Craft Kits for Kids: 12 Best Activity, Science & Craft Kits

Activity kits and craft kits are fantastic for keeping kids busy and entertained. They provide hours of creative fun in a neat and tidy container which can be used over and over again.

Ideal for rainy days at home, boredom busters during school holidays, or even as a quiet activity on holidays, these 11 crafts kits are our picks for the best activity kits for kids.

Little Change Creators Re-FUN-able™ Colouring Sets

Best for: Toddlers to school-aged children
Our pick for: Colouring in

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Little Change Creators is a trusted brand with award-winning products that spark creativity and kindness in kids. We LOVE their reusable activity mats that provide sustainable fun at home and on the go. Each kit includes colouring-in pages that inspire creativity, mindfulness and independent play (woot woot).

A double-sided, dishwasher-safe silicone surface for twice the fun
12 non-toxic marker pens to extend kid’s creativity
A sustainable cleaning cloth for erase-and-repeat fun
A practical fabric storage bag for pain-free pack-ups
A scannable social-impact token to track your contribution and re-use as a bag tag
Eco-friendly, FSC-certified card packaging that transforms into bonus craft activities for kids

For kids who love to draw, colour and challenge the right side of their brain, this kids’ activities kit is a must. The quality is amazing too, plus it’s independently safety-tested and certified to meet Australian and international standards. Little Change Creators is a proud partner of Little Dreamers Australia, and donates its products to kids who care for family members with a disability, illness or addiction.

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Yay4Play Educational Activity Kits

Best for: Toddlers and preschoolers
Our pick for: Educational and structured play

These mess-free, structured activity boxes are jam-packed with educational activities for children that will keep them busy for hours and hours.

Inside each gorgeous kit are quality structured play products including fidgets, activity sheets and 8 sets of the famous Six Bricks methodology in various colours, plus four people, fencing, windows and wheels to expand their play.

The kit comes with two large building foundations so they could engage in parallel play plus additional resources for creative building – pegs, dice, ribbons and pipe-cleaners.

You can read our review of this kit here.

Shapeeze Activity Pad

Best for: Preschoolers
Our pick for: School Readiness

These handy activity kits are beautifully designed and packed with activities that will keep little hands busy. There are tons of number, shapes and literary activities and all activities are scissor-free too!

Each kit comes with a glue stick, coloured pencils and a pencil sharpener plus 26 pages of activities. Your little ones will LOVE this! And it’s Australian-made too.

Hand in Hand Activity Kits

Best for: Toddlers to 6 years olds
Our pick for: Subscription arts and crafts

These subscription-based craft kits are a great monthly treat for your little one and include various activities based on different themes. Dinosaurs, Farm animals, Rainbows, Transport, etc. Each kit comes with various crafts to do based on that specific theme, plus all supplies you need to make them.

The subscription service is delivered to your door monthly which is another thing we love about it – it gets kids excited for their monthly craft kit and inspires a love of creative play.

Uniquely Creative Scrapbooking and Card Making Kits

Best for: All ages (adults too)
Our pick for: Scrapbooking and cardmaking

Uniquely Creative are an Adelaide-based scrapbooking and card-making company that sells the most gorgeous kits. Packed with only the highest quality products, from card and paper to duble-sided tape and embellishments, every kit comes with everything you need.

There are plenty of scrapbooks, in all sorts of themes and the same with their card-making kits. They’ve also got monthly subscription kits where you can pick and choose which scrapbooking kits to receive each month. Check out their Christmas card kits and advent calendar kits – a great activity to do in the lead-up for Christmas.

Australian Geographic and Smithsonian Science Kits

Best for: Ages 6+
Our Pick for: STEM

We couldn’t decide between these two brands when it comes to the best STEM activity kits on the market. Both are equally good. These Science Activity Kits are designed by Australian science educators and come with multiple activities within each kits.

Great for at-home experiments, these kits explore several science subjects including astronomy, geology, physics and more. They come in both regular and micro sizes and include Rocket Science, Magic Rocks, Dino Digs, Rock n Gem, Motorworks, Mega Science Lab and 3D Hanging Solar System.

MEL Science Subscription

Best for: Kids 6 to 16
Our pick for: Subscription STEM kits

MEL Science is another name to consider if you’re after STEM activity kits. This subscription delivers three different science experiments to your children every month.

There are various subscription packages such as MEL Chemistry (suitable for 10-16+) and MEL Kids (suitable for 5-9+). Along with the first set, kids also receive a Starter Kit, including reusable lab equipment and a VR headset. Kids will also get access to the MEL Kids mobile app with augmented reality lessons.

Crayola Inspiration Art Craft Kits

Best for: Beginner artists
Our pick for: Colouring

You really can’t go wrong with Crayola and their popular art cases are always a hit with inspiring artists. They come with everything kids need to colour and draw including crayons, coloured pencils, markers and sheets, all beautifully packaged in their very own suitcase.

Great for road trips to simply around the house, this kit will unleash any little artist’s creativity and is a great choice for a child’s first colouring craft kit. You can buy this popular art kit pretty much everywhere – Big W, Kmart, Target, Office Works, Amazon.

The Art Studio Mixed Media Art Kit

Best for: Advanced artists
Our pick for: Painting and drawing

For the more advanced artists, we highly recommend The Art Studio’s stunning products, such as their impressive Mixed Media Art Case & Easel Set.

The craft kit features oil, watercolour and acrylic paints plus coloured and graphite pencils for sketching and soft pastels for coloured work. Each drawing kit also comes with paint brushes, a drawing pad and a wooden easel.

And what we especially love about it? The sweet little wooden kit to keep all the supplies neat and contained. A painter’s dream come true.

ReCycleMe Boxed Art Kits

Best for: Ages 5+
Our pick for: Eco-friendy craft kits

These crafty Re-Cycle-Me kits gets kids to turn their garbage into art, science, toys and more! Each Re-Cycle-Me kit includes all the art supplies you need to create wonderful projects, you only need to bring your own recyclables (such a toilet paper rolls, etc).

There are several themed kits – robots, jungles, ice cream parlour, etc and each kit comes five art projects to do. It’s a great way to bring out their crafty side and teach them an important lesson in sustainability.

Jumbo Arts and Craft Kit

Best for: Ages 5+
Our pick for: The ultimate arts and crafts kit

For all things artsy and crafty, a giant arts and crafts kit containing ALL the things – pipe cleaners, pom poms, felt, goggly eyes, you name it – is a must. One of the best crfat kits we discovered is the Jumbo Arts and Craft Kit by Kid Made Modern

It comes with 1,000 pieces to create your own craft adventure and is basically the grand slam of craft stuff. And, it all comes packaged in a reusable box to store your supplies when not in use. We can only imagine the arts and crafts projects that this mega craft kit can inspire!

Melissa and Doug Play Draw Create Activity Kits

Best for: Preschoolers
Our pick for: On the go activities

We couldn’t have a “best craft kits for kids” round-up and NOT feature a Melissa and Doug product! And our pick for activity kits is their adorable Play Draw Create Activity Kit range. This reusable drawing and magnet activity kit include a carry case with rope handles, 54 magnets, 5 dry-erase markers with an eraser, a built-in magnetic dry erase board, and a dry-erase activity book.

There are a few different themed kits to choose from too – trucks, princess, ocean, dinosaurs and farm.