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Arts & Crafts for Kids

Welcome to Nana's, where you'll find crafts that inspire creativity through artistic play and learning! Over 400 crafts (and counting) for your kids (and you!). Let us give you the ideas, so you and your kids can get to the fun part…celebrating creativity!

Trending Crafts

  • Completed Garden Suncatchers with pressed flowers made with a mason jar lid and hanging from a twig with blue ribbon.
    DIY Garden Suncatcher Wind Chime a Summer Kids Craft
  • Hand squeezing the a completed batch of light blue fluffy slime.
    How to Make the Best Fluffy Slime Recipe for Kids
  • A sunset picture created with sharpies and alcohol on canvas, surrounded by bright sharpie markers..
    Cool Sharpie and Alcohol Painting on Canvas

Find the perfect craft...

Newest Crafts

  • Red white and blue melted beads in the shape of a star sitting on a circular piece of wood next to a bowl of blue beads.
    DIY 4th of July Melted Beads Craft
  • A salt shaker full of button flowers with a ribbon tied around it against a blue background.
    Cute DIY Button Flowers in a Salt Shaker
  • Person holding a completed mini hot air balloon craft against a blue background.
    Fun Flying Miniature Hot Air Balloon Craft
  • A police car, tractor and yellow Beetle toy cars sitting on a Father's Day T-Shirt painted with a dirt road leading to various buildings.
    DIY Father’s Day T-shirt Map and Massage!

This Week's Featured Project...

  • Completed colorful tissue paper flowers, a purple and pink one resting on a glass cake stand with others underneath.
    How to Make Easy DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers (2 Ways!)

Painting Ideas

Grab some paint and let's have some fun! Explore painting ideas for kids of all ages.

  • Completed basic art using wax crayons. Picture is of a floral arrangement on a blue background.
    How to Make Paper Batik Art with Wax Crayons
  • A bowl of three painted wooden Easter eggs in Easter basket grass resting on a pastel plaid cloth.
    Painting Wooden Easter Eggs Craft
  • Hand painting finishing touches on completed abstract heart painting with paint supplies near by.
    DIY Easy Abstract Heart Painting
  • Person painting final details on a cute winter cardinal handprint painting of a cardinal handprint sitting on a snowy branch.
    Cute Winter Cardinal Handprint Craft for Kids

See more painting ideas →

Paper Crafts

Everyone has some paper lying around the house! Bring these fun ideas to life with minimal items needed.

  • Person showing a Father's Day card with red flowers and a windmill against a sunset with type saying "Happy Father's Day"
    A Kind Word Magazine Collage Card for Father’s Day
  • Three colorfully colored straw rockets.
    3 Cool Ways to Make Straw Rockets (Free Straw Rocket Template)
  • Four origami butterflies in pastel shades of blue, yellow, orange and pink.
    Easy Folded Origami Butterfly for Kids
  • A person coloring in flowers pink on the Arbor Day coloring page which is in a clip board resting on a plaid placemat surrounded by colored pencils.
    Printable Tree Coloring Page for Arbor Day

See more paper crafts→

Sewing Projects

Learning to sew and teaching others to sew is one of my favorite things to do! Check out these easy step-by-step tutorial for all skill levels and interests.

  • Two stitched Valentines Day cards made from pink, white and green paper and multi colored string.
    How to Stitch Valentines Cards for Kids
  • A blue healer Halloween costume made from felt and a blue terrycloth towel.
    Easy DIY Costume Animals for Halloween (Free Patterns)
  • A stack of baby burp cloths made from brightly colored felt fabric prints.
    Easy Homemade Fabric Baby Burp Cloths (Free Sewing Pattern)
  • Cushion made from reusable shopping bag with scenes of London on it sitting on a bench.
    DIY Sit-Upon Cushion from a Reusable Shopping Bag

See more Sewing crafts →

About Shelly (Nana)!

Hello there! I'm Shelly (Nana), an artist, previously homeschooling mother of 3, and now proud grandma (Nana) of 6. I love sharing artistically inspiring, hands-on crafts for kids of all ages. Let's go have some fun!

