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Crafts are a fantastic way to help your kids develop creativity and fine motor skills. Get the whole family together around these kid-friendly craft activities.

How to make a dancing dragon marionette

How to make a dancing dragon marionette

Break out the craft supplies and make this awesome fire-breathing dragon marionette with your kids. Then, it's time for a puppet show!

Rayna Schwartz

Homemade gift: Painted wood spoons

Homemade gift: Painted wood spoons

Warning: This DIY gift is so fun and easy to make that you'll want to give it to yourself (hey, you totally deserve it!).

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How to make a troll headband

How to make a troll headband

Trolls are back—and cooler than ever! Turn your kid into a colourful troll using a headband and neon tulle.

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Crafting with kids: "Learn to tie your shoes" box

Crafting with kids: "Learn to tie your shoes" box

Is your kid learning to tie her shoes? This shoebox craft makes practicing tying your shoes fun—and easy.

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Recycled craft: How to make a cardboard X-wing starfighter

Recycled craft: How to make a cardboard X-wing starfighter

Amy Valm

10 fun mason jar crafts

10 fun mason jar crafts

Have a few mason jars or even empty spaghetti jars lying around the house? Put them to use with these mason jar crafts.

Tina Barkley

How to make a cardboard dollhouse

How to make a cardboard dollhouse

Banish rainy day boredom with a cardboard craft. These dollhouse apartments are fun to build and decorate.

Mandy Milks

How to make a portable art easel

How to make a portable art easel

Don't throw away that cardboard box! Make a sturdy and portable art easel for your mini Monet.

Mandy Milks

How to make maracas out of water bottles

How to make maracas out of water bottles

You can't stop the music, so just shake, shake, shake. Raid the recycling bin for plastic bottles and toilet paper rolls to turn into maracas.

Alyssa Ashton

Kids craft: How to make animal ears headbands and matching tails

Kids craft: How to make animal ears headbands and matching tails

It's time to play pretend! Have your kiddos go wild and get into character with this fun animal ears and tail kids craft.

Amy Valm

Recycled craft: How to make a disco microphone

Recycled craft: How to make a disco microphone

Disco divas can sing their little hearts out with these glittery microphones. All you need is some glitter, paint and empty toilet paper rolls.

Amy Valm

12 wonderful winter crafts to wipe away cabin fever

12 wonderful winter crafts to wipe away cabin fever

Stuck inside on a snowy day? These winter crafts will entertain the kids as you wait out that blizzard.

Kevin John Siazon

8 fun and easy felt crafts for kids

8 fun and easy felt crafts for kids

A stack of felt sheets can be found in almost everyone's craft supplies. So put them to use and make pencil cases, jerseys and more!

Kevin John Siazon

How to make salt dough ornaments

How to make salt dough ornaments

If you want an ornament that’ll truly last for decades, make it out of salt dough. It's so easy to make and you can mould it in so many fun shapes.

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Christmas tree ornament template

Christmas tree ornament template

Trim your tree with this awesome geometric Christmas tree ornament

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How to make holiday crackers

How to make holiday crackers

Craft queen Tiffany Pratt shows you how to make the sweetest holiday crackers using leftover wrapping supplies...and toilet paper rolls.

Alyssa Ashton

How to make a Yoda headband

How to make a Yoda headband

Amy Valm

How to make a unicorn horn headpiece

How to make a unicorn horn headpiece

It’s time to get prancy! This easy craft is pure magic.

Amy Valm

11 shoebox crafts for kids

11 shoebox crafts for kids

Here are some cute ideas for your kids to turn a shoebox into something special.

Corinne Guirgis

4 fun cross-stitch pumpkin templates

4 fun cross-stitch pumpkin templates

Turn your jack-o'-lantern into a work of art with these boo-tiful designs.

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