When the rainy weather keeps you indoors, it’s the perfect time to get crafty with the kids. I know how hard it can be all cooped up in the house and either everyone is piled up on top of one another or hiding away in their rooms doing their own thing. Either of those are fine but if your overstimulated or just out of things to watch, I have some fun simple crafts with things you have just laying around the house.
Here are some fun, easy sensory learning crafts that will keep those little hands busy and imaginations soaring. Let’s turn those gloomy days into creative adventures!
- Textured Crafts– Let’s get creative and make some cool new craft characters. Using different materials such as puff balls, pipe cleaners, toilet paper rolls, paint, sand, rice and beans etc. to create fun crazy images. You can also use construction paper and glue some yarn to it in your own favorite wild design, cover with aluminum foil making sure to press around yarn so it is defined and color with markers.
- Pasta Necklaces– Pasta jewelry will last a lifetime and make a unique fashion statement. This simple rainy day craft uses dry pasta, string and food coloring, simple enough, right? Dye your pasta fun cool colors and allow the kids to string their own Pasta Necklace!
- Salt Dough Ornaments– 3-ingredient salt dough ornament recipe comes together in no time. Start with four cups of all-purpose flour and one cup salt, mix together and add one and half cups of warm water. Mix until ingredients reach a dough like consistency. Roll dough out and using any size or shape cookie cutters, cut out your perfect ornament. Putting your cut dough on a cookie sheet don’t forget to place holes with a toothpick and leave to air dry. Decorate the ornaments with paint and craft varnish to keep them for holidays to come.
- Sensory Bins– This easy sensory craft will for sure be a hit for the littler ones ready to learn about their senses. In-between rainy day movies and snacks maybe you have time to find some beans, rice, kinetic sand, dirt or Orbitz balls and fill a container or bowl deep enough to hide things in. Now you can find toys, learning numbers or color matching objects to hide in your bin and let the children find and match for endless fun and learning!
- Bubble Wrap Painting– This one comes with ease for your rainy day craft. Grab some bubble wrap, paper and paint. You can simple paint the bubble wrap a cool crazy pattern, while still wet transfer the bubble wrap to your sheet of paper for a fun textured look of your crazy designs. You can also tape the bubble wrap to the floor, paint your feet and stomp in some different fun patterns to take on a different form of painting and get messy!
I Hope you and the kiddos enjoyed some of my Rainy Day Craft ideas. If you have any ideas you love doing with your children when your stuck inside please feel free to leave a comment!