Welcome to mitkindernbasteln
Here, it’s all about crafting with kids.
On mitkindernbasteln, you’ll find simple craft ideas that you can do together with your child—step by step and with as little prep as possible. Many of our ideas are suitable even for younger children and can be easily integrated into your family’s daily routine.
The site is currently being built up gradually. We’re starting with Easter craft ideas and will expand our offerings throughout the year to include additional themes and seasons.
Planned topics include:
🎃 Halloween
🎄 Christmas
💐 Mother’s Day & Father’s Day
🎭 Carnival
🏮 St. Martin's Day / Festival of Lights
☀️ Summer
🍂 Fall
❄️ Winter
🌸 Spring
This is how, little by little, a collection of craft ideas for the whole year comes together.
Easter Crafts – Getting Started
To get started, you’ll find simple Easter craft ideas here—even for younger children.
Many projects include free PDF templates for printing. You can use these right away and cut them out, color them, glue them, or decorate them together with your child.
The instructions are intentionally kept simple so you can get started quickly and easily.
Free Templates
We provide matching printables for many craft ideas.
This saves you time on preparation and lets you get started right away with your child—whether cutting, gluing, painting, or decorating. Over time, we’ll be adding more and more templates for various occasions and seasons.
Craft Template Generator
With our craft template generator, you can easily design your own printable templates. You can upload your own image or select a motif from our library and prepare it to suit your craft project.
For example, you can turn your image into a coloring page, convert it to black and white, flip it, or remove the light background so the actual image stands out better. You can also use it to create mandalas, kaleidoscopes, or puzzle lines.
Plus, you can easily adjust the size, margins, line thickness, and paper size. Finally, download your template as a PDF and get started right away.
Crafting Techniques
On our page about craft techniques, you’ll find simple methods you can use again and again—such as gluing, stamping, blowing, dabbing, tearing, or laying.
Many of these techniques can be used with different templates and for various occasions. This way, you can not only recreate individual craft ideas but also design your own projects—using our templates or custom motifs created with the craft template generator.
Learning Through Play
Under “Learning Through Play,” you’ll find creative ideas and projects that can accompany children in their everyday lives.
These include templates and craft ideas that let children practice, discover, and understand through play. This results in small projects that are not only fun but can also be helpful in everyday family life—for example, when learning to brush teeth or practicing simple routines.
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