Cardboard Craft Ideas For Kids

Make great use of your spare cardboard and keep the kids entertained these holidays with our list of amazing easy cardboard crafts for kids. Check out our list below, and don’t forget to share it with your friends! 

1. Toilet Roll Animals

There are so many toilet roll crafts out there, we just love these cute animals! You can use paint, paper and googly-eyes to add details to this once you get the shape right. 

2. Shoebox Foosball

If you’re after easy crafts for kids, this shoebox foosball table is perfect and will keep the kids entertained for hours! Simply paint the tips of the pegs and clip them to some wooden skewers. Make sure to cut off or cover any sharp edges for younger children.

3. Cereal Box Aquarium 

This adorable cereal box diorama is super fun to make and looks wonderful. Glue the box lid shut and cut a window out in the front, then let the little ones decorate as much as they want!

4. Wrapping Paper Roll Swords

Re-use your leftover wrapping paper rolls to make these super simple toy swords. If your kids love to paint or draw they can have lots of fun decorating these swords before playtime!

5. Egg Carton Critters

Egg carton crafts are a favourite in our household! Re-use your old egg cartons with some pipe cleaners, paint and googly eyes to create these cute crawling critters. This one is perfect for anyone whose little ones are obsessed with bugs at the moment!

6. DIY Cubby House

This DIY cubby house is perfect if you have any large boxes left over from the holiday period or from recent purchases. You may have to build the house, but your little one will love decorating and playing in it.

7. Cardboard Marble Maze

This marble maze for kids will keep your little ones entertained for hours as they try and guide their marble through the obstacles. You can use two stacked box lids for the base and add popsicle sticks with glue for the maze walls. Don’t forget to add marble sized holes to make it even trickier! 

8. Shoe Box Dollhouse

Is your little one looking for fun things to do at home? They will love creating a bedroom for their favourite doll or action figure. You can use a shoe box for the walls, thick wool for the carpet and sponges for the bedding and furniture. If you’ve got enough shoe boxes you could create a whole house! 

9. Cardboard Marble Run

Have a ball making your own DIY marble run. It’s a great recycled craft idea to make use out of any spare box lids you might have laying around, and you can customise the obstacles to be as simple or as complicated as you like.

10. Milk Carton Houses

We couldn’t put together a list of crafts for kids without these adorable milk carton houses! They’re super easy to make, and if you have quite a few of them you could even make a town! Simply make sure the carton is clean and dry before you glue it shut, add paint and use markers for the details.

Were these cardboard crafts for kids a hit? Don’t forget to check out our list of 100+ Crafts For Kids At Home for hours of art and craft ideas for kids!

Kids Educational Resources

If you’re looking for educational activities for your kids, make sure you check out our amazing range of educational products! Personalised with your little one’s name and printed to order, they’re sure to be a hit. 

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Waste Free Craft Ideas

Do you have lots of empty shoeboxes laying around? It feels like someone in our house needs a new pair of shoes every few months, which has led to quite the collection of shoeboxes! Check out some fun shoebox craft ideas below, and don’t forget to share them with your friends.

1. Hanging Shelf

We love craft activities for kids that result in something you will actually use! What a sweet idea to turn a shoebox into an adorable hanging shelf.

2. Shoebox Town

There are so many benefits to pretend play, and this shoebox town will provide hours of imaginative play. Mix and match the buildings to create a new town every time. 

3. Paper Doll Swing

What a lovely idea to make a shoebox diorama with a swing for a paper doll. Once they’ve finished playing with it, it will look super sweet in their bedroom or play area. 

4. Class Room

Arts and crafts for kids can be even more fun when you involve some of their other toys!  Build a class room for your lego figures to go to school in.

5. Marble Maze

Using the lid of a shoe box, build a marble maze or run. Alternatively, you can replace the marble with a magnet, and use another magnet underneath for your child to guide the top one through the maze. 

6. Car Wash

DIY craft ideas that can be played with over and over are always a hit in our house! How much fun will your little ones have washing their cars through this car wash.

7. Foosball

Indoor activities for kids can be tricky to come up with, but this foosball game is sure to be popular! Use skewers & painted pegs to make this simple foosball game.

8. Doll House

A shoebox diorama is perfect for making a room (or a whole dollhouse!) for your toys to live in. 

9. Pizza Oven

Play food is a favourite with my little one. Make this cute pizza oven so your kids can pretend they have a pizza restaurant & take your order.

