Here are some great Art and Craft ideas you can do this weekend!
- Make puppets
- Make a “Celebrations book.”
- Make homemade musical instruments Here is a site that shows you how to make homemade instruments. Here is another good one.
- Mix cornstarch and water
- Make a game (tic-tac-toe, checkers, chess set)
- Make a God’s Eye
- Make a colored “sand” sculpture
- Paint family portraits
- Make flags from around the world out of scrap paper or invent one of your own
- Make paper snowflakes
- Learn some origami (check out the Japanese tradition of 1000 paper cranes)
- Purchase a knitting loom and make a scarf
- Make a paper chain and see how long you can get it
- Make a tooth fairy pillow by hand
- Monogram your socks
- Make stationary with stamps
- Create a family playlist on Spotify
- Make paper dolls
- Make a putt putt boat and sail it in your bathtub (you’ll need blue tack, a couple straws, a soda can, a cardboard milk carton, a tea candle and something to light the tea candle)
- Make pictures to give to nursing home residents or elderly neighbors (you can even mail them; everyone loves getting mail)
- Make necklaces and bracelets using beads or even pasta
- Build a model car, plane, boat or building
- Make accessories for your pets (kerchiefs, capes, bows)
- Make pet toys
- Make tissue paper flowers
- Sew buttons onto scrap fabric
- Make paper beads
- Paper mache a balloon
- Write poems, limericks, and haiku
- Write a song
- Create your own “Dr. Seuss” book
- Make and decorate paper crowns
- Print out your photos and make a scrapbook
- Learn Calligraphy
- Teach your kids cursive
- Make your own playdough
- Fortune cookies are difficult to make but creating a Fortune Jar is a snap
- Make a map to your favorite place
- Make a comic strip or book
- Make your own slime
- Make an old-fashioned address book
- Decorate a pair of plain white sneakers or old shirt
- Make a simple bird feeder
- Make a dreamcatcher
- Make a family time capsule to open at a future date
- Paint your toenails or fingernails with wacky designs
- Make your own coin or piggy bank
- Make a “selfie” background with an old tablecloth or sheet, and markers or paint
- Create your own picture frame for the selfie
- Download an animation app for your phone or tablet and do stop motion animations (There are many simple free and low cost ones!)
- Tie dye a pillow case
- Create an old fashioned sampler
- Make an arm-knitted scarf
- Build a terrarium
- Paint a rock (from “Kindness Rocks”)
- Make a pet rock
- Make a $10 DIY compost bin and use the compost later in your garden
- Make fleece monsters
