22 Craft Kits for Kids So You'll Never Hear "I'm Bored" Again

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a super activity! Little heroes can create their own capes with these kits, which include a cape in the color of your choice, as well as a letter, one large shape, and eight smaller shapes. Best of all, supplies are sticky-back felt, which means no glue is needed.

Perfect for Ages: 3+

Introduce little ones to classic collage technique with this charming set, which includes paper elements, glue, and picture boards.

Perfect for Ages: 3+

This craft kit includes not one but sixteen popular kids' projects like paper bag puppets and tissue art. It's the perfect kit to keep in the closet and pull out again and again on rainy days.

Perfect for Ages: 3+

Kids can create their own jewelry with this kit created by L.A.-based maker, Alex Hillson of Bottleblond. No two kits are exactly alike, but each includes fun pendants, as well as tassels, chains, beads, and clasps, with enough supplies to make 4 necklaces or 8 bracelets (or a combo of both!)

Perfect for Ages: 4+

This charming kit includes two wood rabbit figures, as well as fruits and vegetables, a nesting hen, and eggs kids can paint then play with. Choose the "kids washable" paint option, which makes clean up a cinch. Kits are also available in cat, mermaid, and fox themes.

Perfect for Ages: 4+

This simple craft kit contains everything kids will need to put together three sea-worthy cork boats. Once assembled, they also make perfect bath or pool toys.

Perfect for Ages: 4+

This kit includes 15 tubes of clay in a rainbow of colors, as well as a book with dozens of ideas for monsters, animals, and objects easy enough for kids to mold themselves.

Perfect for Ages: 4+

Little ones can paint their own farm scene with this kit, which comes with a wood barn, cow, pig, and horse, four wood fences, acrylic paint, brushes, and stickers.

Perfect for Ages: 5+

Stained glass sun catchers are a classic craft every kid should try at least once, and they make the perfect gift for friends and family.

Perfect for Ages: 5

Kids can create a home for feathered friends in the backyard with a make-your-own birdhouse kit. Pre-cut pine wood pieces don't require tools to put together and birdhouses can be personalized with paint (also included).

Perfect for Ages: 5+

This origami kit offers dozens of patterns that will introduce kids to the art of paper folding. Papers are bright and most patterns only feature four to eight steps, so this set is a good choice for smaller kids who want to give origami a go.

Perfect for Ages: 5+

Kids can re-create the solar system with outer space kit. Everything they'll need is included, from materials to illustrated directions. If your kid loves STEAM-based projects, be sure to check out KiwiCo's monthly crate subscription, which tailors projects to kids' ages.

Perfect for Ages: 5+

No sewing skills are needed for kids to make their very own monster. This clever kit includes a pre-stitched creature shape, as well as stuffing, felt pieces, and ideas to spark little artists' creativity.

Perfect for Ages: 6+

Kids can write and illustrate their very own picture book with this award-winning kit, which includes a guidebook to help them through the story telling process. Finished stories and pictures are then mailed in via pre-paid envelope and a professionally-bound book arrives a few weeks later. Lulu Jr. makes a kit for creating comic books, too.

Perfect for Ages: 6+

Children and adults will enjoy watching objects leave their shape behind as sun prints with this solar printing kit. They're suitable for framing and are a great way to create a vacation souvenir without taking any plants or shells home.

Perfect for Ages: 6+

Kids can turn fallen flowers and leaves gathered on nature walks into works of art with this kit, which includes a flower press, as well as bookmarks, trinket boxes, and stationery for decorating.

Perfect for Ages: 6+

Rock painting is the perfect craft for kids to do outside, with design ideas for a range of ages. This kit includes 12 rocks, as well as paint and paintbrushes, stickers, and glitter glue.

Perfect for Ages: 6+

Kids can choose their favorite paper airplane design, use the paper included in this classic kit to create it, then race one another to see whose plane flies the farthest and fastest.

Perfect for Ages: 7+

While this kit doesn't include a phone (kids will have to borrow one or use their own) it does include Lego figures with mix-and-match faces, props, and several backgrounds for young film makers to set scenes in. It also includes step-by-set directions for creating movies with the Stop Motion Studio app that will keep kids busy for hours.

Perfect for Ages: 8+

This kit allows kids to transform clear putty into colorful creations and includes colored pencils for labeling tins with their own unique names for each putty hue.

Perfect for Ages: 8+