Benefits of Creative Play with Craft Arts

By incorporating arts and crafts into daily play or even in a preschool curriculum, parents and educators can create an environment where children are excited to try new ideas, experiment with different materials, and let their imaginations soar!

Here are few benefits of junior crafts:

• Boosts creativity: Craft activities give children the freedom to explore colours, textures, and ideas in their own unique way.

• Improves fine motor skills: Cutting, sticking, drawing, and threading help develop those all-important hand and finger muscles.

• Encourages problem-solving: Figuring out how to bring a craft to life builds confidence and sparks critical thinking.

• Supports emotional expression: Art and crafts give little ones a safe space to express and understand feelings they might not yet have words for.

• Promotes social skills: Working on group projects or sharing materials teaches children about teamwork and communication.

• Builds self-esteem: Seeing their own creations come to life gives kids a sense of pride and accomplishment.

Little Hands, Big Masterpieces with Happy Puzzle

Our Junior Arts & Crafts collection is designed to turn every table, floor, or even bathtub into a creative playground! Whether your child dreams in glitter, paper, or bold strokes of pencil, this collection is packed with the perfect activities to help them imagine, design, and create.

Drawing and Colouring Fun: 

Encourage colourful self-expression and hand-eye coordination with these art sets for kids:

• Sand Art Bookmarks: Just one in a range of options! A mess-free way to explore colour and texture.

• Natural History Museum Colouring Jigsaw Set: A brilliant combination of puzzle-solving and colouring in!

• Paw Patrol Drawing Projector: Little ones can trace their favourite pups with a projector worthy of the Patrollers.

• Highlighter and Creator Kit and Monster Pen Creator: Our new range comes in a set and there are different options available depending on which your child likes best so they can create with design stationery that’s as unique as they are!

• Bath Crayons: No need to spend hours scrubbing to get it off the tub - these are perfect for masterpieces that wash off with the bubbles!

Hands-On Crafting Adventures

From folding to sticking, bending to building, these crafts turn paper and imagination into works of wonder:

• The Amazing Flower Kit: blooming with colour and fine motor fun, little ones can create their unique bouquets.

• Waxidoodles: soft, bendy craft sticks for 3D creativity. Even grown-ups will enjoy letting their creative side out with this one!

• Animated Paper Kits: This range includes a variety of clever paper-based characters to cut, fold and animate.

• 3 Minute Origami: simple, satisfying folds for little fingers. And a skill they can brag about well into adulthood!

Creative Thinking & Spatial Awareness

Crafting isn’t just for colour, it’s also for cleverness! These puzzle-based picks help children see patterns, build logic, and sharpen their spatial skills:

• Tillions: a bestselling hands-on tessellation game with thousands of possibilities.

• Illusion Cubes: the younger kids can play against the older ones as they explore perception through visual trickery and geometric fun. A great way to encourage a love of maths too!

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Get crafting with our junior arts and crafts sets, perfect for birthday presents, Christmas gifts, or rainy-day holidays! At Happy Puzzle, we provide fun, screen-free play through girls and boys arts and crafts, letting imaginations shine, whatever the weather! For kids who are really looking to take their craft to the next level, try our Creative Arts and Crafts range!