Easy Crafts Ideas For Kids School Holiday Fun!

How to make a rainbow wand

Make your little ones’ wishes come true with this craft to make their own magical rainbow wands. Just add a sprinkle of glitter to get the magic working.

Complete your kid’s wizard or fairy dressup games with this enchanting rainbow wand. It’s easy to make, so get the little ones involved in this craft project that requires only some card, rainbow ribbons, glue and a stick or paper straw. What you’ll need:

• Glitter card

• Pencil

• Scissors

• Glue

• Rainbow ribbons

• Dowel stick or paper straw

• Pegs

Heres how to make your rainbow wand:

1. Begin by drawing two star shapes on the reverse of the glitter card and cut out. If you’re struggling to draw the star shape, draw around a star cookie cutter or print out a star shape from Google images as a template. parents frst to make sure there’s no risk of getting splinters) or a paper

How to make rainbow decorations

straw to the middle the star cutout and on top of the ribbon.

2. Cut the rainbow ribbon into 30 cm lengths. For our rainbow wands, we’ve uses ribbon in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple colours. But you can use any ribbon colours that you have in your craft stash. If you don’t have ribbon, try creating your rainbow wand with yarn or thin strips of tissue paper.

3. Glue the ribbon pieces onto the reverse of one of the star cutouts. Glue a 30cm piece of wooden dowel (this should be sanded by

4. Glue the other star onto the back of the rainbow wand and hold in place with pegs until completely dry.

Get your kids involved with making their own rainbow decorations this weekend with this paper craft project. Made with some strips of rainbow-coloured paper and glue, this is a great project to get the kids involved with some crafting. If you’re worried about your little ones using scissors, you can always cut the strips to the correct sizes beforehand.

You will need:

• Rainbow coloured paper or card

• Scissors

• Pritt stick or PVA glue

• Brightly coloured ribbon

• Pegs How to make rainbow decorations:

1. Begin by cutting the coloured paper into 3cm wide strips. To make a rainbow decoration like ours, you’ll need two strips in each of the following colours: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange and red paper strips. But you can mix and match different colours together depending on what you have at home.

2. Now you need to cut the rainbow of paper strips into varying lengths. If you want to have purple on the outside, that should be the longest strip and every colour after that needs to be at least an 2cm shorter than the last.

For example, our purple strips measure 30cm, then the blue strips measure 27cm, the green strips measure 24cm, yellows measure 21cm, oranges measure 18cm and the red strips measure 15cm.

3. On one of the shortest red strips, dab a little glue on the ends and press together to form a tear shape. Continue dabbing glue onto the ends of the orange strip and form the tear shape this time around the red one. Repeat until you’ve used up all the colours in that set of strips. Create a second teardrop with the rest of the rainbow paper strips. Between gluing you might need to use the pegs to keep the teardrop base together, or simply place the pegs on at the end whilst the glue dries.

4. Once dry, remove the pegs. Cut a length of ribbon to about 30cm and fold in half to create a loop. Apply some glue on one side of each of the teardrops and sandwich the ribbon in-between. Press the teardrop shapes together until they look like a heart and peg together to dry.

How to make Playdough

Give this quick and easy play dough recipe a go to learn how to make play dough at home and keep the kids entertained all day long! Plus, we’re got loads of fun play dough game ideas below to inspire the kids with even more play dough crafts and things to make.

1. Add the four, salt, cream oftartar and vegetable oil to the saucepan.

2. Add some food colouring to a cup of water, then pour into the saucepan.

3. Stir over a medium heat, until the mixture becomes a sticky, combined dough. Allow it to cool.

How to turn a paper plate into a rainbow

This kid-friendly rainbow craft is one of the easiest to make, all you need is a paper plate, yellow paint and allow to dry completely. Once dry, cut the plate in half.

2. On the reverse of the yellow and orange card or paper, draw some triangles with the pencil and ruler. Cut out the triangles.

5. Once dry, remove the pegs and hang up around your home or in your window for all of your neighbours to see.

Play dough ingredients you will need

• 1 cup plain four

• 1/2 cup salt

• 2 tbsp cream of tartar

• 2 tbsp vegetable oil

• 1 cup of water

• Food colouring

• Large saucepan

• Spoon some paint and glue. With this fun paper plate rainbow craft, you and the kids can create fun rainbow hangers, with paper plates transformed into a shining sun or a happy cloud, to hang up in your child’s room or in your living room.

4. Remove the dough from the saucepan and knead into a smooth ball of play dough.

Now that you’ve made, rolled, squished or cut it, you may be wondering what else there is do with your play dough.

Add a touch of brightness to any space with our other fun rainbow crafts, like this one for making your own rainbow decorations.

You will need:

• Paper plates

• Yellow paint

• Paintbrush

• Yellow and orange paper or card

• Scissors

• Ruler

• Pencil

• Rainbow tissue paper

• Pritt stick or PVA glue

• Pink colouring pencil

• Black felt tip pen

• Ribbon

• Washi tape

Steps on how to make a plate into a rainbow.

1. Paint the reverse side of a paper plate with

3. Apply some glue to the edge of the unpainted side of the paper plate and stick the cut out triangles on, alternating between orange and yellow. Allow to dry.

6. Cut a 30cm length of ribbon and fold in half. Secure at the back of the paper sun with a small piece of washi tape or some glue. Allow to dry if you’ve used glue before hanging.

7. To create the cloud version, cut out a cloud shape from the paper plate instead. Omit the sun ray steps and continue from step 4 instead.

4. Cut the rainbow tissue paper pieces into 2cm wide strips. We’ve used red, pink, yellow, blue, dark blue and lilac for our rainbow but you can use whatever colours you have already.paper plate rainbow Glue the tissue paper strips to the bottom of the paper plate to form a rainbow cascade and allow to dry.

5. Using the black felt tip pen, draw on eyes and a mouth in the middle of the paper plate sun. With the pink colouring pencil, colour in rosy cheeks to make it look like the sun is blushing.

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