Supplies in Your ‘Craft Pantry’
If you’re new to kid crafts, it may take you some time to acquire the basic supplies used in many of the projects at www.FreePreschoolCrafts.com. Below is a list of many of the materials you’ll see used in the crafts on this site. These are all great, basic supplies that you should think about adding to what we call your home, school, day care or babysitting “craft pantry.” Many you may already have on hand. The basics include: pipecleaners, googly eyes and sequins.
Below is our list of preschool craft supplies to eventually have on hand in your “craft pantry.”
- acrylic paint
- acrylic spray (clear)
- aluminum foil
- baby food jars
- beads
- berry baskets
- bottle caps
- buttons
- cardboard/chipboard
- cardstock/ old scrapbooking papers
- chalk
- clay
- clothespins (spring and non-spring styles)
- coffee filters
- colored pencils
- construction paper
- contact paper
- cotton balls/swabs
- craft foam
- craft sticks (such as Popsicle sticks)
- crayons
- crepe paper
- decoupage medium (such as Mod Podge)
- egg cartons
- fabric
- feathers
- felt
- felt-tip markers
- freezer paper, end of newpaper roll or other drawing surface
- food coloring
- glitter
- glue (sticks and nontoxic bottled)
- googly eyes
- hand-held hole punch
- magnets
- milk cartons
- old magazines and catalogs to cut up
- paintbrushes (various sizes)
- paper bags (lunch and grocery size)
- paper plates (thin and sturdy)
- pasta (alphabet, tubular and macaroni)
- pin backs with clasps
- pine cones
- pipe cleaners
- pompoms
- poster pain
- ribbon
- safety scissors
- sea shells
- sequins
- smock or old “craft clothes”
- sponges
- spray bottle
- tempera paint
- tissue paper
- toilet paper and paper towel tubes
- yarn