21 Back To School Craft Ideas for Kids

These easy back-to-school craft ideas are perfect for the first few days of school or as a fun way to get kids excited and prepared for the year ahead. Whether you’re a teacher welcoming students or a parent helping ease those first-day jitters, these projects are cheerful, sentimental, and just plain adorable.

It’s almost time for school. I have to admit, I’m sort of dreading the first day. I will miss my little rugrats. I might just have to do one more handprint craft to seal their cuteness for eternity. Thankfully, I’ve had a little help with back-to-schoo organizing from this post of Over 21 Back to School and Organizing for School ideas and some more inspiration from The Best Apple Crafts and Activities. Today, however, we are looking at these really cute, easy, and smart ideas for getting back to school that I have compiled to share with you and your little ones.

APPLE CRAFTS

Paper Bag Apple Craft

This paper bag apple craft is ideal for preschoolers or kindergartners. Easy to make and so cute.

Find out how to make the Apple Bag Craft.

Apple Stamping

This apple stamping craft is a fun and easy activity that kids will love! It’s the perfect back-to-school project to kick off the new school year with a little creativity.

Find out more about Apple Stamping

Thumbprint Apple Core Craft

This Paper Plate Apple Core craft is a sweet and sentimental craft for preschool and younger kids to make.

Find out how to make this Apple Core Paper Plate Craft

Apple Handprint Craft and Poem

I love hand-print crafts. This sweet little apple craft is from Mamas Like Me.

Apple Sun Catcher Craft

A suncatcher apple craft. Made with an apple-shaped outline, contact paper, and tissue paper.

This craft idea was found on Pinterest

Apple Paper Plate Handprint Craft Tree

This teacher gathered up all of her students’ apple paper plate crafts and turned them into an adorable apple tree!

This Apple Tree Image was found on Pinterest

Paper Plate Apple with Worm

This paper plate apple craft has a cute pipe cleaner worm.

I found this craft idea on Pinterest

Apple Stamping Craft

This fruit stamping craft is so cute in mason jar shape cutouts.

This craft was found on Pinterest

School Bus Crafts

Milk Carton School Bus

Many moves ago…our Elementary School did a fun school bus practice day and gave out little school buses to the kids. We always wrote the bus # on our bus and added some kids in the window

This idea comes from Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Cut Paper School Bus Craft

Provide kids with a school bus outline and let them cut and paste to decorate. They could also add their bus number as a fun way of helping them memorize which bus they ride.

This paper bus craft was found on Pinterest

Paper Plate Bus Craft

This paper plate bus craft would also be a cute lesson on shapes.

This craft idea was found on Pinterest

CRAYON CRAFTS

Handprint Crayon Craft

This paper crayon craft is full of the cutest footprint crayons.

This image was found on Pinterest

Handprint Crayon Box Craft

Make a crayon box from a handprint. Paint the palm yellow and four fingers different colors.

This image was found on Pinterest

Colored Pencil First Day of School Frame

First Day of Schoolpicture frame made by gluing colored pencils to a picture frame.

This idea was found on Pinterest

First Day of School Crayon Picture Frame

This first day of school photo frame is so cute. I wish I had done something like this. It looks like this was made from cardstock, cardboard, or from poster board.

This frame idea was found on Pinterest

Crayon Tissue Box

This is such a cute craft. To make this reusable, glue crayons to the outside of a tissue box cover.

This idea was found on Pinterest

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Crafts

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Paper Craft Idea

This is such a cute idea. Give kids parts to a coconut palm tree and some foam letters to glue onto paper.

This craft idea was found on Pinterest

Toilet Paper Tube Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Craft

Make coconut palms out of toilet paper tubes and foam letter stickers.

This Chicka Chicka Boom Boom craft is found on Life Crafting and Mom Life

Bookmark Craft

Make bookmarks for the upcoming school year out of popsicle sticks and mini clothespins.

Find this bookmark craft tutorial

Paper Bag Back Pack Craft

Use grocery store paper bags to make a BackPack craft on the first day of school

Get the tutorial for the – Paper Bag Back Pack Craft

First Day of School Craft Idea

• This one is from Teachers Pay Teachers

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