10. Light Theatre

How clever is this light theatre. Arts and crafts for kids that involve story telling are a great way to get the whole family involved!

11. Castles

Using shoeboxes & other cardboard boxes & tubes, your child might love making their own castles. With free rein to paint and decorate their castle, this is a great activity for engaging your kids imagination! 

12. Guitar

Running out of fun things to do at home? Try putting a band together with your little ones! What other instruments can you make other than this guitar? 

13. Catapult

Make a catapult using a shoebox, and then build a tower with toilet paper rolls or other recyclables to try and knock over. This is one of those fun activities for kids that is sure to get lots of giggles!

14. Wall Art

Cut the shoebox lid down or keep as is & paint, paper mache or cover with patterned paper to make a cheap and colourful kids wall art.

15. Stationery Caddy

Who doesn’t love craft activities that make something you can use around the home? Fill your shoebox with toilet rolls to separate your stationery items for a simple stationery caddy.

16. Shelves

Another one of our favourite craft ideas to help decorate your walls. Upcycle your shoeboxes to make cute colourful shelves for displaying trinkets.

17. Storage

Need some toy storage ideas? Cover shoeboxes with lovely paper &  add handles for organised storage solutions. Perfect for keeping the toy room tidy – or trying to. You might like to check out our Chalkboard Labels for labelling each box. 

If you enjoyed these waste free craft ideas, don’t miss out on our mega list of 100+ Activities and Crafts For Kids At Home! 

Kids Educational Resources

All crafted out? Make sure you check out our amazing range of activity books, kids name labels & school supplies. Printed to order, and delivered straight to your door!

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20 Easter Hat Ideas

As a parent, you either love or hate the school Easter hat parade I think! My secret has been to use the same Easter hat every year however I add something to it each year so it looks different!! Would this be considered a parenting fail?!

I know it’s a bit of a struggle to come up with ideas for Easter Hats, so to help you out, here is a list of ideas & inspiration for you ranging from last minute jobs to incredible effort masterpieces!

1.Popping Rabbit Easter Bonnet

This great Easter bonnet idea uses the Spring theme, with a stuffed rabbit popping out of the top of the hat as it would popping out of a rabbit hole. Easy enough to recreate & add lots of fun to any Easter hat parade!

2. Floral Bunny Ears Headband

How sweet and simple is this idea! Wear a flower crown / headband & incorporate some bunny ears in… A simple yet effective option for any Easter hat parade.

3. Simple Rabbit Easter Hat

If you love simple, grab some felt from a craft store & draw out some shapes to make any hat look like a rabbit! Love how cute this one is!

4. Paper Plate Rabbit Ears

Ok, this is for all the last minute mums who totally forgot that the Easter hat parade was on! All you’ll need is a paper plate, scissors & a pink texta to make this paper plate hat.

5. Rabbit Hair Bun

Not really an Easter hat but a cute spin on wearing something on your head (or in your hair really!), this rabbit face in a bun is a lovely idea.

6. Carrot Hat

Another easy idea if your child is happy with this idea – an orange cardboard carrot hat!

7. Spring Chicken Hat

Easter & baby chicks go hand in hand don’t they? Recreate this hatching chick easter bonnet with some felt, straw & googly eyes.

8. Chicks on a Hat

Need lots of little chicks? A trip to the $2 shop will help make a lovely hatching nest scene on your Easter hat.

9. Chicken Slippery Slide

I love this fun slippery slide Easter hat! The little chicks look like they are having a lot of fun sliding on their grass sleds!

10. Star Wars Chicken Hat

Why not! Chicks can be Jedi’s too right? Combine what your child loves in the Easter hat parade like this Star Wars-themed hat.

11. Cream Egg Easter Hat

How gorgeous is this cream egg easter hat! So cute you just want it eat it up!

12. Spring Theme Easter Hat

Not a fan of rabbits or baby chicks? Then go for the Spring theme using butterflies, lady beetles & daffodils like this one here.

13. Spring Garden Paper Hat

I love this Spring garden cut out paper Easter hat. Just goes to show how much you can achieve with minimal resources.

14. Easter Party Hat

Love this crazy party hat with Easter eggs shooting out of it like party streamers!

15. Frying Pan Hat

This was too funny not to include! This little boy doesn’t seem too impressed with his cracked egg frying pan Easter hat!

16. Egg Shell Hat

If you plan ahead & love to paper mache, make a cracked egg Easter hat which your child can paint & decorate like this one.

