Discover categories
Family crafts for the whole table
Family crafts are one project the household makes together, not a different worksheet for each age. Split the jobs by who can cut. Photograph the finish so the evening does not go out with the recycling. In Crafty, Family is a Discover category for that table.
What you need
A family craft uses materials you can usually find: paper, a glue stick, twine, a box that was leaving anyway. Some weeks the cupboard is enough. Some weeks the list is craft glue, heavyweight paper, or a ball of cotton yarn from the drugstore. That is why a shopping list exists — not because every make is free from the junk drawer.
Start with what is already in the house, then add one short shop if the piece should last.
Usually already home
- Printer paper or construction paper
- A glue stick or tape
- Kitchen twine, baker’s string, or leftover yarn
- A cereal box or a small shipping box
- Child scissors for tearing and large shapes — detail scissors stay with you
One drugstore or grocery run
- Heavyweight paper, if you are hanging a garland you still want in January
- Air-dry clay, if the piece should live on a nightstand instead of the fridge
- Cotton yarn, if you are wrapping rather than folding
Amazon is a convenience when a member opens a cart from the list. It is not the brand, and it is not required.
Time, who is at the table, adult jobs
Thirty minutes after dinner is a real window: set the table, make, wipe down. A Saturday is the other window — one longer project that can pause when the kettle boils. Crafty already asks how long you have. This page is the family version of that question. See 30-minute crafts and Saturday crafts with kids if you need to pick a length before you pick a material.
Who sits down is whoever lives here. Households are mixed ages. A toddler can tear and glue. A five-year-old can fold with a demo. An older sibling can string, caption, or take the photograph. The adult stays in the room. This is parent-guided making, not a kid-solo station you walk away from.
Adult jobs, said plainly. Scissors for small cuts, knives, box cutters, ovens, glass, hot glue, sewing machines. If a project in the app involves a lamp kit or a wall sconce, that is not a children’s tutorial. Kids decorate, compose, and help. You keep the blades.
A job chart that actually fits one table
- Tear — youngest hands, newspaper or scrap strips
- Glue — glue stick, not a gun
- Fold or wrap — with one finished example on the table
- Cut — adult, or an older child with child scissors on large shapes only
- Finish photo — whoever can hold the phone still; the shelf in Crafty is private to the household unless you send a card
If two ages cannot share a step, they still share a project. That is the whole point of crafts for mixed ages.
Five family makes (a small bench, not a scroll)
These are kinds of projects a household can finish, aligned with what Crafty already puts in Family and on this site. They are not a fake catalog of fifty SKUs.
Family · in Crafty
Paper star garland
Fold eight-point stars from heavyweight paper and hang them over a doorway. About thirty minutes. Beginner. The adult cuts squares if the youngest hands are still learning scissors. Full steps on the web — then the next week’s make lives in the app.
Paper · weeknight
Paper chains
Construction paper, glue stick or tape, a doorway you can actually span. One person cuts strips, one person loops. You keep the scissors moving. The honest weeknight version is written out in full.
A cardboard frame for the photograph
If the point of a family night is to keep it, give the picture a place to live. Adult cuts the window in a cereal box. Kids decorate the border. The photo can also sit on the studio shelf in Crafty, which stays in the household unless you share a card. How to make a cardboard picture frame walks the cuts.
Constellation energy, without pretending we mailed you a quilt
Crafty’s Family category includes a constellation quilt block: the people in the house mapped as stars on a sixteen-inch square. That is a Saturday, intermediate stitching, and it belongs in the app — not as a printable kit on this page. If you are not ready to sew, steal the idea in paper. Draw the household as stars, tape them in the hallway, date the corner, photograph the wall. Same feeling. Fewer pins.
The same project, stretched for a playdate
Two to six kids, one list, short steps. You still run scissors. Shopping-list quantities can stretch; you do not need a sealed kit per child. Crafts for a playdate is the group version of this table.
How Crafty helps
Open Discover and tap the Family chip — the same word as the category in the app. Pick a window. Materials roll into one shopping list. Walk the steps with the phone as a recipe card, then set it face-down between steps. When you are done, photograph the finish. It lives on your studio shelf.
One project is typically free in a given week. The rest of the library is membership. Free projects stay open. The yearly plan can include Apple Family Sharing for up to six people. A 7-day trial appears when Apple has one on the plan. Prices live on the App Store; we do not invent them here.
Crafty is iOS only. The name in the store is Crafty Kids. On this site we call it Crafty — a studio for the household, not a feed.
How Crafty works is the three Saturday steps: a bench, a list, a photograph. A kids craft app that behaves like a studio is the product page if you already know you want the bench on your phone.
More from this studio
Family sits next to the other Discover hubs on this site, and next to the age and moment pages that actually get searched on a weeknight.
FAQ
Can one family craft work for a toddler and an older sibling?
Yes, if you split jobs instead of splitting projects. The youngest tears and glues. An older child folds, strings, or decorates. You keep scissors, knives, ovens, glass, and hot glue. Crafty’s Family category is built for that mixed table, not a single grade band.
Do we need a craft kit for each person?
No. Family crafts here and in the app use materials you can usually find. A playdate can share one list. You still run the blades. If you want the contrast with mailed kits, that lives on the kits vs app page — different product, not a smear.
Is Crafty a kids-only app?
No. It is an iOS studio for the household. Make with kids, or on your own. Finish photos stay private unless you share a card. There are no kid accounts; an adult in the household runs the membership.
Open this kind of project in Crafty
Get the app on iOS. Start with whatever is free this week — often a paper make that fits the family table — then keep the list and the shelf when you want the next Saturday.