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.
New Tutorials and Pages
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Use this easy tutorial to create miniature pencils and colored pencils for any 18" doll.
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Learn how to make a no sew halter top for a new fashion doll. This no sew top can be worn two ways!
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Learn how to make a DIY doll dress for a fashion doll with no sewing involved! This is the perfect dress for shopping or going out with friends.
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With a little patience and a few supplies, a beautiful DIY ribbon hair bow can be made for any 18" doll.
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Make a fancy dress for your fashion doll by using a plastic grocery bag! Who would ever think you could make a dress from a bag?
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Create a cute, tiny pencil case for an 18 inch doll. Perfect for storing homemade pencils!
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Create an easy and pretty no-sew sleeveless top for a fashion doll. This is so simple and looks great!
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Make a cozy pair of slippers for an 18" doll. These slippers are part of a doll spa series. Make more spa items to match!
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Make a pair of DIY shoe laces with a spool knitter to dress up your sneakers. It will put a spring in your step!
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Develop fine motor skills and more through lacing crafts and threading activities. Learning disguised as fun!
Trending this Week
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Older Kids will love to make these coil baskets. Made by wrapping yarn around a cord, these budget friendly baskets use up scrap yarn.
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These 3D fabric snowflakes are wonderful fabric Christmas ornaments. This tutorial shows how to make a no-sew snowflake decoration out of fabric.
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This fun easy-to-make button thread spinner is fun, easy-to-make toy that takes only minutes to make with common household items.
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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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Learn how to make DIY friendship bracelets for beginners as well as more intricate pattern for adults. Find new and exciting friendship bracelet patterns and designs.
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This hand weaving loom tutorial shows weaving techniques for kids and beginners, using a Melissa and Doug loom.
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The best collection of free spool knitted projects, also known as French knitter projects.
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Scoubidou, also known as Boondoggle, is a craft the involves the knotting of plastic cording, or gimp, to create lanyards, bracelets, zipper pulls and more.
New Stuff
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Participation is a fun and easy way for kids to earn free books. They simply read a designated number of books – library books, books borrowed from friends or books bought at Barnes & Noble – write about their favorite part in our Reading Journal, and bring a completed Reading Journal to a Barnes & Noble bookstore July 1st and August 31st, 2023. Choose your FREE reading adventure.
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Barnes and Noble
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Here is a tutorial on making a flour and water paper mache paste by cooking, making a smoother, more durable finish for your paper mache projects.
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The Spruce Crafts
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This step-by-step tutorial is on how to make paper mache that can be used for any project you would like to make. It has a recipe for a glue mixture and also a flour mixture.
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WikiHow
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Kids can get free DIY workshops from Home Depot. Join us the first Saturday of each month between 9 am – 12 pm for free in-person Kids Workshops.
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Home Depot
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Ladybugs are a popular insect. Now, kids can create ladybug puppets with this free printable template.
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Simple Everyday Mom
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This is a project making a real paper machine wand.
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DLTK's
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This blog post explains how to make paper mache in different ways, as well as some paper mache craft ideas for kids.
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Kiddus
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Here is a simple introduction to paper mache for kids. It's easy enough for preschoolers to do but also good for older child to get creative with more complex projects.
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Mama Smiles
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This paper mache paste recipe is quick, easy and strong - just flour and water. Learn how here.
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Red Ted Art
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Don’t have glue at home and wondering how to make slime without glue? You can if you have shampoo! Learn how here.
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Fun with Mama