10 Show-and-Tell Crafts for Kids

Without a doubt, your kids have been collecting tons of souvenirs and mementos from family vacations. Set up a day for crafting and send the little ones back to school with summer keepsakes they'll be proud to show off. 

Create a mini vacation-in-a-jar with small souvenirs, photographs, and whatever else your child wants to keep. They can add and remove items whenever they feel like changing it up.

Help kids craft a bracelet made of treasures found outside during hikes and walks on the beach so they can then wear (and share) their adventures with friends.

Kids can combine maps leftover from vacation and treasures found on the beach to make an imaginative diorama.

All you need is some glue and varying sizes of seashells to help kids create these cute critters.

With paint, glue, and clay, kids can turn the stones they've collected into animals, people, or objects.

Here's a simple way for kids to store their small-item collections: Accordion-fold a strip of paper, and glue the first and last pages to the inside of a box's lid and bottom. Keep some pages empty so the collection can grow.

Kids can create mini albums within a larger scrapbook, each devoted to mini-stories like favorite camp activities or meeting new friends. Stiff paper covers along with paper spines and corners give them a fancy hardcover feel. The book on top has a closure made with a paper fastener and string.

Instead of sorting through piles of memorabilia after a trip, try this shortcut: Pack a hole punch and a loose-leaf ring so that your child can string together maps, postcards, and other paper souvenirs collected on the road. Make a cover by affixing a sticker to the front and rubber-stamping a title on top.