Top Gifts for Crafters

Find Great Craft Kits and Products

You can find a variety of creative Aquadoodle products that allow your kids to create over and over again using water. Depending on the specific Aquadoodle product, kids use pens, stampers, and other tools filled with water. No clean up is required because as the water dries the design disappears (it takes about 1 minute) so your kids can make great art over and over again.

Recommended Ages: 3 - 7 years
Priced from $7 - $55

IlluStory is an award winning kit that lets you write and illustrate your very own hardbound book. This kit includes markers and special book pages for you to use to create an original story and illustrations. Once you get your story written, you mail it into the publisher, in a postage-paid envelope, and in about 3 to 4 weeks you will receive your book in the mail. There is also an option to create your story online. The finished book features up to 12 pages and includes a title page, a dedication, page, and an author's biography page. The author's name, book title and illustration are laminated onto the cover.

Recommended Ages: 7 - 12 years
Priced Around $20.

Play-doh is one of those products that will never go out of style. This activity-filled table comes with more than 45 accessories for plenty of open-ended imaginative play and also features lots of easy-cleaning and storage features. It also includes an activity mat that encourages kids to mold meals, make faces, decorate a party scene and create jungle friends. All ages will enjoy playing with this product!

Recommended Ages: 3 - 7 years
Priced around $25.

TaDoodles Scribble and Sing Art Station includes five markers and one art station that recognizes color and character names. The TaDoodle markers are smartly designed to fit into the palms of little hands, making it easy and fun for young children to scribble as far as their imaginations take them. This art station offers playful inspiration that gets tiny artists drawing lines, dots, zig zags, waves, and squiggles to the sound of music.

Recommended Ages: 18 months - 3 years
Priced around $25.

The Cricut personal electronic cutter, available in two sizes, has been called "the future of home crafting." Without the help of a computer, the Cricut can cut out beautiful and fun designs, letters, and numbers. These 'die cuts' can be used in scrapbook projects, card making, and any other paper crafts. The Cricut uses cartridges and simple keypad overlays to help you make thousands of great shapes, letters, and phrases in a variety of sizes and styles.

Recommended Ages: 12 years and up
Priced from $26 - $275.

The Glow Station is a flat, smooth surface made from glow-in-the-dark, light-sensitive material. It starts to glow when the lights go out and is your creations are made using the included 'light wand'. The light wand is shaped like a large pen and has a small light bulb at the tip. You can draw your own pictures or use the included stencils and texture sheets. I have heard that the drawn design will last anywhere from a minute to five, however, you can 'erase' any picture by simply exposing it to light.

Recommended Ages: 6 years and up
Priced Around $30.

I think this will be my next craft purchase. Using this machine you can make permanent or repositionable stickers, laminate materials, make labels, and create custom magnets. It allows for instantly transforming die cuts, paper, photos, and fabric into just about anything you can think of. Stickers can even be made out of intricate items like lace doilies; the adhesive sticks to the design without leaving a residue in the cut-out areas. This unit does not require batteries, electricity, or heat, making it safe and convenient.

Recommended Ages: 12 years and up
Priced around $40.

With the popularity of the Build-A-Bear Workshops, this craft kit will surely please lots of kids. They can create and design their very own fluffy friends to collect, dress, love and snuggle. The main kit includes the Lil' Luvables Fluffy Factory, three adoption certificates, three bear skins, fluffy filling and stuffing tool. You can also buy other animal 'skins' and clothing seperately.

Recommended Ages: 4 years and up
Priced around $50.

With the KidiArt Studio, kids can create and share their artwork using a TV or PC. This work station, complete with sturdy stool, is colorful and the perfect size for a 4 to 7 year old artist. The main unit includes a touch pad, a pen for use with the touch pad, and a real digital camera on a movable arm. Kids can get creative with their own digital photos using digital stamps or funky picture frames, and can even use the digital camera to make stop-motion animations. Kids can also take basic drawing and art lessons and create a full array of printable arts and crafts.

Recommended Ages: 4 years and up
Priced around $70.

This sturdy desk is perfect for all types of creative activities. It features a large work surface with molded-in compartments, plus a hinged dry-erase writing surface that wipes clean easily and opens to a storage area underneath. A hutch-styled shelf holds art supplies and the battery operated light automatically shuts off after 5 minutes. Also included is a 15-inch high stool.

Recommended Ages: 3 - 7 years
Priced around $70.

This interactive, battery operated easel features two modes of play and more than 600 voice prompts and sound effects to guide and inspire kids' imagination and creative expression! Optical reader technology lets kids create and discover as they play and learn. This height-adjustable, dry-erase easel easily converts to a creativity table with room for accessory storage.

Recommended Ages: 3 - 7 years
Priced around $150.