Learn more about me →

Fourth of July Crafts & Activities

Are you looking for some fun and easy July 4th crafts ideas for kids? Celebrate the holiday with these fun red white and blue crafts, art projects, and activities!

  • Completed white chocolate dipped strawberries with blue, red and silver sprinkles sitting on a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
    Easy 4th of July White Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
  • Close up view of completed water color resist with watercolors, brushes and pencils laying to the right.
    Watercolor Resist with Crayons for July 4th
  • Finished July coloring page on clipboard with two DIY crabs and colored pencils near by.
    Beach Loving July Coloring Page
  • Finished 4th of July painted t-shirt rests on red towel with two small American flags.
    DIY 4th of July Shirts with Sponged Rocket Design
  • Red white and blue fruit parfaits with blueberries, strawberries, and whipped cream.
    Red White & Blue Fruit Parfait

See more July 4th Crafts →

Summer Crafts & Activities

Let's celebrate the end of school season and start of pool season with crafts that feature fun in the sun, being outdoors, and lots of activity! Check out these great summer-themed DIY Craft and Activity ideas for kids from around the blog!

  • A person holding a tp seed starter with a little sprout growing out of it with other tp tubes and sprouts in the back ground.
    How to Start Seeds Indoors in TP Tubes!
  • Completed decoupage flower pots with fabric filled with spring flowers and greenery.
    How to Decoupage Flower Pots with Fabric (Mother’s Day Gift)
  • Completed Labor Day coloring page of a tool belt filled with tools and a pocked with hammer and handkerchief clipped into a clip board resting on a red placemat.
    Free Printable Labor Day Coloring Page 
  • A finished whimsical DIY wind chime hanging outdoors.
    Whimsical Repurposed DIY Wind Chimes for Kids
  • Four different flavored popsicles on colorful popsicle handles resting on a platter of fruit.
    4 Ways to Make Homemade Fruit Popsicles for Summer

See more Summer crafts →

Free Coloring Pages

Looking for some fun coloring pages for kids? Check out these free pages, hand drawn with love from Nana! You'll find coloring fun for every holiday, season, and more. Simply download, print, and enjoy!

  • A large shamrock colored green and a bunch of shamrocks in the corner of the page colored in green with pink flowers near by.
    How to Draw a Shamrock for St Patrick's Day
  • Completed Christmas tree coloring page resting on a green and red placemat with white decorative bells near by. Square image.
    A Christmas Tree Coloring Page (Free Printable for Kids)!
  • Person coloring "Happy Thanksgiving" orange on Thanksgiving coloring page for kids.
    Thanksgiving Coloring Page for Kids (Free Printable)
  • Completed Father's Day Coloring Page with six different shirts or jackets a dad may wear with the words "Dressed for Success as the BEST!" underneath.
    Free Printable Father’s Day Coloring Page For Kids
  • Completed Memorial Day Coloring Page on clip board. Coloring page has three headstones, flowers and bird and Memorial Day banner.
    Memorial Day Coloring Page (Free Printable For You!)

See more Free Coloring Pages →

Hello there! I'm Shelly (Nana), an artist, previously homeschooling mother of 3, and now proud grandma (Nana) of 6. I love sharing artistically inspiring, hands-on crafts for kids of all ages. Let's go have some fun!

More about me →

Popular Crafts

  • Hand squeezing the a completed batch of light blue fluffy slime.
    How to Make the Best Fluffy Slime Recipe for Kids
  • Completed colorful tissue paper flowers, a purple and pink one resting on a glass cake stand with others underneath.
    How to Make Easy DIY Giant Tissue Paper Flowers (2 Ways!)
  • Overhead views of two different sprouts growing in glass containers.
    How to Grow a Tree from a Pine Cone
  • A sunset picture created with sharpies and alcohol on canvas, surrounded by bright sharpie markers..
    Cool Sharpie and Alcohol Painting on Canvas

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