, or with family and friends.
Printable Christmas Crafts
Keep crafting simple and mess-free with printable Christmas crafts for kids that only require a few basic supplies, such as crayons, scissors, and glue. Kids can color, cut, and assemble their own festive creations for a fun holiday activity at home or in the classroom.
Ice Cream Cone Christmas Tree
Kids may love Christmas trees even more when they can be coated in frosting and decorated with candy.
Melted Snowman Ornament
These clever ornaments make great keepsakes and a cinch to assemble. We recommend using a funnel to fill the ornament with “snow.”
Featured Valentines Day Crafts for Kids
Easy Valentine’s Day crafts for kids make it simple to share a little love with friends, family, and classmates. Preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary-age kids can create handmade cards and gifts, colorful decorations, and heart-filled projects to celebrate the holiday.
Splatter Paint Hearts
This simple painting technique creates a unique effect for Valentine’s Day cards.
String Art Heart
These one-of-kind hearts can be used as cards, bookmarks, or ornaments for friends and family.
Valentine’s Animal Garland
Print and cut out a few sweet animals from our Valentine’s Day coloring pages, then color them and strong on them to yarn to hang.
Spring Crafts
Kids can welcome the season with colorful flowers, butterflies, and caterpillars, celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with rainbows and shamrocks, and get ready for Easter with chicks, lambs, and decorated eggs. These spring crafts for kids offer fun ways to explore the season, get creative, and make cheerful decorations and keepsakes to share with loved ones.
Featured Spring Crafts for Kids
Celebrate the changing season with easy spring crafts for kids inspired by colorful flowers, butterflies, caterpillars, and nature. These hands-on projects use simple materials and give kids fun ways to explore the colors, plants, and animals that make spring special.
Pom pom Caterpillar
This simple craft idea invites kids to practice naming coloring or making patterns as they create.
Bowtie Noodle Butterflies
Uncooked noodles transform into butterflies with a coat of paint and drawn-in antenna.
Cupcake Liner Flowers
Create a pot of cheerful flowers with craft sticks, cupcake liners, and pom poms or buttons.
Featured Flower Crafts for Kids
Bring colorful blooms to life with easy flower crafts for kids using paper, paint, buttons, and other everyday supplies. Children can create cheerful bouquets, garden-inspired decorations, and handmade flowers to display or give as gifts to brighten up any space.
Handprint Flower Painting
Handprints make special flower petals in this simple craft that also makes a sweet springtime keepsake.
Gift Bow Hyacinth
Gift bows stacked tightly together form hyacinth flowers while craft sticks and construction paper make stems and leaves.
3D Flower Vases
Draw a vase and stems onto a sheet of cardboard, then pop holes through to slide in the the real flowers, creating a unique 3D piece of art.
Featured St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for Kids
Celebrate March 17th with easy St. Patrick’s Day crafts for kids inspired by shamrocks, rainbows, leprechauns, pots of gold, and other holiday favorites. Children can make colorful decorations, cards, and keepsakes while enjoying imaginative ways to get into the St. Patrick’s Day spirit.
Paper Plate Rainbow
Kids can create a rainbow with finger prints and cotton balls, and then hang it up for the holiday or to brighten rainy spring days.
Leprechaun Windsock
Whether hanging inside or outside, this construction and tissue paper windsock adds a festive touch anywhere it hangs.
Featured Easter Crafts for Kids
Bunnies, colorful eggs, fluffy chicks, and springtime flowers provide plenty of inspiration for easy Easter crafts for kids. From festive decorations to homemade cards and keepsakes, these Easter craft ideas give preschoolers, kindergartners, and elementary-aged kids dozens of ways to celebrate the season.
Fork-Painted Baby Chick
Turn a fork into a one-of-a-kind paintbrush to create this fluffy looking baby chick.
Vinegar & Baking Soda Easter Eggs
Kids will love the fizzing and bubbles that erupt as they make these marbled Easter eggs.
Paper Doily Lamb
Stack a few different sized doilies on top of each other and add an adorable face, and kids will end up with a cute Easter lamb.
Featured Homemade Mother’s Day Cards for Kids to Make
Make Mom’s day extra meaningful with homemade Mother’s Day cards for kids to create and personalize. Preschoolers, kindergartners, and elementary-aged kids can use these easy Mother’s Day card ideas to share sweet messages, colorful designs, and heartfelt creations with moms, grandmothers, and other special people in their lives.
Cupcake Liner Daffodil Mother’s Day Card
This cheerful Mother’s Day card comes together quickly with construction paper, a cupcake liner, and glue.
Feathered Mother’s Day Card
Write a thoughtful message to Mom or Grandma on the front of folded card stock and adorn it in colorful craft feathers to create this card.
Button Flowers Mother’s Day Card
Create flowers from old buttons and yarn and glue them down onto folded card stock for a Mother’s Day card that looks just like a garden.
Summer Crafts
Summer brings plenty of ways for kids to get creative, from ocean-inspired art and ice painting to crafts that sneak in a little learning along the way. As a new school year approaches, back-to-school projects like first-day crowns, pencil crafts, and personalized backpack accessories can help kids celebrate the transition while creating useful items and special keepsakes.
Featured Summer Crafts for Kids
These easy summer crafts for kids are inspired by sunshine, the beach, nature, and other warm-weather favorites and give kids simple ways to get creative during summer break at home, camp, or in the classroom.
Tin Foil Ocean Painting
Turn tinfoil into a canvas for children to paint an ocean or any other summer scenes. Use cotton swaps as paint brushes to add a textured look.
Ice Painting Craft
Cool off while getting creative! As these colorful ice cubes melt, they become paint brushes with built-in paint.
Ice Cream Cone Counting
This craft idea adds in math practice as kids stack up paper scoops to match the number on the cones.
Examples of our Back-to-School Crafts for Kids
From first day of school signs to ice breaker activities and tips to get kids excited for school, our collection of Back-to-School Resources for Parents and Teachers are designed to get everyone ready for a new school year. You’ll find ice breaker activities, tips and ideas to get kids excited about school, and printable coloring pages and first day of school signs.
First Day of School Crown
Add a festive touch to the first day by letting kids personalize a crown while also commemorating the start of a new school year.
P is for Pencil
Turn the letter P into a colorful pencil with this simple back-to-school craft that combines letter learning with creativity!
Beaded Zipper Pull
Kids can personalize their backpacks with these easy-to-make zipper pulls, created with letter beads and pipe cleaners.
