9 best kids’ craft kits for creative fun during lockdown 

If the days feel endless, your children seem restless and bored, you’re not alone. It’s hard being a parent at the best of times – especially when it comes to keeping children entertained, busy and educated.

Crafts – defined as an activity involving skill in making things by hand – are a brilliant way of being creative and focusing the mind.

It helps people to relax, be more mindful and destress. It is no coincidence that therapists the world over are always suggesting their clients learn to make things with their hands.

The kits we have included here all require children to use their hands to make something that can then be kept.

We chose bright things, with lots of colour, and where possible, crafts that involved a number of disciplines. From tie dye to mask making these are boredom busters that require skill, creativity and concentration.

But overall, these crafts are a whole lot of fun.

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