17. Angry Birds Easter Hat

If your child is an Angry birds fan, recreate this hat & they will definitely stand out at the Easter hat parade!

18. Minecraft Themed Easter Hat

Some clever parenting here using a styrofoam box to make a Minecraft themed rabbit hat!

19. Easter Egg Parade Crown

This jester-like hat would be pretty easy & fun to make and wear. Simply get hollow Easter egg shells & glue them onto a cardboard crown with extra long tips.

If you enjoyed making these Easter hats, or if you’d like some Easter craft to get the kids involved, make sure you take a look at our eggcellent Easter crafts!

School Supplies

Want to get organised this school year? You’ll love our huge range of super cute school supplies. Our name labels for school are waterproof & stay stuck all year & each pack has school labels for all of those items that kids are likely to lose… even tiny pencil labels. If you’re looking to get organised this year, we’d love to help. Check out our name labels here & get up to 65% off.

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Gotta Love These Fun Smores Recipes

Set up a Smores Bar Station for your kids’ indoor camping activity or weekend backyard party and have these super yummy and fun Smores recipes! Combine these sweet treats with some camping games and activities for a summer to remember! 

1. Cotton Candy Smores

Here’s how to make homemade Smores in the microwave more fun! Make them with cotton candy! It’s a delightful rainbow dessert!

2. Smores Pies

Pop your Smores in the oven for this quick 5-minute Smores recipe that you and the kids can make together. Say goodbye to sticky fingers! Just take a spoon to eat your Smores pies! Mmmm!

3. DIY Mini Firepit

Want to make camping Smores at home? Create the whole Smores experience with a DIY Firepit. It’s a mini campfire you can make so your kids can still roast their own marshmallows. Now that’s a camping activity that kids will enjoy!

4. Smores Popsicles

How about frozen Smores bars in a form of popsicles? It’s a great dessert idea for a summer party that kids will love. Even adults too! 

5. Smores On A Stick

This Smores recipe is one of the easiest ways to teach your kids how to make Smores without roasting. Perfect for indoor camping activity that’s fun for your kids. Plus, they’ll enjoy eating them too!

6. Smores Sundae

Doing a Smores Bar Station for an indoor party at home? This is the perfect way for guests to enjoy their marshmallow smores. Add the perfect topping of vanilla ice cream to make it a sundae! Yum!

7. Campfire Cone

Despite the name, a campfire is only an option to make this Smores in the oven recipe. Just bake or grill your peanut butter lined cone that’s filled with marshmallows, chocolate chip cookies and your favourite Smores fixings. 

8. DIY Smores Bar

Make your toasted Smores from this DIY Smores Bar for your next summer family get together. With a simple set up of Smores ingredients laid out or in jars, have all of your guests come and create their own Smores. 

9. Bucket of Smores

A fun and easy camping activity for kids is to make their own Smores. Create a Smores kit for each of your kids so they can grab their buckets of Smores and gather in the campfire or your DIY firepit.

10. Smores Basket

Camping at home? You can have campfire Smores even without the campfire! It’s just as fun and super yummy as the roasted ones! Much safer too!

11. Outdoor Mini Smores Station

Make your own perfect Smores with your DIY Smores bar for your barbeque backyard party. Prepare some fruits, dips, chocolates, biscuits and cookies for your self-serve Smores!

Looking For More Fun Snacks and Desserts for Kids?

Try these Mug Cake Recipe and Fun Healthy Snacks for your kids this summer! And if you want to teach them how to cook, check out our blog article on Easy Cooking Recipes for kids. They’ll be happy to learn how to make their own food and eat them too!

Want To Make Your Own DIY Smores Bar Station?

You’ll definitely need to be organised so you can have all the party essentials ready for an awesome Smores party! Put up a DIY Smores Menu using chalkboard stickers for your different Smores recipes that guests can try. Wrap some Smores in gift bags or mini boxes for guests to take home. Personalise them with our super cute gift labels. The best part? These are all made for you in Australia and shipped super fast! You’re going to love them!

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Can’t leave the house? Kids need some entertaining? We’ve got a MEGAAA list of crafts for kids at home. You’ll find over 100 links to some of the easiest, most fun craft ideas for kids & you’ll want to share it. It’s a game-changer!

