Best Arts And Crafts Gifts For Creative Kids - Imagination Soup

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Discover the best creative gift ideas in arts and crafts for kids that will provide hours of creativity and imaginative thinking!

From the best of 2025 ideas to classics that will never go out of style, here you’ll find arts and crafts gifts, kits, and supplies to make any child happy.

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Arts and Crafts for Kids

Educational Insights Pom Pom Kitage 2+Develop fine motor skills and creativity with this activity kit, where kids decorate the animal dress-up design cards with pom-poms!

Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets Dinosaur Glowages 3+Dinosaurs never go out of style. Scribble colorful designs on your Dino pets with the washable markers, including two that glow in the dark. Wash off and start again!

Melissa & Doug Jewelry Making KitAges 4+This kit comes with 220 colorful wooden beads in fun shapes like hearts, flowers, and butterflies, 8 cords, and a tray so children can make their own jewelry while building fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Loom Animalsages 7+Make 14 adorable animal friends with this kid-friendly knitting loom kit.

Unicorn Messenger Bagages 6+Color your own messenger bag!

My First Paint by Sticker Farm Friends ages 3+Use the provided larger stickers to create ten pictures of farm animals, specifically created for little hands.

Harry Potter Clay Charmsages 7+If your kids love making small miniatures, they will love this kit with a 48 page book of ideas, 7 colors of clay, a charm bracelet, and everything you need to craft your favorite characters, objects, and creatures from Harry Potter.

DIY Journal Kit from Squishmallowsagse 6+From doodle-ready designs and themed templated pages to die-cut chipboard shapes, frames of your favorite Squishammallows, and 3 different sticker sheets — this stationery kit offers endless customization!

The Kids’ Book of Craft Love written by Irene Smit & Astrid Van Der HulstYour kids won’t be able to resist this big book of FUN crafts and activities. Cut and fold, sticker, build, loop, construct, decorate, and more! I LOVE this book and so will your 11 year olds.

Colors of the World Markers ages 3+ These 24 new Crayola colors represent the skin color of people from around the world and are essential for homes and classrooms.

Bluey Aqua Artages 3+Do your kids think these are magical? Mine did! Add water to your water pen and color the images. Watch as the colors appear! Once it dries, the colors disappear, and you can do it again.

My Sticker Dress-Up Wicked Witches The Unofficial Sticker Book for Ozians illustrated and designed by Louise Anglicas ages 4+Use the 500 reusable stickers to adorn nails, hats, and bodies of these school-age witches. The only thing I don’t like is that there are very few pages to put the stickers on.

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My First Scribble ages 2+ This is a classic gift for young children who like to draw and write. My daughter carried this exact notebook around with her for a year until she filled it up. Of course, I saved it because it’s so precious! The spiral binding makes it so easy to use. LOVE!! Pair with jumbo crayons or jumbo colored pencils in a cute carrying case.

Play-Doh Sweet Shoppe Cookie Creations ages 3+ Make cookies out of Play-Doh using the cookie cutters and rolling pin!

Jumbo Coloring Padages 3+Give your preschoolers a blank sketch pad and watch as they develop early writing and drawing skills.

Cat Mermaid & Friendsages 4+Make a seahorse, narwhal, and cat mermaid using the directions and included supplies.

Foil Funages 4+Pick from any theme (unicorns, animals, space, dinosaurs), then create pictures using the foil sheets and picture canvases. What a wonderful creative craft that develops fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination!

LEGO DOTS Panda Trayages 6+Make a cute and useful panda tray with your LEGO DOTS.

Elmer’s Squishiesages 6+Make your own squishy toys!

Diamond Painting Light ages 7+Make your own night light with diamond painting gems.

Make Your Own Dinosaur Lantern Night Lightages 6+Make a dinosaur lantern/night light with step-by-step directions. Choose where to place your dinosaurs on the vellum landscape.

Crayola Light Up Tracing Padages 6+This pad comes with over 100 images that kids can trace by putting their blank sheets over the awesome light-up pad and drawing away. Watercolor Wondersages 6+I don’t want to give away this book of darling illustrations to watercolor– because I want it for myself. (That’s ok, right?) The 54-page book also has 18 pages of instructions plus 7 pretty colors of paint, a paintbrush, and a mixing tray.

American Girl Dress Up by DKages 6 – 9If your children love American Girl dolls and books like mine, I predict this sticker book will be a new favorite. Dress the characters in signature outfits and create new outfits and styles.

Paint by Number Kitages 7+With nine designs, follow the directions to paint wall art.

Unicorns by Lulu Mayoages 7+Adorable, cute, lovable dogs fill these pages. Which will you color in first? Lulu May’s coloring books are enthusiastically endorsed by kids! If you like the Lulu Mayo drawings, also try her Bears, Owls, Cats, and Sloths coloring books. (Her drawing books are also fantastic, both my girls love them!)

