Category Archives: Holiday and Seasonal Crafts

Looking for some Easter craft activites for children? Simple Easter craft projects based on eggs are great project ideas: (Eggscellent in fact)

painted easter egg

I couldn’t resist the eggcellent comment in the title about Easter crafts activities for kids even I now it is a bit corny. There are many Easter activities for children that unfortunately, most of them include lots of copycat arts and crafts. This is because  many of the ideas they want to use just don’t…

Hanukkah Crafts for Kids:A great preschool craft is a collage Hanukkah menorah

If you want to make Hanukkah crafts for kids there is a way to do them that is very creative. The activity I am going to show you here is a Hanukkah (or Chanukah collage). If you are looking for Hanukkah decorations then this may not be a standard decoration but, can certainly be used…

Winter crafts for kids: creative craft projects including creative snowmen

Snowman collage

There are many winter art activities that you can do with kids that are very creative. Above are a few of them that I will discuss in further detail. The standard winter crafts for kids in a traditional early childhood or preschool classroom would probably be a snowman arts and crafts. There are various snowman crafts ideas that are…

Cheap Christmas craft project ideas to make with kids at home or in any preschool or kindergarten environment

Christmas crafts for children  are all over the place. You can make an expensive  Christmas craft for kids with many elaborate store bought materials which often mean that they are going to be typical copycat ones, or you can stick with me and make cheap, simple, developmentally appropriate crafts, in this case ornaments. What I…

Thanksgiving Crafts Projects: Awesome Turkeys and Indian Pottery

finished clay bowl, unpainted

Fun Thanksgiving projects for kids Preschool and kindergarten teachers normally automatically have the children create boring, copycat turkeys for their Thanksgiving crafts projects. Why however, do Thanksgiving crafts for preschool have to be like that? Can you see yourself creating a fun project like the one below?   For anyone of you that have been…