Preschool Crafts

6 Friendship Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy, With Pictures)

6 friendship crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture and simple steps. Easy ideas for ages 3 to 5 for Friendship Week, Valentine's Day, or any day.

Kindergarten Prep Team
Oct 11, 2026

Giving something away is a new idea at three, and a pasta necklace for a friend is a good first gift. Here are six friendship crafts for preschoolers, each with a picture, the supplies, and the steps.

Families make these for Friendship Week, the days before Valentine's, and playdates that need a plan. A three-year-old threads dyed pasta onto yarn and paints a kindness rock with one big heart. A five-year-old asks you to write a kind thing on each petal of the kindness flower.

Start here: three friendship crafts that always work

Pasta friendship necklace, an easy friendship craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5Pasta friendship necklaceThread, knot, give it awayKindness rocks, an easy friendship craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5Kindness rocksPaint a rock, leave it somewhereKindness flower, an easy friendship craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5Kindness flowerHer name in the middle, your words around

6 friendship crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

Paper plate rainbow fish, an easy friendship craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

1. Paper plate rainbow fish

The child cuts a wedge mouth from a paper plate, reuses it as the tail and glues on overlapping tissue paper scales plus one foil scale.

Collage

You need: 1 white paper plate, tissue paper squares in a few colours, 1 square of foil, 1 self-adhesive googly eye, glue

How to make it
  1. You cut one pie slice wedge from the side of the plate as an open mouth. Keep the wedge.
  2. Glue the wedge on the opposite side by its point as the tail.
  3. Your child glues tissue squares over the plate and tail, overlapping like scales.
  4. Glue the foil square in the middle as a shiny scale and stick the googly eye above the mouth.
Paper quilt, an easy friendship craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

2. Paper quilt

The child glues coloured paper squares side by side on a backing sheet to make a patchwork quilt pattern.

Collage

You need: 1 square sheet of white paper, coloured paper, black marker, glue stick

How to make it
  1. You cut 9 paper squares in a few colours.
  2. Your child glues the squares on the white sheet in 3 rows of 3, with no two neighbours the same colour.
  3. Draw dots on one square, stripes on another, and a zigzag on a third.
Kindness flower, an easy friendship craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

3. Kindness flower

The child glues petals around a centre with their own name and an adult writes one kind thing the child does on each petal.

Cut and glue

You need: yellow paper, coloured paper, green paper, black marker, 1 sheet of light blue paper, glue stick

How to make it
  1. You cut a yellow circle, 5 oval petals, a green strip and a leaf.
  2. Your child glues the green strip upright on the light blue sheet as a stem, and the leaf on its side.
  3. Glue the 5 petals in a ring at the top of the stem and the yellow circle over their inner ends.
  4. Write your child's name on the yellow centre in capital letters.
  5. Talk about kind things your child does, and write one on each petal: helps, shares, hugs.
Friendship quilt square, an easy friendship craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

4. 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.

Collage

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.
Kindness rocks, an easy friendship craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

5. Kindness rocks

The child paints smooth stones with bright colours and simple hearts or smiles and leaves them for someone to find.

Paint and glue

You need: 3 smooth rounded stones, acrylic paint in a few colours, black acrylic paint, paintbrush

How to make it
  1. Wash and dry the stones.
  2. Your child paints the first stone one colour. Let it dry, then paint 2 black dots and a curved black line on top as a smiley face.
  3. Paint the second stone, let it dry, then paint a heart in the middle.
  4. Paint thick stripes on the third stone.
Pasta friendship necklace, an easy friendship craft for preschoolers ages 3 to 5

6. Pasta friendship necklace

The child threads dyed pasta tubes onto yarn in a pattern and gives the necklace to a friend.

Threading

You need: dry rigatoni, dyed in two colours, 1 long piece of yarn, tape

How to make it
  1. Dye the pasta in two colours ahead of time and let it dry.
  2. Wrap tape around one end of the yarn like a needle tip.
  3. Your child pushes the yarn through the tubes, taking turns between the two colours.
  4. Tie the two ends in a knot.
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Friendship crafts with a 3 or 4 year old

Dye the pasta the night before, in a bag with a splash of vinegar and food coloring, and spread it to dry. Then the necklace is a threading job with no wait.

A three can thread pasta onto yarn with a taped end and paint a rock. The kindness flower needs you to write the petals, and the rainbow fish needs an adult to cut the plate.

The quilt crafts are for a group. Give each child one square, then lay them out on the floor together and talk about the pattern before you tape them.

The necklace is for a friend, the rocks go on a walk, and the flower goes home. The quilt stays on the wall at school for the year.

What you need for friendship crafts

Most of these use the same handful of supplies: glue, coloured paper, black marker, glue stick, white paper plate, tissue paper squares in a few colour, square of foil, self-adhesive googly eye. Everything else is named on the craft it belongs to.

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