Here are our Top 10 Faves:

1. 8 Anzac Day Craft and Food Ideas – Honour our service men and women, past and present, with these activities. 
2. Mother’s Day Activity Sheet – Show Mum or Grandma how much you love her by filling out this free printable.
3. 10 Easy Cardboard Crafts for Kids – Art that you can recycle.
4. 18 Shoebox Craft Ideas – Art you can recycle.
5. 11 Weaving Projects For Kids – Improve their fine-motor skills.
6. 17 Paper Plate Craft Ideas – Craft with the stuff you have at home.
7. 17 School Holiday Boredom Busters – Never hear the words “I’m bored” ever again.
8. 22 Egg-cellent Egg Carton Crafts – Cut, Paint, colour, stick… plenty of skills to learn here.
9. 15 Kid-Friendly Origami Crafts – Improve their comprehension & fine-motor skills here.
10. 14 Pokemon Craft & Fun Activities – Craft ideas for kids who are in training to become the next Pokemon Master.

Don’t stop now! Scroll down for our list of 100+ crafts for kids

Crafts For Kids Mega List 

Check out the craft ideas for kids list below & prepare to unleash your kids’ inner artist!

Crafts For Kids – Toddler +

1. Sensory shaker bottle  – Super easy & they’ll play with it for hours.

2. Stained glass window – Let that light shine through.

3. Toddler Dot to Dot – Heaps of free dot-to-dot printables.

4. Toddler Collage – A great activity for toddlers to express themselves through art.

5. Do some sticker art projects – What little one doesn’t love stickers!

6. Free Play Art – Sensory rich art activities.

7. Colour Mixing in a Bag – Hands on approach to learning about colours.

8. DIY shapes book – Great for developing fine motor skills.

9. Make Salt Dough – Fun for the little ones, and a great gift for the grandparents.

10. Finger Paint – Messy, but so much fun! 

11. Handprint Art – Combine learning & fun by making alphabet art.

12. Make a Sensory Bag – Sensory play with food from your cupboards. 

13. Scribble in the Bathtub – Open ended play at bath time. 

14. Make a batch of play doh – So easy, and can be played with again and again. 

15. Do a chalk photo shoot – Cute mementos for family and friends. 

16. Celery Stamp – Perfect for making cards or wrapping paper. 

17. Tandem drawing – Spend some quality time creating together. 

18. Sticky Paper Collage – If your toddler enjoyed making the stained glass window, they’ll love this! 

19. Paint Leaves – Collect leaves from your garden or neighbourhood. 

Crafts For Kids – Kindy + 

20. Shaving Cream Paint – Two ingredients outdoor painting fun.

21. Bark Painting – Collect some bark on your walk to use it as a canvas. 

22. Leaf Threading – A lovely way to engage with nature. 

23. Pasta Jewellery – Wearable art that helps develop fine motor skills. 

24. 3D Paper Rainbows – Colourful 3D art.

