--- title: 6 Family Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas) description: 6 family crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture and simple steps. 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Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 using paper, paint, and glue. [Kindergarten Prep Team](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/author/kindergarten-prep-team) Oct 14, 2026 --- These are the ones that get kept. A hand pressed into salt dough, two footprints making a heart, a frame with a photo in it. Here are six family crafts for preschool-age children, each with a picture, supplies, and steps, from a salt dough handprint keepsake to a paper trophy for Dad. A three-year-old presses a hand into the dough and stamps snowman circles with a tube. A five-year-old glues the frame and names each snowman after someone at the table. Later, the handprint gets measured against the real hand. ## Start here: three family crafts that always work [![Salt dough handprint keepsake, an easy family craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C137-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C137-2.webp)**Salt dough handprint keepsake***One hand in dough, a keepsake*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/family-crafts-for-preschoolers#c137)[![Toilet roll stamped snowman family, an easy family craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C082-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C082-1.webp)**Toilet roll stamped snowman family***Dip a tube, stamp, draw faces*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/family-crafts-for-preschoolers#c082)[![Friendship quilt square, an easy family craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C101-3.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C101-3.webp)**Friendship quilt square***One square per person, one quilt*](https://kindergarten-prep.com/blog/family-crafts-for-preschoolers#c101) All 6 Easy for 3 year olds No paint ## 6 family crafts for preschoolers, with pictures [![Salt dough handprint keepsake, an easy family craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C137-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C137-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C137-2.webp) ### 1. Salt dough handprint keepsake The child presses a hand into salt dough, which is dried and painted. **You need:** salt dough, rolling pin, round cutter or cup, paint of choice, paintbrush How to make it 1. Roll the salt dough out thick and cut a round disc about as wide as a saucer. 2. Your child presses one open hand into the middle, fingers spread, then you lift it away. 3. Let the disc dry hard, for a day or two. 4. Paint the inside of the handprint. [![Craft stick photo frame, an easy family craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C100-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C100-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C100-2.webp) ### 2. Craft stick photo frame The child glues four craft sticks into a square, decorates it and backs it with a family photo or drawing. **You need:** 4 jumbo craft sticks, markers, foam heart stickers, 1 square of white paper with a drawing, glue How to make it 1. Your child colours the sticks with markers. 2. Glue the 4 sticks into a square with the ends overlapping at the corners. 3. Stick hearts on the sticks. 4. Glue the white square with the drawing behind the frame. [![Paper trophy for Dad, an easy family craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C063-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C063-1.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C063-1.webp) ### 3. Paper trophy for Dad The child decorates a paper trophy cut-out with gold paper, stickers and a '#1 Dad' label for Father's Day. **You need:** yellow paper, gold foil paper, gold and silver star stickers, white paper, black marker, 1 sheet of light blue paper, glue How to make it 1. You cut a big trophy cup with two curved handles from yellow paper. 2. Glue the cup in the middle of the light blue sheet and a gold foil rectangle below it as the base. 3. You write #1 DAD on a white paper label. Your child glues it on the front of the cup. 4. Your child sticks stars on the cup. [![Footprint heart, an easy family craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C124-2.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C124-2.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C124-2.webp) ### 4. Footprint heart The child makes two footprints angled together to form a heart on paper, canvas or salt dough. **You need:** 1 sheet of white cardstock, red poster paint, paintbrush How to make it 1. Brush red paint on the bottom of your child's foot and press it on the cardstock. 2. Paint the other foot and press it so the two heels touch at the bottom and the toes angle outward at the top. Together they make a heart. 3. Let the print dry. [![Toilet roll stamped snowman family, an easy family craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C082-1.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C082-1.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C082-1.webp) ### 5. Toilet roll stamped snowman family The child dips the end of a cardboard tube in white paint and stamps stacked circles to build a family of snowmen, then draws faces and arms. **You need:** 1 sheet of dark blue paper, white paint, 1 cardboard toilet paper roll, black marker, orange marker How to make it 1. Dip the open end of the roll in white paint. Your child stamps rings on the blue paper. 2. Stack the rings into snowmen of different heights, side by side. Let it dry. 3. On each top ring, your child draws 2 dot eyes and a smile in black marker and a carrot nose in orange. 4. Draw 2 black stick arms from each middle ring. [![Friendship quilt square, an easy family craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hs-fs/hubfs/crafts/C101-3.webp?width=900&height=675&name=C101-3.webp)](https://kindergarten-prep.com/hubfs/crafts/C101-3.webp) ### 6. Friendship quilt square The child with friends or family decorates one paper square each with a handprint and favourite colours, and all squares are joined into a quilt. **You need:** 4 paper squares in different colours, paint, 4 buttons, round dot stickers, 1 large sheet of white paper, glue How to make it 1. Glue the 4 squares edge to edge on the white sheet in two rows of two. 2. Paint one hand per family member and press one in the middle of each square. 3. Let the paint dry, then glue one button in the outer corner of each square. 4. Stick dot stickers around each handprint. 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Write the name and date on the back with a marker. Glue the craft stick frame the day before so the square is solid when it is decorated. A photo from your phone printed at the drugstore fits behind it. For the footprint heart, do the two feet one at a time, angled toward each other, and wipe between. A small canvas from the craft store makes it a wall piece. The snowman family is the low-mess one: a tube dipped in white paint, then faces. The handprint quilt is the one to make on a day everyone is home. Each person gets a square and a handprint in their own color, and the squares are taped together into one quilt for the wall. [Free · 30 questions · about 4 minutes **Before you go: see where your child is for kindergarten** A report with every area at a glance, what to focus on first, and things to do at home. 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