Butterfly Clothes Peg
This is such a cute craft to make! It's perfect to make in the summer as part of a butterfly project and if you have any magnetic tape, you could make it into a fridge magnet.
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Minibeast crafts are fun for kids - and they are great if you are studying minibeasts at school or if your child has developed a passion for frogs or butterflies or spiders .. or any of the other little critters featured here! We've got something for all ages, from preschoolers up.
Bee Crafts
With their bright yellow and black stripes bees are fun animals for crafts. Enjoy our collection of simple bee crafts.
Butterfly Crafts
Celebrate the arrival of summer with these lovely butterfly crafts for kids. Many would make a good craft activity for a girl's birthday party, too.f
Caterpillar Crafts
There are around 180,000 species of caterpillar and they vary massively in appearance. Some are camoflaged and others are brightly coloured to scare off preditors so you can let your imagination run wild and design your own caterpillars using our activities below.
Frog Crafts
There is something very appealing about frogs for children - so frog crafts are usually very popular! They are fun for Leap Year as well as minibeast studies and general frog themes.
Ladybird Crafts
With their bright red body and black spots ladybirds are a favourite with kids. Come and enjoy our ladybird crafts, we have something for all ages.
Spider Crafts
We've got some great spider crafts for you to try, whether they are for Halloween or a minibeast theme or just for fun.
This is such a cute craft to make! It's perfect to make in the summer as part of a butterfly project and if you have any magnetic tape, you could make it into a fridge magnet.
Make this quick dolly peg ant craft for kids with some simple craft supplies from your cupboard. Instructions below.
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Whip up this dolly peg dragonfly in moments and clip it around the classroom or house! Fun for a minibeasts theme, we've got a similar dolly peg butterfly too. Instructions below.
These gorgeous, tactile snails are the perfect craft for young restless hands - and I think you will agree that the result is spectacular! Shelly used some of our templates for this quick, easy and very effective craft idea.
Shelly and her children make some pretty butterfly jars using printables from Activity Village in this lovely guest post. This is a really easy but fun activity to enjoy with the kids, so why not try making your own?
Go dotty with this lovely butterfly craft idea from Shelly! The results are really fabulous...
Sarah makes some beautiful butterfly suncatchers using printables from Activity Village in this lovely guest blog post.
These metalwork butterflies and dragonflies can be decorated by the children with permanent markers and they look oh so pretty when they catch the light! A really lovely craft for a summer display...
Quick and easy and great for younger children, this paper plate beetle is a super minibeasts craft idea and a useful way of teaching legs and pincers. Instructions below. Also useful as a scarab beetle for an Ancient Egypt theme.
Making your own puffy paint and painting a puffy paint picture is fun for kids of all ages and uses basic supplies only. Have a go and see what the kids can create!
We had great fun making these spider biscuits and, as they are really just a question of adding decorations to existing biscuits, it's a quick activity to put together.