Cool Craft Idea: Make Your Own Craft Kit “Subscription”

Craft subscription boxes are a lot of fun for kids, but they can be pretty expensive, and if you already have a lot of craft supplies at home or in your classroom, you can even make your own “subscription” kits with a monthly theme for kids.

I came across this idea at More Excellent Me, and I think it was done for a single child but you could do the same thing for a family with multiple crafty kids, or even for the classroom. Having all the supplies together in a box or a bag just makes the making more fun, right?

The blog post I found includes 12 ideas for different projects, and there’s a printable that includes all the supplies and instructions for each of the project. Her ideas included:

sock snowman
Valentine’s card
puppet
flower pot
bird feeder
bug catching jar
firecracker flag craft
paper doll and fabric
decorating a notebook
monster glove
scarecrow Popsicle stick craft
snow globe

If you’re making your own kit(s) you can use whatever supplies you have on hand, or if there’s a craft you always do in the classroom that can be divided up into supplies like this, packaging it as a surprise can make it a little more fun.

Using the seasons and holidays for each month makes this even easier because you can find tons of easy craft ideas for different holidays and themes (even right here on Craft Gossip!) that use the supplies you already have.

Say you have a lot of felt and its January. You could cut out snowman shapes or just circles and give kids buttons, felt in other shapes like noses, scarves and hats and have them decorate a snowman. Take your excess buttons into February to make button bracelets or glue or sew down buttons in a heart shape.

If you’re doing this for one person instead of a classroom, think about their age, interests and skill level as you put your craft kits together. My daughter loves beading, painting and drawing and has a sort of goblin core/grunge aesthetic so I might make her a kit to paint this wooden mushroom that’s sitting on my bookshelf, gather some beads for friendship bracelets or backpack charms, that kind of thing.

Have you ever made craft kits for yourself or a kid in your life? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: More Excellent Me]

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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