25 of the Best DIY Kits to Get Kids Crafting and Creating

Bring the squishy fun home with this DIY kit, which includes everything needed to create your own dumpling squishy! The kit features a mold, steamer, two glues, four color pastes, measuring and dispensing cups, gloves, glitter, beads, and a clear bag with a chain.

This whimsical fairy-tale cottage kit includes 229 pieces and brings storybook charm to life. Additional LED light elements and mini accessories like jams and sweet treats add to the cozy energy of this little home.

These blank canvas crochet bear craft kits allow kids to customize their own collectible. Each kit includes a Pour Palz character, 3 paints, a pour applicator, a mixing cup, no-mess gloves, an apron, a clean sheet, and an instruction sheet.

This kid-safe power tool makes cutting cardboard easy. Kids can use it to transform the cardboard into forts, DIY costumes, educational dioramas, and other creative projects.

This box set includes everything kids need to design loom bracelets and accessories, including a finger loom and 7,000 bands in several colors.

Kids can open this surprise box to find a Scribble Scrubbie figure that combines two Scribble Scrubbie Pets, with up to 36 different combos to discover. Each Scribble Scrubbie Mystery Mashup comes with three washable markers, a costume, and an environment play mat. Kids can scrub the pets clean to color them again and again.

Kids can create their own Goo with this all-inclusive kit, which comes with Goo powder, mixing solutions, mix-ins, and storage containers. Choose from galactic and unicorn themes (sold separately).

Kids can magically create custom charms with the press of two buttons! Each charm can differ from the next, featuring decorations such as icons, gems, and holographic pieces. The kit's built-in storage keeps all supplies organized for repeated creative playtime.

Kids can customize their favorite slime and mix-in combinations with the set's bingsu beads, glitter, foam beads, fimo slices, rainbow sherbet-scented Fluffy Cloudz and bubblegum-scented unicorn Cotton Cloudz slime.

Young artists can watch their 2D animal, princess, hearts, or unicorn designs turn into 3D creations with three themed craft kits: Animal Friends, Girl Power, Princesses & Unicorns. Kids color the designs, add water with the included pen, and wait for their art to puff up and rise.

In this little locker, kids will find all the supplies and tools needed to customize 10 fun floaty pens. Little crafters can choose sequins and shapes to float inside the pen, add water, then select silicone chains to clip on as finishing touches.

Kids can make their own dazzling rainforest scenes with the kit's fold-out panoramic poster and more than 200 stickers.

Notetaking becomes a colorful adventure with this two-in-one journal. With every page, kids can complete 50 reverse coloring pages, and take notes on 50 lined sheets.

Kids can paint and create their own custom wind chime, then hang it to hear the wind's sounds. The kit includes three paintbrushes, 13 paints, and instructions.

Kids ages 8 and up build their own pair of over-the-ear headphones while learning STEM concepts.

Crafting and STEM learning come together in this kit, which guides kids through building and decorating their own bee habitat. Hang it outside and use the learning guide to document and discover more about the pollinators.

With these collectible 3D puzzles, builders can re-create iconic city skylines such as New York City and Paris. Each set comes embellished with a display-style “TV box,” transforming the completed build into a shelf-ready scene. The sets also include LED lights and dual-sided cutouts for enhanced viewing.

This voice-powered sticker maker lets kids create and print endless sticker combinations with AI. It has guardrails and parents in mind with built-in filters and assurances that the device is not “always listening” to prevent unwanted content.

Kids can create whimsical towns with this eco-friendly DIY craft kit bundle. Little architects and designers can make, decorate, play, and display mini sets of a fairy house, a bookshop, and a bakery.

Tweens can create and share friendship crafts inspired by The Baby-Sitters Club books. Includes materials and instructions to make bracelets, bookmarks, fortune tellers, and more themed to Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, Stacey, and the rest of the crew.

The 3Doodler Start+ Product Design Bundle is an all-in-one set for kids who want to create their own games and invent things. Everything creative kids need to jumpstart the imagination: a Start+ 3D printing pen, eco-filament refill strands, nine Product Design Challenge Cards, and a 3Doodler Start+ DoodlePad.

Kids can build this motorized flower model with moving petals, powered by a solar panel, while learning about mechanical systems like motors and planetary gears. The kit teaches kids about how solar cells generate electricity.

This educational DIY craft kit builds a mini-house with solar panels, a wind turbine, roof gardens, and greenery. Kids can decorate and customize their house with the included furniture stickers.

This sparkling craft kit includes more than 100 gems and colorful puffy paint that kids can use to decorate the included blank pink canvas purse, creating a one-of-a-kind accessory suited for all kinds of adventures.

This 126-piece Makedo kit includes enough kid-safe cardboard construction tools and reusable connectors for a small group of young makers to transform upcycled cardboard into forts, vehicles, costumes, creatures, and more.