22 Bus Crafts for Kids To Enhance Their Creativity

School buses are more than just rides, they are the spark for amazing crafts!

Get ready to fuel your child’s imagination with some of our favorite school bus-themed craft ideas we’ve found.

Perfect for little hands, these fun activities will build excitement for school while boosting their fine motor skills and creativity.

Let’s turn those yellow vehicles into inspiration!

Easy Bus Crafts For Your Kids

I would suggest that these few bus crafts will be very fun and exciting. You can do with your kids at home. 

Washi Tape Bus Craft

I just love how this Washi Tape Bus Craft lets our little ones create their own cheerful school bus without any of the usual mess.

My son absolutely enjoys carefully peeling and sticking that colorful washi tape – it’s been fantastic for helping him develop his fine motor skills and get those little hands working together.

And the best part is seeing his unique artistic vision come to life on paper, bus by colorful strips.

Paper Plate Bus Craft

As a parent, I’ve found this Paper Plate Bus Craft to be just the ticket for some wonderfully creative time with my child. It’s such a simple yet engaging way for them to craft their very own iconic school bus.

Watching my son carefully painting, practicing their cutting skills (with those super safe scissors, of course!), and precisely gluing those paper plate pieces has been fantastic for developing their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, all while their own unique artistic vision comes cheerfully to life.

School Bus Addition Craft

This School Bus Addition Craft is such a clever way to combine learning and fun for your kids. Not only do they get to create their own colorful school bus, but they also get to practice their addition skills in a hands-on way using those bright buttons.

Placing the buttons to solve the equation makes learning visual and interactive, turning math practice into an engaging craft activity.

Milk carton school bus craft

As a curious parent always looking for ways to be both creative and resourceful, I think this Milk Carton School Bus Craft is just fantastic.

Turning an ordinary milk carton into a cheerful school bus has not only been a blast for my child but has also been a great opportunity to teach them about the importance of reusing materials.

Watching them carefully cutting, folding, and gluing the cardboard, and then adding all those cute little details, has been a wonderful way to boost their fine motor skills and spatial reasoning.

Candy Stick Bus Craft

This Candy Stick Bus Craft is such a fun and simple project for children. Gluing those colorful candy sticks together to create a cheerful school bus is a fantastic way to develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Plus, they get to personalize their bus with those adorable little passengers, sparking their creativity and storytelling.

Water Bottle School Bus Craft

This Water Bottle School Bus Craft is such a clever and eco-friendly activity for your kids. Turning a simple water bottle into a fun school bus is a fantastic way to teach them about recycling while unleashing their creativity.

Cutting, painting, and sticking on those details helps develop their fine motor skills and spatial reasoning, all while they’re creating their very own unique school bus.

School Bus Counting Cards

I designed these fun and engaging School Bus Counting Cards for my 3 year old daughter to practice numbers.

Each card features a cheerful school bus and a number from 1 to 10, with corresponding dots to help visualize the quantity.

Whether she is tracing the numbers with a finger or a pencil or counting the dots, these cards make early math skills interactive and enjoyable.

Egg Carton School Bus Craft

This Egg Carton School Bus Craft is such a creative and resourceful activity for your kids, turning an ordinary egg carton into a cheerful school bus.

When we do this craft in our activity class, kids love and enjoy the whole process.

Cutting, painting that bright yellow, and adding those adorable little passengers help develop their fine motor skills and spatial reasoning.

Bus Number Matching Clip Cards

My daughter loves these number cards. These Bus Number Matching Clip Cards are such a fun and interactive way to practice number recognition with your little one.

Using those colorful clothespins to clip onto the number that matches the count of children on the bus makes learning active and engaging.

It’s a fantastic way to reinforce counting skills and number identification playfully.

Puffy Paint School Bus Craft

We often do this kind of messy activities at home. Both my kids and I love puffy painting.

This Puffy Paint School Bus Craft is such a fun and sensory-rich activity for our little artist.

Creating that textured, three-dimensional school bus with puffy paint is not only visually exciting but also a fantastic tactile experience.

