BUILD YOUR OWN CRAFT CLOSET: The Ultimate Amazon Craft Supplies List

PAINT SUPPLIES (EVERYTHING IN THE LISTS BELOW ARE LINKED!)

1. Acrylic Paint: My go-to for paint projects, but beware that it will stain clothes! Also, my number one tip for using paint with young kids…let them mix the colors! If you don’t want it to turn brown, pick a couple complimentary colors for them to use instead of every color. For example, use purples, greens, and blues OR reds, oranges, and yellows.

2. Washable Kids Paint: This paint is good to use for finger painting, and for kids who like to paint furniture because it’s washable. 🙂 I don’t feel like it covers all that well (it’s pretty see-through), which is why I don’t love using it for most projects.

3. Water Color Paint: In my experience, you need to have a lot of patience if you’re going to let your child use water color paint because they WILL mix all the colors together and also forget how it works (that they need to dip their brush in the water, then the paint) 5 million times. But I think it’s still so worth it! Let them paint all over a big piece of finger paint paper (below) and then cut it up to make cards for family members!

4. Paint Brushes: You can never have enough of these!

5. Paint Sticks: These are great to use on days that you don’t feel like actually painting. They’re so fun to draw with because they’re super smooth and look like paint on the paper.

6. Smock: We use a smock every time we paint and it has saved SO many outfits.

PAPER AND FELT

1. Drawing Pad

2. Finger Paint Paper Pad: I love this pad because it’s large and great for painting, coloring, stamps, etc.

3. Construction Paper

4. Tissue Paper: We use tissue paper for making sun catchers that you can hang in the window.

5. Felt: I know it probably seems random to order a bunch of felt without having a specific project in mind, but you will be surprised how many crafts call for it + you can use it instead of construction paper to really pimp the craft out—for example, use felt for wings instead of paper!

GLUE

1. Glue Gun: If you only buy one thing from this list, it should be a glue gun. I use a glue gun almost every time we make a craft! It’s the magic wand of crafting.

2. Glue Gun Glue Sticks: Make sure they’re the mini kind that work with most glue guns.

3. Glue Sticks: This is a value pack but I guarantee you’ll go through them faster than you would think.

4. Glitter Glue: This is fun to use as decoration as it’s pretty when it dries, but you can also use these guys to make your own slime!

CLAY AND SENSORY PLAY

1.Air-Dry Clay: You can use this clay for handprint/footprint projects, cute little bowls/catch-alls, leaf imprints, etc.

2. Play-Doh: You can’t go wrong with play-doh! I love having enough on hand so that you don’t have to drive yourself crazy worrying about it drying out or caring if your kid mixes colors. Plus is there anything better than opening a fresh canister of play-doh? I think not.

3. Play-Doh Tools: These tools make playing with play-doh way more fun (for adults too).

4. Water Beads: These guys are so fun to play with—you only need a couple teaspoons each time you make them so this bag will last a long time! You put them in water and they turn into little water filled beads. There’s also a jumbo-sized version that I just ordered but haven’t tried yet!

TRIMMINGS

1.Pom Poms

2. Glitter

3. Googly Eyes

4. Feathers

5. Pipe Cleaners

6. Yarn

7. Tape: There are so many fun uses for colored tape—I often have Gracie tape random boxes and things around the house and she loves it.

8. Assorted Ribbon: This is so fun to have on hand for random projects! Michaels also sells packages of random ribbons.

MARKERS AND DRAWING

1.  Markers

2. Crayons

3. Sharpies: I love this pack because of the different sizes.

4. Chalk: Chalk is really fun to use on construction paper—especially black, obviously!

5. Colored Pencils

STICKERS

1. Foam Letter Stickers: The best part about these stickers is that it’s a bit challenging for Gracie to peel off the backs— which keeps her focused and occupied for quite awhile! She loves the challenge and I love that it keeps her busy. 🙂

2. Sticker Collection 1: These collections are amazing—so many different themed stickers, you can have your child create full scenes if they want!

3. Sticker Collection 2

4. Puffy Stickers

5. Dot Stickers: These stickers can be used for a lot of activities, for example—writing something on a large paper and having your child ‘line it’ with dot stickers.

BORING STAPLES

1. Skewer Sticks: You never know when you’re going to need a wooden stick, I swear! Haha

2. Parchment Paper & Contact Paper: Parchment Paper is great to use with a hot glue gun because the hot glue can peel right off. Contact paper can be used to make sun catcher crafts.

3. Popsicle Sticks: Is it even a real craft if it doesn’t use a popsicle stick?

4. Disposable Table Cloth: I love using waterproof disposable table cloths for when we paint—I usually use them a few times before I throw them away. Makes clean-up so much easier!

5. Paper Plates: I’m not sure why paper plates are so popular in the crafting world, but I’ve learned to embrace it. If you want to go down a very deep rabbit hole, search paper plate crafts on Pinterest.

6. Kid Scissors: Great for younger kids to practice using scissors.

7. Cotton Balls

OTHER TIPS:

1. For craft ideas that use all of these supplies, check out my two crafting highlights on my Instagram:  Craft Days & Craft Days II.
2. Check out the clearance aisle at Michaels as they often have random art supplies + art project kits that are so fun and super cheap! They also ALWAYS have some kind of coupon that you can use—just go to their website and pull up the coupon page before you check out.
3. The Dollar Section at Target usually has great little painting crafts and other supplies.
4. Amazon does sell ‘crafting kits’ that include a variety of different supplies like feathers, pom poms, googly eyes etc. if you’re looking to just have a craft box instead of a craft closet haha!

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