35 Fun & Creative Art Gifts For Kids That Are Screen-Free And Imagination Inspiring

Ignite creativity with the Crayola Make Your Own Paper Kit! Kids can craft their own paper for endless doodles and projects. This reusable kit includes a papermaking machine, allowing them to create unique sheets again and again, sparking endless imagination.

Your graduate will have all kinds of summer fun dressing up the garden with pretty painted rocks they made themselves. This kit contains 10 rocks, six pots of regular paint, two glitter paint pens, four glow-in-the-dark paint pens, and two sheets of stickers, wow!

Kiddos with big dreams and even bigger imaginations will love creating their own superhero specials with this draw-your-own comic book set. It's made for kids so instructions are simple. There are 18 pages for them to draw one, and when they're finished they'll have a hard-cover book to keep forever.

Your little graduate will have a roar-some time dreaming up their own species of dinosaur. This stuffed toy is a blank canvas and comes with markers made for scribbling on its hide. If your kid wants to redesign it, that's easy peasy, toss the dino in the wash and he's ready for a new drawing.

The friendship bracelets that she made using this DIY kit will be the same ones that she and her BFFs wear when they walk the stage at high school graduation. The simple kit comes with 20 precut threads, enough to make 8 colorful bracelets. Instructions are included as well if she's new to the art.

What rhymes with eight? Hydrate! And that's exactly what she'll be inspired to do every time she sees the bottle she designed herself with this Color Your Own Water Bottle Kit. The kit includes a BPA-free metal water bottle, a set of markers to draw on the bottle, and sparkly rhinestones to make the bottle shine.

Practice makes perfect and after using this light-up tracing board, your kid will be well on their way to becoming a petite Picasso. With a little help from the light in the board, they get to practice good drawing techniques, get familiar with shapes and lines and how they interact, and experiment with putting their own spin on things.

With a plethora of pretty petals and leaves, this kit is perfect for kids obsessed with all things outdoor. When the temps drop, break out the set, which details how they can create a vertical "garden" of sorts with paper that will bloom all year long.

Voracious readers with a flair for all things creative will become authors of their own children's book by the time they're done with this kit. The set contains a writing guide to help them get started, and enough material for 20 pages and a cover. When they're finished, mom and dad ship it to the manufacturer to have it published.

An older kid will enjoy and appreciate the mental clarity that comes from working with clay after using this pottery wheel kit. The kit includes two packs of air dry clay for them to experiment with, a variety of tools and paint, and instructions to help them get started.

Every kid needs a good squishy, whether it's for tossing around inside the house (sorry, mom) or squeezing to find a little focus while they're studying. This peppy octopus is the rock and roll pal they're looking for. The critter is slow to reinflate after being squished, which only adds to the fun.

No one's refrigerator can ever have enough magnets, and that includes mom and dad's. With this kit, your tiny artisan will craft a dozen miniature magnetic tiles to pepper every metal surface in your house. Older kids will find that these magnets are great for their lockers, too.

Making a menagerie is fun with this kit from the great minds at Klutz. The 40-page book contains detailed instructions that will help a kiddo make their very own zoo of 12 animals. No prior sewing experience is necessary to enjoy, and kids will finish the kit with toys and newfound life skills.

She'll have the best dreams ever with this fanciful dreamcatcher hanging over her bed. The DIY kit features the butterfly as one of her chief protectors and contains beads, ribbons, streamers, thread, and a hoop for her to make her mystical decoration.

Making resin crafts is as easy as pie with this kit in hand. Girls of all ages will enjoy the simplicity of making the jewelry, keychains, coasters, and other accessories and revel in imagining new ways to make the translucent pieces sparkle.

A pressed flower kit is a good choice for a kid that loves the great outdoors. This all-inclusive set contains the apparatus and instructions they need to make and preserve hundreds, if not thousands, of colorful flower memories.

Once only something they could take home from the county fair, now kids can do sand art in their own home. This kit contains 6 odd bottles they can fill with 8 different colors of sand to create whimsical desert-like displays.

Kids, let your creative sides run wild with this Ultimate Arts and Crafts Material Kit. Kiddos that are love making stuff will find that this is an ideal set for making their dreams come true. With the over 100 pieces in the set they can make jewelry, toys, backpack tags, luggage tags, and so much more.