25. Family Portrait Painting – Beautiful keepsake to frame.

26. Paper Chains – Decorations for any occasion!

27. Magic Milk Experiment – Science and art in one. 

28. Pressing Flowers – Head out in the sun and pick some flowers. 

29. Stick Gnome Painting – Perfect for planter pots. 

30. Michelangelo drawing under the table – Create your own Sistine Chapel inspired artwork. 

31. Frozen Dinosaur Eggs – Channel your inner archaeologist. 

32. Paper Cut-out Family – 

33. Paper Plate Whale – See if you can make a whole pod.

34. Can you draw or paint with your feet? – paint + feet = a whole lot of fun. 

35. Hand Tracing – Try different hand poses to create different animals. 

36. Tape Resist Paintings – Abstract art, cityscapes, trees – limited only by your imagination. 

37. Window Painting – Perfect for rainy days. 

38. Button Stampers – Makes for unique gift wrap or cards. 

39. Plant Markers for Gardens – For the washi tape fans. 

40. Autumn Wreath – Theme your craft to the season. 

41. DIY Veggie stamps – An exception to the ‘don’t play with your food’ rule. 

42. Glitter Glue Snowflakes – Fans of Frozen will love this! 

43. Salad Spinner Art – Add glitter paint for something extra special. 

44. Marble Painting – Fun and easy, the kids will want to do this one over and over again. 

45. Container Painting – Burn some energy while creating a masterpiece. 

46. String Art – Art & geometry in one. 

47. DIY Heart Stamp – Super cute for Valentine’s Day. 

48. Recyclable Art – Budget-friendly crafts. 

49. Magnet Painting – The perfect blend of art and science. 

50. Fake Snow – Make a beautiful wintery scene, or paint your own Olaf.  

51. Paper Airplanes – Whose will fly the furthest?

52. Suncatchers – Paint your room with colourful light.

53. Sponge Stamps – Painting without too much mess.

54. Cereal Box Aquarium – Pretend field trip anyone?

55. Recycled Crayons – Never throw away your crayons again.

56. Button Art – All the buttons for your cute little buttons.

57. Tissue Box Monsters – Monsters you can recycle later.

58. Toilet Paper Roll Crafts – Super cute & mega easy.

59. Chalk Ice – Get outside & chalk the place up.

60. Scrape Painting – A totally different way to look at painting.

61. Dot Markers Art – Bingo markers have never looked so fun.

62. 3D Art – Sculpted art for kids.

63. Make Stepping Stones – Hop skip & jump with these.

64. Cardboard Box Town – Build your own town & recycle it later.

65. Marble Run – Where the marble goes, nobody knows.

66. Popsicle Stick Catapult – It’s physics & it’s fun.

67. Air Dry Clay Projects  – No-bake clay? Yes, please!

68. Make Greeting Cards – Make them ahead of time & store them for later.

69. Paint Pet Rocks – Pets you can collect.

70. Make a Bird Feeder – Watch your little visitors as they come to eat.

71. Paper Bag Puppets – No-fuss puppets that you can recycle.

72. Watercolour Painting – A favourite because it’s washable.

73. Mason Jar Crafts – Super cute crafts in glass.

74. Aluminium Foil Crafts – From your pantry to the art gallery.

75. Paper Weaving – Build their dexterity with these.

76. Make Wind Chimes – Experiment with sounds & the wind.

Crafts For Kids – Primary +

77. Origami Animals – These are so so cute!

78. God’s Eye Wool Weaving – Perfect for Christmas decorations too!

79. DIY Bubble Blower – You know they’re going to love this.

80. Decorate Paper Crowns – Because we’re all royalty.

81. Paper Snowflakes –  Winter has never looked so beautiful.

82. Pom Poms – Raid Nan’s wool stash for these.

83. Toy Clothing – No-sew Barbie clothes. Yes please!

84. Rainbow Paper– Nail polish, paper & water… That’s it!

85. Infinite Paper Flipper – It’s flippin’ excellent.

86. Melting Crayon Craft– Turn those crayons into a masterpiece.

87. Clone Trooper Paper Dolls – For all of the little storm troopers out there.

88. Cityscape Sponge Art– Paint a whole city in just a few taps of the sponge.

89. Rainbow Prism – Making rainbows at home with just a few items.

90. Mini Beaded Bookmarks – Perfect for their hand-eye coordination.

91. Single Colour Art – Only one paint colour at home? No problem!

92. Shaving Cream Marbled Paper – Now this is easy!

93. Seashell Crafts – Use those seashells you collected on holidays.

94. Homemade Bookmarks – Encourage their reading with a handmade bookmark.

95. Homemade Wrapping Paper – Wrap your gifts in art. 

96. Fabric Pen T-shirts – Get your kids designing their own tees.

97. Spirolaterals Math Art – It’s maths, but it looks so good!

98. Scratch Art – Perfect for kids who like some sensory play.

99. Paper Boats – Whose will float the longest?

100. About Me Scrapbook – It’s all about them & their memories. 

101. Thankful Jar – A reminder of the things they’re grateful for.

102. Cardboard Castle – Fit for little kings & queens.

103. Puffy Sidewalk Paint – Get some sun while you make your art.

104. Kids Embroidery – This idea is so cute & super easy!

105. Mosaic Art – This tile art is super eye-catching.

106. Decorate Shoes – For the fashion designers of the world.

107. Knitting for Kids –  Heaps of knitting activities for all levels.

108. Make Temporary Tattoos –  Temporary tattoos at home? Cool!

109. Superhero Mask Craft  – Unleash your inner super hero here.

110. Tooth Fairy Case – Impress your tooth fairy each visit. 

111. Jar Lanterns – Lights out! These are gorgeous.

112. Natural Dye Experiment – It’s chemistry without chemicals.

113. Learn to Draw – Step by step help drawing all of your favourite things.

114. Draw a Self Portrait – The perfect activity to show them how beautiful they are.

115. Inspirational Quote Poster – Give them the opportunity to say something inspiring. 

116. Sharpie Tie Dye – This is so much fun & it’s easy.

117. Bottle Rocket – Reach for the stars!

118. Make Friendship Bracelets – Best friends forever.

119. DIY Bath Bombs – They’ll bathe for hours in these.

120. Design your own Headbands – Fashion parade anyone?

121. Butcher Paper Body Tracing – Life-size models of themselves. This is fun!

Kids Educational Resources

Don’t forget to check out our incredible educational range that will be printed especially for you and delivered straight to your door. We’re the one-stop shop for personalised school labels, & waterproof name stickers.