Craft-tastic DIY STring Art Sea Turtle & Hibiscus Flower Patternsages 10+Use push pins and string to make a turtle and hibiscus flower.

Tiny Ceramics Studioages 8+Use the materials provided (including a pottery wheel) to sculpt, paint, and glaze projects from the 24-page book of ideas.

Latchkits Yarnimalsages 6+Latch hook crafts like this owl are calming and fun! Easy to learn — just follow the pattern.

Spirograph Mandala Designsages 8+Create beautiful Spirograph mandalas with easy-to-use wheels and stencil designs.

How to Draw a Bunny and Other Cute Creatures with Simple Shapes in 5 Steps by Lulu Mayoage 7+Do you love Lulu Mayo as much as my kids and me? In this new how-to-draw book, you’ll learn how to draw so many CUTE animals including a guinea pig, bunny, and duckling, plus a sloth on an Easter egg, a llama bunny, and a unicorn. The directions are easy to follow and the book gives you plenty of space for your own drawings next to the directions.

Sew Mini Gardensages 10+Sew your own garden plants — using the book of colorful, step-by-step instructions and the provided materials like felt and stuffing. Darling.

Wacom Digital Drawing Tablet ages 10+ The original Wacom tablets cost $500+, so this is a more affordable option at $60 for kids who want to get started with digital art. Plug into your computer and start drawing!

Faber-Castell Dual Tip Watercolor Markersages 10+Your artist will LOVE these beautiful markers because they blend smoothly and beautifully. (My artist daughter loves hers.) Use them with heavyweight mixed media paper like the sketch pad below.

Even More Classic Arts and Crafts Gifts

Playhouse Blank Castle ages 4+ Customize your castle with stickers, markers, crayons, or paint!

Crayola Pip-Squeaks Washable Markers ages 4+ This carrying case makes it easy to carry your markers anywhere. And washable markers are a must-buy arts and crafts gift for creative kids!

Crayola Art Studio Supply Case ages 4+ Here you’ll have everything you need for your arts and crafts projects with 64 crayons, 20 short pencils, 40 washable markers, and 15 sheets of paper.

Created by Me! Flower Magnets ages 4+ Use the provided paint, stickers, glitter glue, and paintbrushes to decorate your wooden flower magnets.

Craft-tastic Make a Fox Friend ages 5+Make your own fox stuffie, clothes, and accessories with a few simple stitches through precut holes.

Create with Clay Mythical Creatures ages 5+Create a unicorn, dragon and phoenix sculptures with this colorful clay set!

Ninja Kitties Coloring Book ages 4+ Even my teenager loves this book — the illustrations are darling and the messages positive and encouraging. Aren’t these kitties cute?

Fashion Angels Fashion Design Sketch Portfolio with Stencils ages 6+ My kids LOVE these! 40 sketch sheets with pre-printed models’ silhouettes to make fashion drawing easy for beginners or for anyone who wants to improve their drawing techniques. Use the removable stencils with over 50+ clothing and accessory shapes to help create different outfits and styles.

Give this Book a Cover: Spark Your Imagination with Over 100 Activities by Jared Lerner and You ages 6+ Drawing and writing prompts will give kids fun activities to complete on their own. They’ll get to finish a comic panel story, write a story about a cactus, learn to draw in steps, and much more. Engaging, perfect for summer.

Blank Comic Book – Draw Your Own! ages 8+ Kids can come up with their own comic-book-style stories with this exciting blank journal, where they can take their imagination to new heights!

Paint By Stickers Unicorns & Magic ages 7+ Use the sheets of numbered geometric stickers to match the numbered shapes and make a sticker mosaic of a mermaid, unicorn, castle, fairy, and more.

Smencilsages 6+Kids love these scented pencils!

WikkiStix for Doodlersages 3+This minimal mess craft is perfect for helping kids become imaginative by letting them experiment with 2D and 3D doodles through the use of the colorful WikkiStix!

The Ultimate Art Museum by Ferren Gipsonages 8+WOW — this is the MOST impressive, well-organized, and beautifully designed art history book for children that I’ve EVER read. It’s a curated book that takes children chronologically through 18 galleries from geographical regions and cultures such as the Far East, Ancient Egypt, Medieval Europe, and Byzantine period. Colorful borders and design, photographs and paintings with descriptions. Gorgeous — I highly recommend this incredible book!

creative artistic and craft gifts for kids

Harry Potter Coloring Book ages 8+Intricate illustrations and elaborate designs let kids color in explorations of Hogwarts Castle, the Forbidden Forest, magical creatures, and iconic scenes from the films. Want more? Look for Harry Potter Magical Creatures and Magical Places. National Geographic Mega Slime & Putty Lab Ages 8+ Do your kids love slime? This is a great starter kit for kids to make 8 types of slime and putty including magnetic putty, fluffy slime, and glow0in0the-dark putty. Not only is it great for crafters, but it’s also very helpful for children who need sensory play. Includes storage tins and accessories and a 16-page guide. Non-toxic.