Art and Craft Kits from ALEX Toys

About these art and craft kits

Arts and crafts kits for kids work best when the box decides the project and the child decides how it looks. Every art kit on this shelf arrives with the paint, the paper, the glue dots and the printed steps already matched to each other, so a craft afternoon starts with making instead of hunting for a second brush.

What varies most from box to box is mess. Peel-and-stick mosaics and sticker art sets can live on a carpet; pouring, painting and plaster want a wipeable table and an apron. The contents list on each card tells you which one you are buying before it is open.

Ages on these craft kits are honest. The younger sets use fat pieces and few steps; the older ones expect a child to read a card and wait for something to dry. Either way the activity ends with an object, which is the point of a kit rather than a tub of supplies.