Crafternoon Kid’s Hub

Nurture your child’s imagination and let their creativity flow with Craft Victoria’s hands-on activities each week at Crafternoon Kid’s Hub.

From paper jewellery to shadow puppets and tin can drums, each Kid’s Crafternoon activity has been created to use common materials families have at home. Designed to foster important creative skills and beat boredom, the activities are easy for kids to tackle themselves or to make together with the whole family.

Activities include:

Flashing Lights necklace and medallion

Create your own colourful flashing lights matching necklace and medallion set. This activity has been created in partnership with artist Louise Meuwissen.

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Macaroni Jewels

This is an inexpensive and simple way to make colourful beads which can be used to create pieces of jewellery.

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Rainbow Salt

Create rainbow salt whilst encouraging children to learn and experiment with colour and pattern creation.

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Paper Animals

Create a free-standing three-dimensional animal sculpture. You can build up a collection for a zoo, farm or aquarium whilst learning about different animals.

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Shadow Puppets

Shadow puppets are easy to make and are a lot of fun to play with. Make all the characters and backdrops in your favourite story and recreate sequels using your imagination.

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Easy Air Dry Clay & Fossils

Make some super soft dough and let it air dry into a lasting piece of art.

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Tin Can Drum

Use recycled tin cans to create a drum kit, then decorate the drums with stickers and paint.

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No Worries Dolls and Creatures

Create traditional Guatemalan dolls and creatures that are used as a vessel to hold your worries and ease your mind.

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Create a finger puppet family

With some very simple materials, you can make your whole family as cute little finger puppets.

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Keep a lookout for Craft Victoria’s next activities:

• Matchbox Guitar
• Butterfly Kite
• Galaxy Drawings
• Bag Parachute

Show your children what it’s like to work as a professional maker by taking a tour with some of Australia’s most exciting craft artists inside their creative working spaces. Visit the Studio Stories page on Craft’s website and meet ceramicists, furniture makers, jewellers and other inspiring makers.

Keep up to date with what’s on at Craft on Instagram at @craftvictoria and share your own creations using the hashtags #craftvictoria and #kidscrafternoons.

All activities have been created by Craft’s Public Programs Manager Madeleine Griffith, except in the instance of the flashing lights necklace activity and video tutorial – which was created in partnership with artist Louise Meuwissen.