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Looking for an Easter Basket Printable for your class? Our Easter activities for kids are super fun. Download these super cute free Easter craft ideas, which include an Easter basket printable and an A4 sheet of Easter pictures to colour. If you’re looking for more Easter activities to keep the little ones busy, make sure you check out our free Easter Word Hunt!

Checkout Your Free Easter Printables and Easter Craft Activities Below:

Easter Egg Colouring In Printable

As far as Easter activity ideas go, this one is super easy. Put together some bunny treats and a drink, and then write a nice message. The Easter Bunny will be so grateful!

Download your free Easter pictures to colour below.

Easter Basket Printable

We’ve got the best Easter basket template to keep your kids busy. Our free printable Easter baskets will have them ready for their Easter Egg Hunt in no time. Easy to follow instructions, all you’ll need is paper, glue and some colouring pencils.

If you’d like to download our Easter basket printable, scroll to the bottom of this page and hit download. We know your kids are going to love it!

DIY Easter Gift Ideas

Looking for Easter gift ideas? Check out our huge range of Easter gift labels and Easter Egg Hunt products. Add them to any Easter gift including eggs, buckets, gift bags and more!

Happy Easter from the team here at Bright Star Kids!

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Christmas Santa Colouring Free Printable

Got a zillion last-minute holiday errands? Scroll down below to download this cute Christmas Santa Colouring to keep the kids busy! It’s every busy mum’s favourite Christmas hack. 

Print out heaps for all the little kids in the family. It’s such a fun activity for them and an effective distraction, too! Now you can go about planning out the perfect Christmas dinner. 

Want More Free Christmas Printables?

We’ve also got a free Christmas Colouring In Card you can download for your kids. Get them busy with our Christmas Activity Book filled with fun colouring activities!

Looking for Personalised Christmas Gift Packaging For All Your Santa Gifts?

Check out our Glitter Jumbo Santa Sacks that you can personalise with a monogram or fun Christmas design. Match them with our Glitter Jumbo Christmas Stockings and have one for each member of the family! Fill them up to the brim to get them excited for Christmas. The best part? These are all made in Australia and shipped super fast! You’re going to love them! 

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Nothing is more exciting than the arrival of a new member of the family, so here is our list of adorable keepsake ideas and creative ways to document and celebrate the milestones of your little one’s first year of life!

1. Monthly Flower Photoshoot

What an amazing way to share pictures of your little one with these beautiful monthly flower photoshoots! 

 2. Picture Frame Boxes

Have a go at making one of these beautiful keepsake picture frames to hang proudly on your wall!

3. Milestone Height Chart 

Watch and track your little one as they grow taller and taller with this gorgeous personalised milestone height chart. 

Fill in all the personal details as your little one grows and develops! 

4. Hands and Feet

Frame your baby’s adorable hand and footprints to proudly hang up. They will never be this little again!

5. Favourite Toys Baby Photoshoot

Have a cute playtime photoshoot with your little one’s favourite toys! 

6. Birth Announcement Cushions 

Display your newborn baby’s weight, birth date, height and time of birth with these adorable personalised birth announcement cushion covers!

7. Re-writable Chalkboard Charts

Keep track of your baby’s progress with this simple re-writable chalkboard chart!

Take pictures with this next to your little one and watch them grow.

8. Baby Clothes Quilt

Make a beautiful keepsake patchwork quilt out of your baby’s outgrown clothing material.

9. Birth Announcement Photo Shoot

These birth announcement photoshoots are such cute and creative way to let everyone know all the details of your new family members arrival.

10. Milestone cards 

Celebrate your baby’s growth and major moments with these beautiful personalised milestone cards. 

We hope you’ve been inspired by our list of creative ways to capture your baby’s milestones. 

Feel free to share any cute pictures with us if you try out one of these great ideas! 

