Arts and crafts can help keep your kids busy for hours. Free up your day and enjoy some “me” time by introducing your kids to crafts. These type of activities need not be expensive. Just go to any home improvement or construction store to get materials. You can also visit online showrooms like PlumbTile and look at the tiles available. For kids, it would be best to pick the most inexpensive tiles for their craft projects. Usually plain tiles are best, but you can get creative and think of other projects as well for older or more advanced kids. You want to buy as many tiles as possible; you just can store them for later and bring them out on rainy days or special occasions.

There are many types of tile craft projects you can introduce to your kids. For younger kids, you can paint over plain tiles, which can be given out as party favors during your kid’s birthday or just indoor activities during the holidays or rainy days.

Have your kids paint on plain white square tiles or get a little creative and choose something rectangular like this Neri 3×6 Flat Tile from Adex. Simply paint onto these tiles and spray-seal with shellac. You can also superglue hooks at the back of the tiles to hang them in your kid’s room or turn them into fridge magnets. If painting seems to be a messy idea at the time, you can choose to do a decoupage instead. Bring out some magazines, cut pictures and let your kids get creative by making little collages. You can also use colorful stickers, but make sure to seal the artwork with glue or shellac.

Floor tiles, like this 13×13 Adex, work best for decoupage projects. Kids can have more space to get crafty and work with. You can hang your floor tile masterpiece on the wall or use them in the kitchen to put down hot pots and pans.

Painting and decoupage can be too basic for older kids. You can have them work on slightly advanced craft projects. They can create picture frames by gluing together 4 or more tiles or clustering together a few of these brightly colored 3d Gem Deco Tiles to make a great artwork. These Terry Square Trims are perfect as frame borders.

You can check PlumbTile for inexpensive tiles for craft projects.