School Bus Beginning Sounds

These School Bus Beginning Sounds cards are such a clever and engaging way to work on phonics with your little one.

Each cheerful school bus features a letter and several pictures inside. Identifying the pictures that start with the featured letter’s sound makes learning about beginning sounds interactive and fun.

Footprint Bus Craft

This Footprint Bus Craft is such a wonderfully unique and memorable activity for your little one. Turning their own footprint into a cheerful school bus is not only super fun but also creates a precious keepsake.

Squishing their foot in the paint and then pressing it onto the paper is a fantastic sensory experience, and then adding those details like windows and wheels helps develop their creativity and fine motor skills.

Bus Alphabet Matching

I specially designed this activity for my 3 years old daughter and she loves this. This Bus Alphabet Matching activity is such a fun and engaging way to learn uppercase and lowercase letters for children.

Matching the cut-out letter cards to the letters on the cheerful school bus windows makes learning the alphabet interactive and visually appealing.

Painted Newspaper Bus Craft

This Painted Newspaper Bus Craft is such a creative and resourceful activity for 7 years to 9 years old kids. Turning old newspapers into a textured school bus and then adding that bright yellow paint brings a unique artistic flair to their creation.

Tearing and gluing the newspaper pieces helps develop their fine motor skills, and the painting adds a wonderful element of self-expression.

Bus Theme Find & Clip Letter

This Bus Theme Find & Clip Letter activity is such a fun and interactive way for 4 years to 6 years old kids to reinforce their letter recognition.

The cheerful school bus has uppercase letters along the top and lowercase letters along the side.

Using those colorful clothespins to clip onto the matching uppercase letter for the lowercase letter inside the bus window makes learning active and engaging.

Tissue Paper School Bus Craft

This Tissue Paper School Bus Craft is such a fun and tactile art project for your toddlers.

Crumpling and gluing those colorful pieces of tissue paper onto the school bus outline is a wonderful way to develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

School Bus collage

This School Bus Collage is such a fun and creative way for your kids.

Tearing and gluing those colorful pieces of paper to create their own unique school bus is a fantastic activity for developing their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

It’s a wonderfully tactile and visually engaging project.

School Bus Name Practice

These School Bus Name Practice cards are such a personalized and engaging way for your child to work on recognizing and writing their name.

Each cheerful school bus has spaces for the letters of their name. Whether they’re tracing the letters, using letter tiles, or writing them in, this activity makes name recognition interactive and fun.

Paper School Bus Craft

This Paper School Bus Craft is such a fun and engaging 3D project for your kids.

Folding, cutting, and gluing the paper to create their very own stand-up school bus is a fantastic way to develop their spatial reasoning and fine motor skills.

They’ll feel a real sense of accomplishment seeing their flat paper transform into a three-dimensional vehicle ready for imaginative play.

Shape Bus craft

This Shape Bus Craft is such a clever and educational activity for your kids.

Turning geometric shapes like triangles, hexagons, and rectangles into the different parts of a school bus is a fantastic way to reinforce shape recognition in a fun and hands-on way.

Gluing the shapes onto the bus template also helps develop their fine motor skills and spatial reasoning.

Photo Bus Craft

This Photo Bus Craft is such a personal and adorable way for your little one to celebrate their school journey.

Incorporating their own picture into the school bus window makes it extra special and helps them feel connected to the craft.

Handprint School Bus Craft

This Handprint School Bus Craft is such a sweet and personal way for your little one to create their own school bus. Using their handprints to form the top of the bus makes it a unique and memorable keepsake.

Tracing, cutting, and gluing the different parts together helps develop their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, all while they’re creating a fun reminder of their school days.

Conclusion

My kids and I have done these craft activities together to teach them about the buses in a fun and exciting way. This also helped him improve various skills while enjoying the adventure and excitement that the activities provided. 

In addition to all of it, he could also learn more about this very common huge vehicle that all of us use almost every day. I hope you enjoyed reading the above list of craft activities that I have listed in this blog post. 

Please leave a comment below if you love our activities. I would love to hear from you!