12 Best Arts & Crafts Toys for Christmas

12 Best Arts & Crafts Toys for Christmas

With the holiday season blowing in, there’s no better time for kids and adults alike to get comfy and cozy with a great arts and crafts project.

These creative LEGO® sets are packed with rebuildable creativity for bringing out the best in young arts and crafts lovers. What will they build?

LEGO® Ideas Family Tree

This holiday season, the whole family can enjoy a fun project, relive cherished memories and create a striking piece of home décor with the LEGO Ideas Family Tree building set. This customizable 1,040-piece brick-built ornament features 16 hanging holders to display small photographs, notes, ticket stubs, messages and other special family mementos.

Inside the hidden storage compartment at the tree’s base are a further selection of accessories to decorate the tree, including seasonal tree foliage, 2 bird figures, 4 bird houses and a Filipino butterfly in the tree and much more.

LEGO® Message Board

Kids aged 9 and up with a passion for arts and crafts can express themselves during the holiday period with this colorful LEGO Message Board building set.

Creative kids can gather their family together and make a big statement by building up to 30 letters from the Latin alphabet with help from 4 posters, then follow the instructions to create a Message Board or use them to inspire their own design.

Once the Message Board is complete, they can decorate it with 10 emoji stickers and display it in any room of the house. All kids have something to say and they can do it here!

LEGO® Art Mona Lisa

Create a masterpiece this Christmas with the LEGO® Art Mona Lisa building kit, which can be a treat for yourself or a great gift idea for an art lover who enjoys a creative activity.

This LEGO brick-built interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has been specially designed to hang on a wall inside an elegant and detachable gold-colored frame. The Mona Lisa’s famous eyes can also be swapped with blank pieces to give the painting a more abstract appearance.

This 1,503-piece LEGO set for adults comes with a building instructions booklet, and after scanning a QR code you can also listen to fascinating content on the Mona Lisa’s timeless appeal.

LEGO® Creator Retro Camera

Kids aged 8 and up can build and rebuild 3 different pieces of vintage technology using the same set of bricks with this LEGO Creator 3in1 Retro Camera building set.

The perfect gift to inspire imaginative play, the camera toy features a moving lens, buttons on the top to take a photo, an opening back to place a brick-built piece of film inside and a multicolored textile strap to carry it. There are also 6 stickers for kids to add to the film to represent their photos.

The model can then be rebuilt into a retro video camera or a retro TV with an antenna, and after playtime each of the 3 models make for cool display items.

LEGO® Classic Vibrant Creative Brick Box

This Christmas, little builders aged 4 and up can dive into the LEGO Classic Vibrant Creative Brick Box to enjoy countless hours of creative fun.

The box contains 850 LEGO bricks and pieces to inspire kids to create a huge range of cool toys, including a horse, a cherry, a boom box, a rotating windmill, a skateboard and much more.

The fun doesn’t stop there as kids can then mix the bricks again to switch the color, shape and size and swap doors, windows, wheels, plants, eyes and see-through pieces to create unique models of their own.

LEGO® Creator Retro Roller Skate

Travel back in time with the LEGO® Creator 3in1 Retro Roller Skate building set, which lets kids aged 8 and up build 3 different pop culture icons with the same set of bricks.

The playset includes a roller skate toy with 4 moving pink wheels, a pink stopper, thick yellow laces and a set of colorful pieces for kids to decorate the heel of the boot with their own designs.

Kids can then rebuild it into a retro mini skateboard with 4 moving wheels or a retro boom box radio with a small antenna. It makes for a fun and colorful holiday gift for both play and display.

LEGO® Ideas Polaroid OneStep SX-70 Camera

Spend the holiday season recreating a design classic with the brick-built LEGO Ideas Polaroid OneStep SX-70 Camera – a great gift for nostalgic photographers and camera lovers.

This premium LEGO model has iconic details from the original camera, including the viewfinder, Color Spectrum and exposure compensation dial, a ‘Polaroid Land Camera’ sticker and a choice of ‘OneStep’ or ‘1000’ stickers.

This set for adults also comes with 3 illustrated ‘photos’, including one of Polaroid inventor Edwin H. Land. You can load one of the photos into the camera, press the red shutter button and watch it being ejected. Almost like the real thing!

LEGO® Creator Modern House

Delight a budding architect this Christmas with this fun-filled LEGO Creator Modern House set, which offers 3 different building options with the same set of bricks.

Kids aged 9 and up can build a luxurious 2-story beach house with a swimming pool and featuring a kitchen, living room, reading room, bedroom and shower room. Kids can then rebuild it into a stylish 3-story city building with a hot tub room and rooftop terrace or turn it into a forest cabin.

This LEGO building set offers a world of exciting play possibilities and also comes with 2 minifigures for kids to stage exciting stories in the houses.

LEGO® Art Hokusai – The Great Wave

Designed for creative adults, the LEGO Art The Great Wave building set makes for a thoughtful holiday gift for artists, art lovers and admirers of Japanese culture.

Based on Hokusai’s iconic artwork, this building set lets art lovers recreate one of the world’s most renowned prints. Featuring layers of LEGO bricks to emulate the boldness of the original piece, the meticulously detailed set has a striking 3D effect and includes a decorative tile printed with Hokusai’s signature. Once complete, it becomes a stunning piece of home décor that can be proudly displayed in any home or office.

LEGO® DC Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City™

This holiday season, adult fans of Batman™ can indulge their passion by creating this highly impressive LEGO DC Batman: The Animated Series Gotham City™ model, which contains famous details from Batman: The Animated Series and hidden action scenes.

This 4,210-piece buildable GOTHAM CITY backdrop can be mounted on a wall or stood on a surface with a flip-out stand measuring over 30 in. (76 cm) wide. It consists of 15 panels that can be removed to reveal the inside of Wayne Manor, the Batcave™ and Arkham Asylum, and the activities of numerous villains from Batman: The Animated Series.

The set also includes 4 minifigures: Batman, The Joker™, Harley Quinn™ and Catwoman™, plus a removable Batmobile™ and Batwing™.

LEGO® Icons Tiny Plants

Bring some nature into your home this Christmas with the LEGO Icons Tiny Plants home décor building set for adults.

A charming gift idea for plant lovers, this unique set lets you create an elegant, zero-maintenance floral display featuring 9 plants with flora based on arid, tropical and carnivorous species, with each one coming in a buildable, terracotta-colored plant pot.

Suitable for both new and advanced builders, it includes different models for easy, medium and advanced levels of building complexity. The LEGO Builder app also features a digital version of the building instructions included with this set.

LEGO® Ideas Vincent van Gogh – The Starry Night

Inspire a loved one with the LEGO Ideas Vincent van Gogh – The Starry Night building set for adults, which makes a great gift for art aficionados.

Based on the Dutch artist’s iconic painting, the set includes clever building techniques to mirror the swirling clouds and rolling hills of the original masterpiece, allowing art lovers to reinterpret van Gogh’s brushstrokes with bricks. It also comes with a minifigure of van Gogh, whose accessories include a paintbrush, palette and easel. Once complete, the set becomes a stunning piece of home decor that will add a touch of art magic to any room or office.

Are you shopping for people whose interests lie in science rather than arts and crafts? We’ve got you covered.

Find jaw-dropping Christmas gifts for all your loved ones, whether they go wild for STEM or are passionate about getting creative with Minecraft – there’s a LEGO® set for everyone!

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