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The 24 Most Fun Crafts for Tweens
Lily Kip is a crafts expert, artist, and writer focusing on family and kids’ craft ideas. She has written craft roundups for kids, from creations to make with seashells and beads to the best types of crafts kids can make to sell on their own.
Updated on 04/23/20
Inspire your tween and young teen to make useful and pretty items that will also build self-confidence when it comes to creating things with few supplies and lots of ingenuity. To whet their appetite for all things DIY, take a look at 24 of the top home crafts that are sure to catch your child’s attention. They’re trendy, cute, and easy to make, and the result will bring a twinkle back into the eyes of bored tween and teens.
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Color Saturated Bath Bombs
Bath bombs make great spa-style gifts. The range of colors using food coloring that’s possible with this pretty project will entice your tween or teen to unleash their inner soap-maker. Bath bombs aren’t always round; look for fun bath bomb molds in the shape of lips, donuts, fruit, and other novelty shapes. Fizzy Bath Bombs from The Spruce Crafts
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Personalized Flower Pots
Prep for springtime by making a slew of customized flower pots using simple permanent markers in any color or multiple colors. All that’s required is a steady hand to make the dots around sticker letters that are eventually peeled off to reveal the word’s outline. Make flower pots with someone’s name on it, or names of plants you want to use inside. If your tween or teen doesn’t yet have a green thumb, insert DIY faux felt succulents to fool the eye. Sharpie DIY Dot Flower Pot Craft from DIY Candy
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25 Awesome Projects for Tween and Teen Boys (Ages 10 and Up)
Need craft or project ideas for older boys? My 11 year old (almost 12) helped me choose this collection of projects, so these are things that are “boy approved.” When we say this, of course, we’re not meaning that girls wouldn’t like these ideas or shouldn’t do them! It’s simply a collection of things that boys might go for.
Art and Creative Projects
Wire Sculptures – It’s neat how much expression you can get into a figure with just wire.
Wire Mummies – Also a fun sculpture project.
Totally Easy Zentangle from Tiny Rotten Peanuts
Build a Star Wars X-Wing from office supplies – too cool!
Star Wars Paper Crafts – things to print and make.
Science and Engineering Projects
Dry Ice Bubbles from Not Just Cute
Build a Catapult – using office supplies and popsicle sticks!
Make Magnetic Slime – This requires some special materials, but it’s super cool!
Design a LEGO Marble Run – The post has a video demonstration.
The Great Outdoors
Build a Rocket Stove – cook real food with only twigs for fuel! This is a project that requires adult help, but it’s a pretty cool little cook stove made out of tin cans.
Build a Bat House – Attract bats to your yard with a DIY bat house. My second son is dying to do this! Bats eat a lot of mosquitos, so it’s not altogether a bad idea. He also wants to build an owl box. My parents’ neighbors did this and attracted a screech owl to their yard!
DIY Toys and Games
For more ideas for older boys, and especially hobby ideas, check out this post: 20+ Unplugged Activities for Tween Age Boys (It’s more like 30+ ideas because I have added to it!)
4 Comments
Almost Unschoolers May 22, 2015
Great list! There are several here we’ll have to try.
Nicola Jan 4, 2018
Great Ideas!
Vero Mar 12, 2020
These ideas are great, I am using a couple with my 55 yr old husband who’s just had an operation, we both love them! Thank you
Annie M Apr 26, 2020
Great ideas thank you for sharing
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