With the holidays coming up, we here at Kindle Fire on Kindle Nation Daily have decided to introduce a new daily feature: Gifts for… .
Each weekday at this time, we’ll share a very highly-rated, reasonably-priced, and Prime Shipping -eligible group of gift ideas with a common theme. Check in each weekday at at 4pm PST and get your holiday shopping done early, then spend those last couple months of the year relaxing and enjoying the season.
With these craft kits, kids can even make some gifts of their own to give to friends and family!
Fashion Headbands (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $20)
Includes a rainbow array of satin headbands, rhinestones, flowers, feathers, a butterfly, yards of ribbon and more
Great for play days and small group activities.
Create 10 awesome accessories
Educational fun: kids learn how to follow directions and crafting/design skills
Watch your child have fun while learning
My First Sewing Kit (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $23.51—29% off the regular price of $33)
KF on KND Editor’s Note: I got this kit for my daughter when she was 10, and she still pulls it out from time to time now, three years later! It comes with some great beginner projects, like pre-cut felt pieces for making small stuffed animals. While the contents list doesn’t include it, the kit includes an instruction booklet.
This kit won Dr Toy’s Best Classic Toys Award and Parents’ Choice Approved Award
Comes with cool pre-cut patterns, 8 colors of embroidery floss, shapes to make felt animals
This kit is a perfect travel or rainy day activity
This kit is a great activity for one child or a small group
Art activities encourage a child’s imagination and learning development
A notebook cover, stuffing, fabric, ric rac, needles, scissors, measuring tape, straight pins, thimble, pin cushion, buttons and a pom-pom strip
Toysmith Build & Paint A Birdhouse (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $11.10)
Everything you need to make and decorate a birdhouse
Easy to assemble
Requires no hardware
Includes birdhouse, 6 paints and paint brush
Size: 5.5″ X 7″ X 7″
Creativity For Kids Awesome Origami Kit (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $19.79)
Includes 100 sheets of patterned, pre-cut origami paper, instruction book and embellishments.
One Amazon reviewer says:
“I gave Awesome Origami to my art loving nine year old niece for Christmas. Eight months later, she is still regularly making origami from the ideas in the instruction book. She loves creating personalized pieces (she made me a dog that looks just like my dog) and giving them as gifts to friends and family…Creativity for Kids makes fabulous products that really do engage the creative spirit of children.”
Klutz Safety Pin Bracelets Kit (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $14.55)
We help you craft an entire collection of sparkling jewelry out of ordinary safety pins. From Mermaid Tails to Peace Signs, Safety Pin Bracelets includes 12 dazzling designs. You pick the colors and patterns, so each bracelet is uniquely you. The open-and-shut package keeps all your craft supplies organized and neat. Transforming household-variety pins into something brilliant and oh-so-stylish? That’s the point.
With: 48 page book, 175 safety pins in three different sizes, 1100 beads in vibrant colors, 6 feet of shimmery metallic elastic cord, customizable bracelet grids
Klutz Make Clay Charms Kit (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $16.48)
KF on KND Editor’s Note: please see this older, out-of-stock listing for the same item for 100 reviews that average out to a 4.5/5 star rating.
Make Clay Charms features simple step-by-steps for more than 30 different designs — cute fruit, adorable animals, mini sweets, monsters, and tons more. Make your charms with the nine bright colors of clay, bake them, add shine (with our specially formulated glaze), and then attach your creations to the included bracelet. Klutz-clear directions make it easy to roll, shape, and assemble these adorable little clay critters.
Comes with: 60 page book, 9 colors of clay (blue, pink, orange, yellow, green, purple, white, brown, bronze), charm bracelet, custom shaping tool, glaze with brush applicator, eye pins, jump rings, fold-out drying and display rack.
The Most Amazing Thumb Doodles Book: in the History of the Civilized World – Klutz (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $11.80)
Unleash brilliance at the tip of your fingers. Create awesome artwork with your thumb (and other digits) as your paintbrush, and the included ink pads (in blue, orange, purple, and green-thumb green) as paint. Make your marks, add some personality with a few pen strokes, and voilà: thumb art with one-of-a-kind personality. All your tools (except the fingers) come in a convenient recloseable storage case.
And if your thumbs need a rest, play Finger Four Square or Tic-Tac-Toe – now with real toes. It’s art, and activity, all in one book.
Comes with:40 page book, 4 ink pads ( blue, orange, green, purple), black marker pen.
Star Wars® Thumb Doodles: The Epic Saga at Your Fingertips – Klutz (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $12.75)
Want Star Wars® at your fingertips? Star Wars Thumb Doodles features four inkpads, markers, and a double-tipped colored pencil to make thumbprint versions of your favorite Star Wars characters. Simple step-by-steps include Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, Clones and Battle Droids, Ewoks and Wookiees, Han Solo and Jabba the Hut. Using ink art and a few quick lines, you can recreate favorite moments from the movies, or scenes never before seen before . . . even in a galaxy far, far away.
Comes with: 40 page book, 4 ink pads (blue, black, green, brown), black marker pen, double-tipped pencil (green, red).
4M Magnetic Tile Art (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $9.71)
Includes 10 tiles, 10 magnets, 5 paints, brush and instruction booklet.
Turn ordinary tiles into art, then attach magnets for cool fridge art
Be Creative
Includes tiles, magnets, paint strip and brush
Create your own work of art
For ages 8 and over
Toolbox Jewelry (4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $17.74)
KF on KND Editor’s Note: I got this kit for my then-11-year-old daughter for her birthday last year, and she LOVED it! She made herself two bracelets and a necklace. As with all Klutz craft kits, the step-by-step instructions are very clear so she only needed a little help from me now and then. One of the great things about this set is that when you run out of hardware, you can easily (and inexpensively) restock the kit with a trip to your local hardware or home improvement shop!
There’s nothing like taking a common object—hardware straight from the tool chest, for example—and making something extraordinary with it. Toolbox Jewelry is the first ever hardware jewelry kit to show kids how to make amazing industrial jewelry. This jewelry book provides shiny nuts, star washers, fasteners, cord, satin ribbon, beads, and earring wires, plus 60 pages of clear, simple instructions. Transform these practical thingamajigs into super-chic jewelry, and spur kids to create their own designs from other everyday elements. It’s the first father-daughter craft kit, and the perfect combination of functional and fabulous.
Comes with: 60 page book, 180+ nuts, washers and fasteners, three colors of cord, earring wires, beads, two colors of ribbon, resealable storage trays, slide-out work surface.