Looking for fun and creative crafts that will keep your little girls entertained? Here are awesome fun crafts for girls ages 5-8, full of colorful, exciting ideas that will ignite their imagination, and keep little hands busy and minds engaged.

Ideal for rainy days, weekend activities, family bonding, or a fun party project, each craft is simple, hands-on, budget-friendly, and super fun to make.

Choose enchanting ballerinas, playful snails, whimsical butterflies, adorable ladybugs, vibrant rainbows, slithering snakes, or dragon slime – there’s an awesome craft to match every little girl’s unique style and imagination!

1. Rainbow Popsicle Sticks

Let’s start by brightening up the day with a fabulous rainbow craft.

It’s easy to do and uses supplies you probably already have in your stash – Popsicle sticks, cardstock, and googly eyes.

These colorful rainbows and clouds are perfect for decorating a little girl’s room or a playroom.

2. Stick Ballerina  

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Is your little girl dreaming of being a ballerina?

Create a gallery wall of graceful ballerinas using craft sticks, Popsicle sticks, colorful cupcake liners like these, and a few other basic supplies from your craft stash.

I LUV how the cupcake liners become pretty frilly skirts for the ballerinas! This is such fun!

3. Paper Plate Snails

I’m sure you have a stash of paper plates in your craft box. Here’s a fabulous project that the girls will adore making.

You can make this cute snail any style you’d like with a quick change of colors in the beads and paper.

Are you running low on beads? My daughter was over the moon with this stunning set of rainbow colored beads.

4. Bouncy Ball

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Have you ever wondered what makes a bouncy ball so bouncy?

This fun craft and science project will give the answers and the kids will have fun making bouncy balls in bright glittery colors of their choice.

5. Pipe Cleaner Butterflies

These beautiful butterflies are so easy to make – we ended up with dozens, creating a fabulous spring nature wall in our family room.

You’ll need colored pipe cleaners like these, a hot glue gun, small clothespins, and small pom poms.

If your girls are younger, let an adult do the sticking with the hot glue gun!

6.  Scratch Art Using Paper Plates

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This is a great project for a birthday party. Every plate turns out differently making it fun and challenging for the kids.

They’ll love the big reveal as they scratch away to uncover their colorful creations!

You’ll need paper plates, oil pastels, Tempera Paint black, toothpick or scratching tools, paper towels or wet wipes for cleaning up messes!

7. Toilet Roll Lady Bug

Just like paper plates, toilet rolls are an integral part of any craft stash.

(If you’re not comfortable using old toilet rolls, don’t worry, you can buy new cardboard craft rolls like these).

These bright red and black lady bugs are fun to make. You can also let kids know that they represent good luck, and are a vital part of nature, as they eat pests.

8. Paper Spinner

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These colorful paper spinners are an absolute delight.

Kids can let their creativity run wild, choosing vibrant patterns and bold colors to make each unique.

As they spin, they make a cool humming sound and their beautiful designs come to life in a mesmerizing swirl of color. It’s a great way to upcycle old cardboard boxes.

9. Unicorn Toilet Roll

Unicorns are a must-have for little girls. These mythical creatures never fail to delight, and the rainbow colors are so attractive.

Create toilet roll (or craft paper roll) unicorns with flowing yarn hair, designer eyelashes, and glittery finishes.

I love using glitter glue pens like these, they add the perfect sparkle without the chaos of loose glitter covering every inch of the floor! No mess, no stress – just dazzling, shimmery fun.

10. Butterfly Clothespin

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Create these fabulous butterflies in just 4 steps. It’s a great project to welcome in the spring season.

Choose lovely patterned cupcake liners in different colors and loads of glittery beads to add the finishing touches.

Add magnets on the back and adorn your fridge.

11. Paper Plate Flowers

Combine a 2D summertime scene with 3D flowers for your little one’s new favorite wall decoration.

Kids will be thrilled with this fun summer scene of a smiling sun in the blue sky, earthy brown sand, and a little girl watering a glorious flower.

It’s happiness on a plate.

12. Braided Pipe Cleaner Bracelets

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Are you faced with a rainy weekend? Brighten up the mood with these stunning pipe cleaner bracelets.

They are simple to make and best of all – there’s no mess.

Girls can mix and match pipe cleaner colors and beads of their choice to create fabulous bracelets for themselves or friendship bracelets for their besties.

13. Paper Plate Frisbees

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Budget-friendly plain white paper plates like these, once again form the base of a fun project for kids!

Follow the steps to make frisbees that are light and safe to throw around. Kids can go wild and decorate them with any patterns and colors they like.

They’re perfect for little kids who have trouble holding and throwing a standard plastic frisbee disc.

14. Princess Wands

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Every little girl dreams of being a princess, and now she can bring that magic to life with these enchanting princess wands.

You’ll need wooden craft stars like this, a dreamy palette of soft rainbow colors, and some dazzling adhesive rhinestones.

The wands are fun to make and also double as magical party favors to make each little girl feel like royalty when they arrive.

15. Egg Carton Rainbow

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I LUV crafts that use everyday items in the house that would otherwise just get tossed.

Transform egg cartons into lovely colored rainbows topped with adorable smiley fluffy white clouds – perfect for decorating a dull wall.

This innovative craft uses a low-temp glue gun like this which is designed with kids in mind.

16. Pipe Cleaner & Bead Snake

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Who says girls don’t like snakes? They’ll certainly love these crafty  snakes made from colored pipe cleaners threaded with pony beads.

Kids can mix and match colors and twist the pipe cleaners into exciting shapes to represent slithering snakes.

17. Pipe Cleaner Princess Crowns

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Let’s add to the princess theme and create crowns to enhance the wands (No. 14).

This craft is based on the story of Nella the Princess Knight who embodies royal qualities like compassion and grace and also has the courage and determination of a brave knight. It’s a fun craft and a great life lesson!

To add an extra touch of magic to our princess crowns, we used dazzling sparkly pipe cleaners like these.

18. Dragon Scale Slime

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I can’t not include a craft for slime – as much as parents may not enjoy the ‘yucky’ feeling – kids LUV it!

I must admit – this slime is super special with its stunning purple color and amazing sparkles from the holographic glitter.

19. Dream Catchers

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These dream catchers allow kids to explore all types of craft activities from taping to wrapping, sewing, beading, painting, and pom-pom making.

Teach kids about the origins of dream catchers – Native Americans believe the night air is filled with both good and bad dreams.

A dream catcher, hung near the bed, captures good dreams and lets them gently slide down the feathers, while bad dreams get trapped and disappear when the sun rises.

20. Slime Monsters

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Here’s another fun slimy project – this time we’re making slime monsters!

They are certainly very cute and not designed to create any bad dreams. Kids will love shaping the blobs and decorating them with craft foam, googly eyes, and beads.

It’s such fun – my whole family joined in, including hubby!

21. Coffee Filter Flowers

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Last but not least, enjoy a cup of coffee and let the little girls craft beautiful flowers using coffee filters like these.

They make great gifts for Mother’s Day, Teacher’s Day, and are awesome to decorate a bedroom.

These dreamy, delicate flowers are absolutely gorgeous! We made dozens of them, creating a breathtaking wall in our family room, filled with soft pastel hues, like a magical garden that never fades.