Kids Corner Department
Encourage your child’s creativity with crafts geared just for him or her. Our Kids’ Corner features free project ideas suitable for children of any age. Look for games and activities, as well as educational materials and craft instructions created for kids.
This is a great place to go on those rainy days to keep your child occupied in a fun and creative way!
Our online shopping center allows you to stock up on supplies for crafts meant for kids.
Recent Videos and Tutorials
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Learn how to sew a super easy and inexpensive homemade cat toy. This DIY catnip toy can be whipped up in 15 minutes and will entertain your cat for hours.
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A unique photo frame craft for kids to make for Dad or Grandpa on Father's Day, Christmas or birthday. A Father's Day Frame made with nuts and bolts.
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Recycle old jeans into a cute denim pocket purse. This pocket handbag is a simple, easy beginner sewing project.
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Building a LEGO pencil holder is super easy and fun with LEGO bricks lying around the home. Make for themselves or as a gift.
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Here's a doll rug tutorial! This pompom rug is easy to make for an American Girl doll, Barbie doll, miniature doll or stuffed animal.
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Does your kid love Legos? Does your kid have trouble holding playing cards? This is a cool Lego building idea for making a Lego playing card holder.
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There is a new variety of loop yarn, Magic Yarn. This yarn has a pattern like a star, heart or smiley face built into the yarn. Just stitch and see it appear!
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Learn to make a zipper pouch out of a snack wrapper with this free tutorial. Any cookie, candy, chips, wrappers can be used to make recycled zipper pouches.
Book and Magazine Recommendations
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Jacquie FisherBuild your way through over a dozen fantastic STEM experiments, brick by brick!
Does your young scientist love LEGOs? Then this is the book for them! Contained within these pages is a plethora of experiments and lessons to teach your child all about STEM using LEGO bricks.
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Created especially for girls age 8 and up, American Girl is an appealing, age-appropriate alternative to teen magazines. Features advice, crafts, contests, puzzles, games, giggles, and more!
Free Items of the Week
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How to make a bat puppet glove. This puppet glove can be used with the poem "Five Little Bats". Toddlers and children will love this activity.
From
Needlepointers.com
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Learn how to make a lollipop ghost for Halloween using a plastic bag. Kids will love making them and giving them to friends.
From
Needlepointers.com
New Stuff
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Package contains 450ft/137m of rexlace in thirteen colors, Two keychain rings; six lanyard hooks; one EZ Gimper. Recommended for children ages 6 and up
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This booklet has directions for many of the popular gimp projects, with suggestions for a multitude of patterns that can be made with any desired color combination.
From
Gutenberg
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How to make a square knot boondoggle.
From
BraceletBook
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Instructions with illustration for the box stitch.
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Pepperell
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Instructions with photos for the basic butterfly stitch.
From
Scoubiquide
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The quad stitch is an advance knot stitch. Learn how here.
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Scoubiguide
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The Scoubidou Tornado Stitch is also a much more advanced Scoubidou stitch.
From
Scoubiguide
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Instructions and photos for the advanced knot, the superbrick stitch.
From
Scoubiguide
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The Triangle Stitch is similar to the Square and Circle Stitches, except that you only need THREE strands of boondoggle to do this stitch.
From
BoondoggleMan.com
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To make zipper stitch, a Scoubidou stitch, you need three pieces of gimp.
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YouTube