Free Crafts for Kids

Setting Up with a Busy Box

Before setting up to do free crafts for kids we suggest finding a good work space where your kids can enjoy doing their craft activities, as well as starting a collection of 'goodies' for your Busy Box, this ensures all your kids craft activities remain FREE!

*TIP-Young children spend a substantial amount of their time indoors so creating a clean and safe work area for them will make it easier to set them up with projects to do and have them more inclined to want to use that space. The area needs to be set up for potential spills and splashes. It may even be worth considering moving certain activities to an outdoors area if you are concerned about accidents.

A craft box or busy box, as we call it in my household, is an essential store for all your recycled materials for your child craft projects. It can be added to constantly so that when the next project commences the materials are all there. You will quickly discover what great recyclers your kids are. I now have a hard time throwing out any of our recycling as my daughter is always picking out items for her next craft project! The best thing about the busy box is that it is always being used and it makes all our child crafts free!

Ideas for the busy box include- aluminium foil and pie dishes, beads, bottle tops, cardboard- cylinders, egg carton and assorted boxes, cellophane, chalk, colourful lolly and chocolate wrappers, corks, cotton reels, fabric scraps, feathers, left over gift wrapping, glitter, leaves, paint sample squares, paperbags, paperclips, pebbles, pine cones, pipecleaners, ribbons, seeds and pods, sequins, straws, styrofoam, stickers, string, wool.

As you can see most of these items float through our lives on a regular basis so it is just a matter of being a bit more selective with your recycling. Individual or groups of items can be stored in clear takeaway containers or jars.

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