Arts & Crafts

Discover best-selling and award-winning kids' arts and crafts supplies, kits, and more. Creative inspiration is right at hand with finds from EpiqueOne Craft, AEM Hi Arts, Unokki, Butterfly Craze, Glow Rocks, Creative Chef, Tickle & Main, and more great brands.

Visual Arts

For little crafters, ÉpiqueOne Craft is your source for premium paper goods and craft materials. Stock up on epic art and craft supplies, including sets of pipe cleaners, chenille stems, pompoms, and googly eyes, ideal for the classroom, art school, or kitchen table craft projects. Need DIY party decorations? Find fun and affordable tissue paper pompoms, metallic garlands and balloons, paper lanterns, and honeycomb balls in festive and fabulous colors to celebrate holidays, special events, or your child's next birthday. Give young painters and visual artists quality supplies from AEM Hi Arts. Their 24-color art kits include watercolor paints, brushes, paper, and mixing palettes, all in a portable package ideal for on-the-go and outdoor artistry. Fill your craft cupboard or art room shelves with an array of washable markers, chalkboard pens, glitter, stationery, craft paper, and more kid-friendly supplies.

Music

Help young performers interested in acting, dancing, and singing start out right with imagination-inspiring costumes and musical instruments. Discover Unokki, maker of steel and mahogany kalimbas, also known as finger- or thumb- pianos. These palm-sized wonders get kids of all ages playing in no time, thanks to keys engraved with easy-to-learn notes, helpful instructions, and a beautifully satisfying harpsichord-like sound. Future stage stars always enjoy dress-up, and Butterfly Craze makes comfy and colorful options, from mermaid and snow princess ensembles to make-believe accessories, like fairy wings, wands, and tiaras. Delight little dancers with costume tutus and soft, posable ballerina dolls. Bravo!

Culinary Arts and Gardening

Cake and cookie decorating is an art, too. Treat your tiny top chef to cookie cutters, icing tubes, and more marvelous, functional baking tools from Curious Chef. Kitchen creativity helps kids with direction-following, measuring, and color sense, as well as inspiring them to try new foods. Or, go green and combine art and nature's beauty by growing beautiful flowers and herbs with real, working, kid-size gardening gear from Curious Chef's sister brand, Curious Gardener. For the kitchen counter or backyard plot, Curious Chef gardening equipment is designed and made especially for small hands to ensure more function and less frustration. From rakes, trowels, and seedling pots to kitchen knives, mixing bowls, and aprons, gear up your young gourmet or horticulturist for colorful (and yummy) creative success. Another bright idea: Add sun shine to garden creations with luminescent Glow Rocks in shimmering colors and combinations. Safe, non-toxic glow rocks make bright additions to potted plants, fairy gardens, aquariums, or any indoor or outdoor creative space that would benefit from the shimmer of stones aglow.

Gifts for a Variety of Young Artistic Talent

For plenty of arts and crafts supplies and creative fun, look to Tickle & Main, makers of clever, curated gift sets for kids. Their Beary First Band (which includes five musical instruments), Princess Chef (with an adjustable apron and sparkly chef's hat), and Ballerina Princess (with dancer doll and sparkly tiara) boxes are topped with ready-to-gift bows and each comes with a colorful, illustrated book to encourage further music, cooking, or dance exploration.

From developing visual-spatial and fine motor skills to encouraging creative problem solving, studies have shown that children who participate in the arts enjoy developmental benefits that also correlate to long-term academic achievement. And there are so many creative outlets from which children can choose. Whether your child expresses their creativity through painting and crafting, cooking and gardening, singing and playing instruments, or dancing and dress-up, ways to inspire them are just a click away.