ABC Easy Crafts for Kids

ABC Easy Crafts for Kids gives an A-Z guide of educational activities that will keep your kids busy on a rainy day. If you are going to entertain your children with a fun art and craft project, why not take the opportunity to teach them phonics, and to recognize the capital and small letter of the alphabet.

If you want to teach your kids the alphabet and also keep their hands busy, here's an easy list of things you can do with them. These activities are suitable for pre-schoolers.

A is for apple, aeroplane, ant, axe, antelope, anchor

Ants, Ants, Everywhere!

Craft activity : On the outline of the letter A or a, children can make finger print 'ants' all over their artwork in black or red paint (or be creative with multi-coloured ants!). You can add the 6 legs afterwards with a black marker when the paint is dry. Introduce children to ants and their physical features as insects. This encourages exploration and sensorial discovery.

Apple Printing

Arts & Craft : Children can learn more about the apple fruit and its characteristics. Slice the apple in half and dip in paint. Apple print in Red or Green. Develop math skills by teaching children to count the number of red or green apple prints on the drawing block.

B is for ball, basket, banana, bear, bell, bean, bag

Butterfly Wings

Craft project : On the shape of a butterfly, children can use paints to create symmetrical patterns on butterfly wings.

My Blue & Brown Bag

Craft activity : Teach your child to recognize the 'b' sound while they use blue and brown crepe papers to paste on a small paper bag. You can also introduce children to patterns.

C is for clock, canoe, cow, can, cone, cotton, cup, crayon, cross, clown

Corn Craft

Craft activity : Children can learn about the physical features of corn on a cob. They explore the bumpy and coarse textures, enhancing curiosity and sensorial skills. Fine motor development is encouraged in grasping and printing using paint on drawing block.

Cold, Coloured Ice Cubes

Sensorial Craft activity : Play with ice cubes and see the transformation from ice to water. Children can create drawings with the coloured ice cubes on drawing block for an enjoyable sensorial craft activity. Use food colouring to make the coloured ice cubes.

D is for donkey, dress, dice, dance, dots, dig, dad

Dolly Cotton Dress

Craft activity : Dress a doll with cotton balls. You can mix some glue with the paint for a colourful explosion. Introduce the 'd' sound with words like 'doll', 'dress' etc.

Dough play

Exploratory craft project : Dough play brings about creativity and therapeutic benefits. Children can create their 'Dazzling masterpieces'. This hands-on activity lets children work on their pincer grip, which in time to come will benefit their penmanship.

E is for egg, elephant, elbow, empty, exchange, envelope

My Purple Eggplant

Craft project : How do you make purple? (Mixing blue and red). Children have fun getting their hands messy mixing different colours to produce the colour of the eggplant. Cut up an eggplant and let them learn through interactive exploration, about the physical properties of this unusual looking vegetable. They can also do some eggplant printing on drawing block making different patterns or shapes.

Worm Art

Let children observe live wriggly earthworms from the garden and introduce them to the natural behaviour and physical characteristics of these creepy crawlies. Reinforce linguistic skills and artistic creativity through craft work by letting kids draw whatever they want using bits of yarn dipped in paint and dragged across paper (like icky wriggly worms).

F is for feet, fingers, flower, fork, frog, feather

Foot Printing

Sensorial project : This exciting activity encourages children to explore the use of their own body parts in art. Enhance observational skills by letting kids compare and contrast between big (mommy's footprint) and small (their own footprint).

Feathered Friend

Naturalist craft project : Introduce children to birds, their body parts and physical characteristics. Enhance sensorial skills as children explore the light and soft textures of feathers. Afterwards, use the feathers to make colourful bird art.

G is for garlic, glove, glue, gate, girl, goose, green

Goop Play

Make your own green goop! Use corn flour and water, mixed with blue and yellow paint (to make green). This thrilling project is full of sensorial experiences. Children can feel the different textures, liquid and viscous one moment and when squeezed, hardening before becoming liquid again suddenly. It is amazing fun even for the adult while kids develop science skills reinforced through colour mixture and experimentation.

