Kid Craft Recipes

The kid craft recipes you'll find on this page are for both edible and non-edible crafts. If you have kid craft recipes you don't see below, be sure to send it to us and we'll add it as soon as possible.

Edible Craft Recipes & Ideas

Edible Peanut Butter Playdough
18 oz. peanut butter
6 tbsp. honey
Nonfat dry milk

Mix ingredients with enough nonfat dry milk to form into a workable dough. Can be decorated with raisins and then eaten!

Chocolate Finger Paint
1 (4 oz.) pkg. instant chocolate pudding & pie filling
2 c. cold milk

Put pudding mix and milk in a medium size bowl. Beat with electric mixer at low speed for two minutes. Let set until it thickens. Finger paint on white construction paper and let dry for several hours. Now it's ready to hang up.

Edible Necklace
By Anita Shelton
http://www.blessedenterprises.org

Need:
Licorice that you pull strings off
Fruit Loops

String Fruit Loops onto licorice. This helps with eye-hand coordination, plus pincher grip. Then tie it together for necklace, and/or eat.

Painted Toast
White bread
Milk
Food colors
Small clean brushes
Paper cups
Toaster

Divide small amounts of milk into paper cups and add a different color to each. Using the clean brushes. Let the children paint on their bread. Teach them to paint gently so they don't tear the bread. Do not let them get the bread too wet. Let them drop into toaster and see what happens when it pops up!

Candy Filled Tubes
by Cynthia Powell
http://www.chicksandcubs.com

Use toilet paper roll cores to make candy gifts for school parties. Cut and wrap tissue paper or wraping paper around the toilet paper roll. Use stickers to decorate it even more. Wrap plastic wrap around the tube with extra hanging from both ends. Tie one end with curly ribbon. Fill the tube with candy. Tie the other end with curly ribbon. Fun to make and great to give away.

Build a Castle
by Nancy Macdonald
www.preciousbabysite.com

Take a box of crackers and cookies, items in the kitchen such as marshmallows, raisins, chocolate chips. Use wax paper about a foot in half in front of each child. Have a plastic glove for each child. Two different tubs of icing sugar. One to build the castle and another colour for decorating. The one morning you build the castle and the second day you decorate it , using tubes of cake decorations. I did this one year at a birthday party for my girls.

Non Edible Craft Recipes

The following kid craft recipes are not to be eatten, but make for hours of fun or great gifts. You can add on to these kid craft recipes by making nice boxes, bags, or wrapping paper to give the gifts.

Funny Putty
1/4 c. Elmer's glue
2 tsp. Sta-Flo liquid starch

Combine glue and starch; mix well and allow to dry slightly until workable. Store in airtight containers.

Soap Paint
1 c. powdered detergent
4 tbsp. liquid starch
1 tbsp. powdered Tempra

Beat detergent and starch with mixer until peaks form. Add Tempra and mix well. Apply with hands, brushes or sticks.

No-Cook Playdough
1 c. flour
1/2 c. salt
2 tbsp. oil
1 tsp. alum

Add small amount of water until consistency of bread dough, no more water than 1/2 cup.

Homemade Finger Paint
1 tbsp. unflavored gelatin (1 env.)
Cold water
1/2 c. cornstarch
4 tbsp. dishwashing liquid
Food coloring

Stir gelatin into 1/3 cup cold water. Set aside. In a saucepan stir cornstarch into 2 1/2 cups cold water until dissolve. Bring to a simmer and stir until fully thickened. Remove from heat and blend in gelatin mixture. Add dishwashing liquid. Cool and add food coloring as desired. Store in Tupperware at room temperature.

Clay Jewelry Mix
3/4 c. flour
1/2 c. cornstarch
1/2 c. salt
Warm water

Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. Gradually add warm water until mixture can be kneaded into a stiff dough. To reduce stickiness, dust with flour. Children can roll into balls for beads. Pierce each with a toothpick for hole to thread onto string. Air dry and paint. These kid craft recipes make for nice gifts as well for nice jewelry for the kids.

Bubble Recipe
2 c. Dawn dishwashing detergent
6 c. water
Almost 1 c. Karo light corn syrup

Combine, shake, let settle 4 hours. Store covered in refrigerator to extend suds shelf life. Allow to warm before using. Costs about $1.50 per gallon.

Bubble Tips: 1. If foam develops scrape off with a stiff card.
2. Keep suds clean from dirt and grass.
3. Bubbles are best on humid days.
4. Protect suds from direct sun.

Funny Face Make-Up
2 tsp. white shortening
5 tsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. white flour
4 drops glycerin
Few drops of food coloring

In a small bowl, mix shortening, cornstarch and white flour. Add four drops of glycerin. Stir to a creamy consistency. Add any food coloring that you wish. For brown makeup, add 2 1/2 teaspoons of unsweetened cocoa instead of food coloring and you're all set.

Soap Crayons
One ice cube tray
Liquid food color
2 tbsp. hot water for each crayon
1 c. soap flakes
Small bowl
Spoon

For each color, put two tablespoons of hot water and one cup of soap flakes into a bowl. Add as many drops of food color to the mixture as you wish. Stir the soap mixture until it thickens. This takes time, so be patient! Press spoonfuls of the first color of soap into the sections of the ice tray. Mix enough soap in other colors to fill the ice tray, following the above directions again. Let the soap crayons dry for one or two days. Gently bang the ice tray to loosen the crayons. Pack them in a box for gift-giving. Great for birthday presents or holidays.

Bath Salts
1 c. Epsom salts
Measuring cup
2 jars with lids
2 colored of liquid food color
1 pretty 8 oz. jar
A few drops of your favorite perfume
1/2 yard of ribbon, 1/2" to 1" wide

To make these good smelling bath salts, first measure 1/2 cup of Epsom salt into each jar with a lid. Add 15 drops of food color to each jar, one color per jar and put on the lids. Shake the jars until the Epsom salts are dyed evenly. If you want your colors to be darker, add more food color and shake again. Take off the lids and let the salts dry overnight. Now, make sure your pretty jar is all clean and dry. Then pour the dyed bath salts into the jar, alternating colors (you may want to get colors that go together well). Add a couple of drops of perfume to the bath salts, put on the lid and tie the jar with your pretty ribbon. Now you have a really nice present from very simple kid craft recipes!

Colored Sand
3 c. masonry sand
2 tbsp. liquid tempra

Mix the ingredients and allow to dry, stirring occasionally. It will take about 24 hours to dry. For deeper colors, use more paint. If sand is not available, use salt.