Do It Yourself

Urban Arts and Crafts is a creative shop offering offbeat art materials and unique courses ranging from jewelry making to crochet. You can learn to make a metal stamped mother’s necklace or a new ring. Take up knitting or crocheting and make a new blanket for Baby or scarf for Mom. Delight in the high quality materials at this top-of-the-line creative inspiration store.

Create family keepsakes at Paint, Glaze and Fire, Ceramics Cafe and more paint-your-own pottery shops. Patrons select and paint their own ceramic masterpieces—anything from piggy banks to plates, mugs to picture frames and many holiday pieces, as well.

Kookiedoodle Crafts in Downtown Overland Park is a one-of-a-kind arts and crafts shop were children purchase kits and make masterpieces all within the store walls—no mess at home, only a take-home masterpiece. Kids will enjoy painting, felt pillow projects, wooden crafts and more.

Our readers always rate Kaleidoscope as one of the best destinations in Kansas City. Imaginations know no limit as kids create jigsaw puzzles, glow-in-the-dark art, crowns and more at this hands-on art center.

BYOB paint-your-own-canvas shops are one of the newest trends across the city, each offering diverse calendars with a variety of masterpieces you can create following simple step-by-step instructions.