How To Keep Children Creative and Busy During the Holidays

Fun, age-appropriate ideas to engage and inspire kids throughout the holiday season.

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Introduction

The holiday season is a wonderful opportunity for families to bond and create lasting memories. However, with children at home, keeping them entertained and engaged can be a challenge. Instead of resorting to endless screen time, why not explore creative activities that cater to their age and developmental stage?

In this blog, we’ll explore exciting ways to keep children busy, spark their imagination, and encourage creativity during the holidays—all while being mindful of their age-specific needs. Plus, we’ll highlight how objects around the home teamed with materials from Crafties can make these activities even more enjoyable and stress-free.

Please let the children have fun! Remember to cover tabletops and floor with washable clear Plastic sheets available from Crafties or simply use old magazines and newspapers. Waterproof aprons will protect the clothing of children when paints are used.

Preparing a schedule of activities in advance helps

For Toddlers (Ages 2-4): Simple and Sensory Fun

Finger Painting: Use washable finger paints from Crafties, along with large sheets of recycled paper or cardboard. These are safe for toddlers and easy to clean up. Wall posters can be made from their hand prints.

Sensory Bins: Crafties stocks colorful craft beads, foam shapes, and small trinkets that can be used to create engaging sensory bins.

Holiday-Themed Crafts: Print out and pre-cut paper shapes, such as snowflakes or stars, and let toddlers decorate them with stickers, glitter glue, and pom-poms available at Crafties.

Scribbling on paper with colour pencils can be fun. 

For Preschoolers (Ages 5-7): Crafting and Imagination

DIY Holiday Cards: Crafties offers Plain cards, decorative stickers, markers, and rubber stamps perfect for creating holiday cards.

Recycled Art Projects: Use pipe cleaners, googly eyes, and craft foam from Crafties to turn old cereal boxes or milk cartons into fun characters or animals. Better still make them into decorated boxes

Storytelling Sessions: Crafties has blank journals and colored pencils that preschoolers can use to draw and write their own mini storybooks.

For School-Age Children (Ages 8-12): Skill-Building Activities

Jewelry Making: Introduce kids to beginner-friendly jewelry-making kits from Crafties, which include Memory Wire Bracelet kits, Mesh Ring  Kits beads vibrant colors, clasps, elastic, Monofilament yarn earwires and other findings. Bead weaving techniques can be used for different things like Bags, Hair ornaments etc. 

Upcycling Challenges: Use materials such as felt sheets, hot glue guns, and sequins to turn old packaging into decorative pieces or functional items. Paint bottles and jars to make vases and pretty containers.

Utilize their skills: Can they Crochet? A project should be planned which has to be adhered to. It could be Tapestry, Latch Hook Rug, Loom knitting etc Ensure they have yarn and crochet or knitting pins available at Crafties and Schedule time for these activities. Remember we teach Craft Skills during Easter and during the Summer Holidays at Crafties

Have activities planned out ahead to forestall boredom.

For Teenagers (Ages 13+): Independent and Challenging Projects

DIY Décor Projects: Crafties has a wide range of craft materials, like calabashes, metallic paints, and embellishments that teens can use to create unique home decorations.

Digital Creativity: Pair sketch pads and watercolor pencils from Crafties with digital tools to help teens plan designs before going digital.

Volunteer Work: Crafties crafting supplies, such as yarn in a  wide assortment of colours  are perfect for creating items like scarves or blankets to donate. There are children in Motherless Babies Homes and the elderly who will benefit from crochet and knitted items

Conclusion

The holidays provide a golden opportunity to nurture creativity and family connections. By tailoring activities to your child’s age and using high-quality, affordable materials from Crafties, you can make these activities even more enjoyable and stress-free.

Family quizzes and Games like Scrabble, Ludo and Monopoly to mention a few,  would enhance family connections. Activities in nature such as gardening can be very educative.

Takeaway: The best part? These activities don’t just keep kids busy—they help foster creativity, problem-solving, and family bonding.

Explore more craft supplies at www.craftieshobbycraft.com to make this holiday season one to remember. Don’t forget to share your holiday creations with us—we’d love to feature them on our social media pages!

Mrs Oluseyi Abdullahi