Good arts and crafts and make-y kits for 8yo

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Dd turning 8 soon. Loves craft kits so thought this might be good idea for all the relatives asking for ideas. She has in the past loved a fairy garden and paint your own rubber ducks and fairy doors. Also a build a bear home stuffing station (I know!). And all those blimmin slime kits.

Am happy to help to a certain extent but have younger kids so would love things that need minimal supervision anyone had any good ones to recommend?

We have had some really good kits from hobby craft there own brand ones are nice. Also look at Galt who make craft kits.

Will check those out

Mine love klutz books, this year I’ve added the bakery one (you make little treats out of clay) and the sew cool food one (you can sew cute things out of felt)

The Range usually have bloody dozens of them to choose from.

GAlt does a fantastic my first pottery set which you can buy some extra wet clay to go with. It may say 3 years plus, but it is fine for an 8yo.

Melissa and Doug scratch art. Loads of themes.

Melissa and Doug trained glass. My DS really really loved these. Again, there are loads.

The orb mosaic stickers sets are lovely too.

Djeco does great origami.

Does she like Hama beads? We have loads of boards in different shapes which helps a lot and we have pretty every colour theme they make. DS loves them.

Aquabeads are also great, and they have the advantage that children can set them themselves with water, no need for an adult to iron.

Sprinkles are also great. Kids can colour them in and cut them out, then you bake them in the oven to turn them into hard plastic. Some sets have key rings and magnets which give the plastic purpose.

More fab ideas to check out. Thank you

Hama beads and sequin art were big hits with my DDs at this age (both needed a bit of help but I got quite into them too and it was nice to sit and chat and craft together.) Also decoupage - once you've bought the PVA glue and brushes and some paper you can decoupage all sorts of things - cardboard or wooden boxes, Christmas baubles, even furniture if you get ambitious!

Correcting typos - shrinkles not sprinkles. Stained glass not trained glass.

@welltidy those Melissa and Doug stained glass kits look brilliant. She will love them. Thanks

brilliant! ds has done all of them save for the very obviously girlie ones. he loves them. he took them into school one day to show his art teacher, bless him.

I don't like kits. The quality is always compromised somewhere. I think you're better off buying her some quality, basic "ingredients" and a showing her websites with ideas....or get her a good book.

Some fimo, good acrylic paints, good brushes, glue, glitter, sharpies, a selection of trims, buttons and beads....I could go on and on but you get the picture.

Thanks AjasLipstick but it is kits I am after.

They're never as good quality when it comes to the materials. The paints aren't as good or the brushes are bad. There's always something compromised.

I can understand why people get them but it's better to let your child come up with their own creative ideas rather than something someone else has designed.

I don't know how they are this year - but my mum's got a lot in the past from Wilkos (they have a huge store near hers but you might have to go online if your local one is crap like ours is) - had things like a decorate your own clock one and stuff that's kept DD1 busy for absolute hours.

DD (9yo) has started doing DecoPatch. It's basically cardboard models you cover in coloured paper. They do kits and individual bits. I get kits from Amazon as there's a good choice and the individual stuff from Hobbycraft.

Fimo has also been a favourite over the summer when we had a few days of rain. I bought a set of about 12 colours (small amounts of each) and then the tools separately. Was great fun and DD enjoyed looking on Pinterest for ideas to copy.