Our favorite yarn crafts for kids. Try printing and painting with yarn, weaving, and much more!
Updated June 2024
If you’ve got some extra balls of yarn at home and are looking for some fun and easy crafts to try with your kids, we’ve got you covered!
Here are our favorite yarn crafts and art activities. Some are super simple, and some are a bit more involved, but all are guaranteed to be lots of fun!
10 Fun Yarn Crafts for Kids
1. Make a Wooly Monster Yarn Wall Hanging
Create a bright, colorful yarn wall hanging or a wooly wall monster – your choice with this engaging textile activity!
2. Make Yarn Art Paintings
Simply dip lengths of yarn in watered down glue, arrange them on mat board, let your designs dry, then paint in the sections.
3. Printing with Yarn
Use a bundled-up ball of yarn as a printmaking technique! The results are cool and totally unique!
4. Try Simple Stitching
This simple stitching project is accessible and fun for kids 4 and up. Sew and bead with burlap on hoops for a fun textile activity.
5. Easy Yarn Suncatchers
Cut yarn and create suncatchers by placing it on contact paper. Younger kids will create abstract suncatchers; older children can create pictures with their yarn.
6. Make a Circular Weaving
Learn a simple weaving activity for kids with a circle of cardboard, yarn, and fabric. Create a beautiful piece of art to hang in your home!
7. Easy DIY Pom Poms
Use colorful yarn to make your own fun pompoms that you can string into a garland, use for crafts, or turn into a necklace.
8. Make a God’s Eye Craft
This is a fun weaving activity for kids of all ages, where you wrap yarn around sticks in the shape of a cross.
9. Pulled String Art
Make beautiful pulled string art by sandwiching paint-covered yarn in between two pieces of paper. Pull the string out of the paper sandwich to reveal a symmetrical and unique print!
10. Butterflies with String Symmetry Printing
Similar to the above pulled string art, but this time use the technique to create beautiful butterfly wings!
Do you have any fun yarn art for kids’ activities to add to the list?
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