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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Cats love catnip so make your furry friend a few catnip pillow kicker toy. Each pillow is the purrfect toy to keep your cat entertained 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 by repurposing nuts and bolts.
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Every dollhouse needs colorful rugs. Learn how to make this soft and cozy pompom dollhouse rug.
This pompom rug is easy, quick and inexpensive to make. It can be made in any size or shape for an American Girl doll, Barbie, doll, miniature doll or even a stuffed animal.
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Learn how to make a LEGO pencil holder with
LEGO you have around the house.
Kids will have fun making this easy LEGO pen and pencil holder for themself or for Dad or Mom as a Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Christmas, or birthday gift.
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Lego loving kids will have fun making a Lego pencil holder for their desk with this free tutorial.
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Does your kid love Legos? Does your kid have trouble holding cards when playing card games? This very simple Lego playing card holder is easy to build.
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Learn about this new yarn by Lion Brand, Off the Hook Magic Yarn. When you stitch with this yarn a picture magically appears. Kids will love using this yarn to make a star, heart, smiley face or peace symbol.
Click the link above to buy and learn more about this magic yarn with our tutorial.
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This is an easy sewing project where kids can make a bag from a snack wrapper.
Book and Magazine Recommendations
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Sarah DeesTurn your bucket of LEGO® bricks into fun new space expeditions—complete with epic spaceships, kooky aliens and cool vehicles!
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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!
New Stuff
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Advanced "How-To" video showing both slow and fast versions of how to do Tea Cup, Eiffel Tower, Witches Broom, Jacob's Ladder and Cat's Cradle. Excellent directions for playing Cat's Cradle game with two people.
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You Tube
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This video shows the finger movements from two different angles to create Cat's Cradle.
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Metacafe
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Comprehensive instructions for doing Cat's Cradle.
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If You Love To Read
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Teach your child to pay chess with this free online chess course - interactive chess lessons, games, puzzles and quizzes.
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Chess Kids
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Fantastic website of the ISFA. Full color pictures of yarn and string figures, along with its history. Links to the Arctic String Figure Project as well as many other sites including those with videos showing how to create the string figures, museums with string figure artifacts, and much more.
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International String Figure Association
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Instructions - pictorial and text.
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Fleeting Glimpse
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Step by step instructions for making Jacob's Ladder String Figure.
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Mom's Minivan
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Dozens of Minecraft templates to print and fold.
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Pixel Paper Craft
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Diagrams of the different types of origami folds. Print as a reference.
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Peter Budai
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Easy to follow, step by step video instructions for using yarn to create Cat's Whiskers then moving past it to Jacob's Ladder.
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YouTube