Green Woolly Rug

Scientific craft project : Make your own mini rug! Introduce children to the colour green (from mixing blue and yellow) and the Square shape. Enhance sensorial and fine motor skills (pincer grip) as children use yarn to create their own art.

H is for hat, house, hedgehog, ham, hand, hair, hide

Hard and Soft

Reinforces recognition of textures. In a large box lid, put the drawing block paper and drip a generous amout of paint, then use a hard golf ball and let your child roll the golf ball around in the box lid, making beautiful random designs. You can also add other colours. Now use a soft sponge to dab with, contrasting textural differences of hard and soft.

Hand Art

Art project : Make hand prints and then draw faces on each of the fingers to represent a member of the family - Daddy, Mommy, Grandma, Grandpa, Brother or Sister and the child himself.

I is for igloo, insect, itch, ink, inside, iguana

Cereal Bracelet

Craft activity : Use Frootloops to make a colourful edible bracelet. Teach your child to thread the string into each frootloop. This threading activity enhances hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills. Children also learn about parts of the body and accessories that go with them.

Potato Stamping

An enjoyable activity that enables children to exercise finger-grasping and motor skills to create different Insects with the potato stamps. Maybe design colourful beetles or ladybirds using coloured markers?

J is for jelly, jump, jog, jigsaw, jam, juice

Jiggle Jelly Painting

Fun Sensorial craft : Jelly in the bowl, wibble, wobble, wibble, wobble! Use jelly to create a variety of patterns, let your child use his hands to experience the sensation of spreading the jelly on drawing block paper. Use various colours to make your jelly.

Plate of Pasta

Craft activity : Create your own plate of pasta! Develop your child's math skills as they differentiate between round and long-shaped pasta. Teach them counting as they create an interesting food collage. Use paint mixed with glue on a paper plate before sticking the pasta on it.

K is for kangaroo, kick, kite, kiss, key, king

Jingle go the Keys

Sensorial craft activity : Learn more about keys by making key imprints. Place the paper over the key and use a colour pencil to shade over the key to leave the imprint on the paper. Children get to work on their fine motor skills as well as observe and compare shapes.

King's Crown

Craft project : Make a crown fit for a King (or Queen)! A 'majestic' art and craft activity that helps build self-esteem as children make their own bejewelled crowns to wear and enjoy. Cut the shape of the crown from craft paper, remembering to measure the size against your child's head. Apply glue and decorate the crown using sequins and glitter. After the crown is complete, kids can march to the song of 'Old King Cole' in a lively music and movement session.

L is for laugh, lemon, lime, leaf, lamb, leg, leopard

Lemon Printing

Children can be introduced to the unique properties of the lemon fruit. Let kids taste the sourness and show that the 2 halves make a whole, developing math skills as well as motor skills (finger grasp). Enhance creativity by using the lemons to make prints and designs with colourful paint.

Woolly Lamb

Craft project : Children can discover more about the fluffy little lamb. Show what lamb's (sheep's) wool can be used for - scarves, sweaters etc. Using cotton wool, kids can make their own lamb on the cut-out shape, then stick the lamb on an ice-cream stick. They can then sing the song 'Mary had a Little Lamb'.

M is for monkey, mask, mirror, milk, mango, muffin

Marble Art

Fun craft project : Painting with marbles! Make creative use of marbles, by letting children explore the 'rolling' effect of a trayful of marbles. Allow kids to learn how to create their own artwork. Place the drawing block paper at the bottom of the tray, drop blobs of different coloured paint on the paper, pop the marbles in and let the child roll the marbles about. This enhances balancing skills and hand-eye coordination.

Masking Tape Belt

Create a 3-dimensional belt of all colours! This creative project enhances sensorial skills as children explore the 'sticky' texture of masking tape. They identify where their waist is as they create a colourful belt to wear. Use sequins, glitter and whatever art and craft scraps you have lying around to decorate the belt.

N is for number, nail, night, nurse, newspaper, napkin, navel

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