Craft Recipes from Pantry Staples

You won’t believe all the craft recipes you can make from pantry staples.  No need for elaborate craft supplies when these fun crafts can be made with items you probably already have at home!

Keep a few key ingredients on hand to be able to whip up some fun anytime.

 

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Craft Recipe Supplies

Here is the list of items to have on hand in your pantry:

• Liquid Food Coloring
• Paper towels (coffee filters, or napkins)
• Salt
• Cornstarch
• Liquid starch
• Flour
• Self-rising flour
• Alum
• Cream of tarter
• Oil
• Vinegar
• Baking soda
• Corn Syrup
• Paper towels
• Flavoring

Add in these crafty supplies and you are all set!

• Crayons
• Paint (tempera and acrylic)
• Fine Sandpaper
• Paintbrushes (regular and foam)
• Paper
• White School Glue
• Pipe Cleaners
• Balloons

Also, be sure to save clean packaging! Paper towel rolls, cereal boxes, plastic yogurt containers, egg cartons all can be recycled into magnificent sculptures. Plastic cap lids can be used to make the homemade watercolors.

Craft Recipes

Keep kids busy and entertained with these crafty recipes.

Puffy Paint

if you end up with extra self-rising flour use it to make easy brownies or 3 ingredient pancakes.

Salt Painting

Paper Towel Butterflies

Salt Dough

2 Ingredient Slime

Oobleck

Marbelizing Paper

Homemade Stickers

While I haven’t tried it I would think jello might be a good substitute for

 

DIY Shrinky Dinks

Paper Mache

From paper mache bowls to elaborate birds this is good messy fun!

 

Playdough

The above recipe is great but you might also like kool-aid playdough or aromatherapy playdough.

Homemade Watercolors

Chalk Paint

 

DyeD Eggs

Of course, you will have to grab some eggs, but simple liquid food coloring can make beautiful eggs. We boil the eggs first so we can eat them later.

 

Sandpaper Prints

While most people don’t keep sandpaper in their pantry head to the garage for this ingredient.

Invisible Ink

 

Scratch Art

 

NOTE:

This list does omit crafty projects made with pasta (for necklaces) and dried beans or rice (for mosaics) and fruit and veggies for printing.  Years ago when I was student teaching for my Art Education degree I worked in a school that had many students with food insecurity. It felt disrespectful and a bad example to use items in craft projects that could provide a meal for someone. Sensory bins filled with grains or beans could often feed a family. Now having said this, when food is out of date, or you have scraps of fruits and veggies that will be thrown away. I think it makes sense to make good use of it.