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Are your kids obsessed with Spongebob too? Your Bikini Bottom loving little ones will have a ball making these fun Spongebob Squarepants craft activities that we’ve discovered!

1. Pine-Cone Spongebob Home 

Your kids will find it easy to make this cool pine-cone Spongebob house. All you need is glue, a pine-cone, coloured markers and coloured paper.

 2. Plankton Recycled Toilet Paper Rolls

Kids will love playing around with using recycled toilet paper rolls and pipe cleaners to create these plankton figurines!

3. Cut Out Spongebob Box Craft

Check out this super easy cut-out Spongebob papercraft! To put it together you only need scissors and glue.

4. Character Colouring in Page

This classic colouring in page has all of the main characters that your kids love from the show!

5. Painted Spongebob Rocks

How adorable are these painted Spongebob rocks?

Pick up some rocks with the kids from the backyard. Once they’re painted and detailed you can also varnish them with clear nail polish.

6. Clay Character Figures 

Sit down with the kids and have a go at making these super cute clay character figurines. This activity seems like it might be a little hard for smaller kids, so you will probably have to help with this one a little!

7. Painted Name Letters

This simple Spongebob painted name letter would also look great on your kid’s bedroom wall and they will be super proud that they helped make it!

8. Kitchen Sponge Spongebob

Get the kids to grab a sponge from the cupboard, add some googly-eyes and also some felt and help make these kitchen sponge Spongebobs! 

9. Bikini Bottom Lifesaver Door Hanger

Looking for a new bedroom door hanger? Your kids will love this Bikini Bottom lifesaver ring on their door. This activity needs thick red and white card board, a blue marker and most of all your kids to help put it all together! 

10. Felt Finger Puppets

Kids love finger puppets. Let them break out the felt and have a go at making some of these adorable Spongebob and Patrick finger puppets.

We hope that you and your kids have lots of fun having a go at making these fun SpongeBob SquarePants craft activities! If you’re looking for more fun crafts to do, check out our paper plate crafts to keep the little ones occupied. 

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Easy Craft Ideas For Kids 

Stuck on craft ideas for kids?  Your kids will love making these fun paper plate crafts. If you’re looking for more craft ideas, you’re going to love our post 100+ Craft Ideas For Kids. It’s filled with easy craft activities for kids at home.

1. Desk Tidy

As far as crafts for kids go, this desk tidy has to be one of the cutest!

2. Snake

Using paint on bubble wrap gives this snake a lovely texture. It’s one of many awesome sensory craft ideas for kids.

3. Under the Sea

Collect some shells and sand to create your own underwater or aquarium scene.

4. Mice

How sweet is this family of mice! This is a super easy idea for when you want to schedule in some crafts for kids at home.

5. Rainbow

Looking for some colourful craft activities for kids? Little ones love making this rainbow with paper plate cloud. It’s nice & easy too.

6. Watermelon Fan

Perfect for hot summers, this watermelon fan can cool you down and also swat flies!

7. Bear Mask

Paper plates are great for making heaps of different masks like this bear mask.

8. Magnet Maze

More intricate to make, this diy maze will entertain your kids and teach them hand-eye co-ordination as they try to navigate their way around the maze.

9. Koala

What other animals besides this koala can you make using different sized paper plates? Make a whole continent of animals with this crafts for kids idea!

10. Fish

For those who can’t keep fish alive, you can bring one to life and make your own fish to keep!

11. Flower Wreath

By using the rim of the plate and cutting out the centre, you can create some lovely wreaths for different occasions. This flower wreath uses stamped flowers, glued with buttons.

12. Balloon Car

Kids will love making their own paper plate car that moves as the balloon lets out the air! What a fun little science experiment.

13. Easter Hat

A great last minute idea for times like the Easter Hat Parade!  

14. Lion Mask

Notice the way the ears, nose and whiskers of this lion mask are cut out to make this a 3D mask – pretty cool!

15. Dragon

Do you have a little dragon lover in the house? Use the template from this diy and customise your own flying dragon.

16. Butterfly

Using a paddle pop stick and some pipe cleaners, kids will love coming up with their own unique butterfly.

17. Balloon Tennis

For some active indoor fun, blow up a balloon and make some paper plate tennis racquets for the kids to have hit.

Loved these craft ideas? You’ve got to look at our Craft Activities Mega List! It has over 100 kids craft activities that are easy to do & include items you probably already have at home. It’s awesome. You can share it with your friends too.

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