These 18 Fun Family Crafts are craft tutorials (and recipes) for the whole family to enjoy.
If you’re looking for crafts for the whole family, you’ve come to the right place. These are tutorials and recipes perfect for kids, parents and grandparents to enjoy together.
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Fun family crafts to paint and glue (and more)
Are you ready to have lots of fun and probably to get dirty? Here are some awesome painting and gluing crafts!
Sun Catcher
Make your own DIY Flower Sun Catcher! Take your kids outside, pick some flowers and leaves together, dry them and make them into this beautiful home decoration.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 6+
Time: 60+ minutes
A Piece of Cake Hat
Make everyone’s favorite cake into fun hats for the whole family! This craft is perfect if you have some cardboard to recycle and it’s an original idea for a costume. Who wants to turn into red velvet, pavlova or a piece of chocolate cake?
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 10+
Time: 30+ minutes
Paper Plate Face Masks
Making your own version of Venice masks is easy and fun! These masks are ideal for costume parties or just having fun at home and it’s a perfect craft even for small children, with the help of their parents, of course.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 3+
Time: 15+ minutes
Recycled Pencil Stand
Recycle some toilet paper rolls into this gorgeous pencil stand. With this project the kids can learn about re-purposing and make something useful and pretty.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 5+
Time: 30+ minutes
Fire-breathing Dragon
Great project to make an original children’s toy and recycle some toilet paper rolls. You’ll have fun making these fire-breathing dragons as well as playing with them afterwards.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 5+
Time: 30+ minutes
Painting using 3 different techniques
Rainy day? Never mind! Make this beautiful 3D “rainy day” picture using three different techniques.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 5+
Time:30+ minutes
3 Creative Art Projects
Make beautiful art using fingers, stamps and paper embroidery!
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 3+
Time: 30+ minutes
Recycled Mini Hats
The whole family can turn into fashion designers and make some cute doll accessories!
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 5+
Time: 30+ minutes
Paper fun family crafts
Origami Mini Book
An origami mini book is a super cute gift and a project which you can enjoy with your kids.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 5+
Time: 5+ minutes
Miniature Paper Handbag
The paper handbag is a bit more complicated than the origami book so let’s figure it out together as a family? Cute gift or a doll accessory, so get your design paper and let’s do this!
An origami mini book is a super cute gift and a project which you can enjoy with your kids.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 5+
Time: 10+ minutes
“Handmade” Valentine’s Card
Make hand cards of the whole family! They are perfect not only for the St. Valentine’s Day but also as name tags, birthday cards or any other card you can think of.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): baby+ (meaning parents can trace baby’s hand)
Time: 10+ minutes
Countdown Meter
Make a countdown meter to help your children better understand the concept of time. You can use it every day to see how much time’s left until Christmas, vacation, birthday…
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 3+
Time: 10+ minutes
Fun Family Recipes
Traditional Linzer Cookies
Children sure love to make cookies with their parents and grandparents! Cutting out Linzer cookies of different shapes is great fun and gluing them together with marmalade even more so!
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 3+
Time: 60+ minutes (dough+baking)
Vánočka
Braid some traditional sweet Christmas bread with this recipe!
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 5+
Time: 60+ minutes
Fruit Bouquet
The whole family can enjoy cutting out shapes from pineapple, dipping strawberries in chocolate and arranging fruit pieces into a beautiful bouquet.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 5+
Time: 60+ minutes
Traditional Fun Family Crafts
Traditional way to dye Easter eggs
This Easter, learn to dye eggs in a traditional and natural way.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 5+
Time: 60+ minutes
Advent Wreath
What better way to start the Christmas season than making your own Advent wreath for home decor?
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 6+
Time: 60+ minutes
Salt Dough
Did you use to make salt dough when you were little? Salt dough is a plasticine-like material which you can make at home, bake it and make solid decoration. With this tutorial you can personalized keychains.
Tutorial: HERE
Suitable for kids from age (approximately): 4+
Time: 60+ minutes
