Keeping your children Entertained with Craft Sets

Arts and craft sets are a great way to keep children entertained whilst also encouraging their imaginations through creative play. Helping build confidence through completion of a project, or concentration and patience when developing their ideas, craft activities can aid in cognitive development. Problem solving skills can be sharpened when figuring out what their next great masterpiece needs, and hand eye coordination is practiced when painting or drawing.

With so many great choices available to keep them entertained, there’s plenty of ways to encourage their artistic tendencies and keep them engaged. Here, we look at just some of the options.

Easel Boards and Aqua Mats are a super simple way of opening up endless creative possibilities. By providing a blank canvas to explore their creative process through, doodles and designs can become something bigger and bolder.

Whether it be an aqua mat for mess-free drawing, with their favourite characters lining it to inspire them, or classic easels to help with painting and pictures, inspire and delight with a place of their own to explore their art.

Out of the Box craft sets are ideal for little hands that want to create and play independently. Minimal mess kits, for doodling, scratching, sticking and more, there’s a wide array of imaginative sets to choose from.

Whether it’s taking those first steps into art with doodle or scratch foil sets, or bumper arts and craft sets for the more established artists out there, there’s bound to be something that’ll excite and inspire.

Bobble It is a stretchable, mouldable foam that’s great for making 2D and 3D creations. Create fantasy creatures or cool accessories by shaping and styling and then just let air dry to set them in place.

Keyrings and keepsake boxes can all be created and customised with these fun and funky kits. Blend and mix colours without the mess. Squash and squeeze in your hands for a brilliant, bobbly experience.

Slimes and putties are perfect sensory toys, great for stretchy, squishy, tactile fun! Create shapes and patterns and mix and match colours for fantastic slimy experiences with different feels and smells to boot.

From light and fluffy to colour changing choices, there’s some super, slimy sets to play with, that tidy away incredibly easily without too much mess.

Original Ooze is a particularly gloopy, gungey slime that comes in sandy, buttery and watery types of ooze for all different sorts of styles and textures. From buckets to pots of it, you can even make your own with kits to get their gooey senses going.

Silky soft, and in multiple colours, it comes in a resealable bags or tubs so you can keep it fresh for many hours of fun. Satisfying to squelch, it’ll provide plenty of smiles.

Whether it’s for rainy day activities or to encourage their creative spirit, there are plenty of arts and craft sets at The Entertainer that’ll be just what they want. Explore our range today and unleash their inner artist.

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