After our recent experiments with yarn on canvas, I started thinking about all the fun activities we’ve made with yarn and string over the years.
We’ve tried yarn art for kids activities with everything from printing and painting to making spider webs and installation art.
Ready? Here goes…
11 Yarn Art for Kids Activities to Try
2. Printing with yarn & liquid watercolors
4. Yarn paintings :: a fun and tactile art experience for kids
6. Cutting practice with string (great for toddlers and preschoolers!)
10. Yarn printed eggs (from The Artful Year)
11. Yarn spider webs
Plus, of course, knitting and crocheting, which Maia wishes we would do more of but I have a bit of a hang-up about.
Also, there’s a super cool children’s book called Extra Yarn, about a little girl and what she knits with her magical yarn (thanks to Molly for telling me about it a year or so ago).
Do you have any fun yarn art for kids activities to add to the list? You know we’ll try them!
More Yarn Art for Kids
- Tree Weaving With the Third Grade on Cassie Stephens
- Paint with Yarn on Picklebums
- How to Make Artful Pom Poms on Babble Dabble Do
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Heidi
August 8, 2013 at 6:37 pmWe recently discovered a treasure trove of yarn in our attic left by a previous owner. My girls have been make bazillions of yarn dolls! And I crocheted some flowers, butterflies and things and sewed them to hair clips for them. Thanks for the ideas-we have tons of yarn left to play with!
jennifer
August 9, 2013 at 12:01 amI was a knitter for years before I heard of finger knitting. My 4 yr old LOVES it. I bet a calm 3 yr old could do it. I even like doing it sometimes to join with her.
michelle
August 9, 2013 at 7:44 amWe are currently living in the middle of (and walking over and under) a yarn art installation which begins somewhere in my daughter’s bedroom and moves down the hall and spreads into bathroom, living room and front door. :) She loves colorful yarn. A new skein as a surprise at the beginning of a long road trip kept her occupied from one state into the next and although it looked crazy messy, it was a pretty simple clean up when we reached our destination. Yea for yarn! Thank you for these neat activities.
Fernanda
August 9, 2013 at 11:08 amSo beautiful! Here is our last playgroup crazy string sculpture!
https://amararama.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/mess-or-marvel-depends-on-your-perspective/
Hope you like it too! Love, Fernanda
Andrea
August 9, 2013 at 12:38 pmYarn! We loved the yarn eggs from the artful spring. The spider web looks awesome!
Josephine
August 10, 2013 at 2:59 amNow I know what to do with our yarns left from stitching notebooks.. My little sister would definitely enjoy this activity.. :)
Jean Van't Hul
August 10, 2013 at 1:55 pmYarn dolls!! What a great idea!
Jean Van't Hul
August 10, 2013 at 1:56 pmYes! A friend showed Maia how to finger knit this past winter and she LOVES it.
Jean Van't Hul
August 10, 2013 at 1:56 pmI never thought of yarn as a road trip activity! What exactly does your daughter do with it in the car?
Jean Van't Hul
August 10, 2013 at 1:56 pmAwesome!!
Jean Van't Hul
August 10, 2013 at 1:57 pmThanks, Andrea!
Jean Van't Hul
August 10, 2013 at 1:57 pmGreat!
michelle
August 13, 2013 at 7:40 amShe likes to pretend she is fishing and she makes little nests for imaginary birds. She also just loves to unroll it and then wrap things up in it, so I gather smallish different shaped things to wrap. On this last trip I threw in a bunch of old empty thread spools (the ones made from wood) which she loved wrapping and then piling/stacking together, also threw in some small plastic animal figurines and empty plastic spice containers with lids — she loved filling those with thread pieces and then decorating the outside of the containers with markers. (She is 4 and although she uses scissors frequently at home I am uncomfortable with her using them on her own while traveling in the car, so if she wants a piece cut I do that for her.) A glue stick and a shoebox filled with pieces of yarn has proven to be a pretty good road trip activity as well — by the time we get to our destination she has an empty colorful yarn covered box to store her vacation treasures in. :)
Mari
February 23, 2014 at 7:29 pmOut of interest what is your hang up about crochet and knitting?