A lot of us teach first and second grade students, or even kindergarten kids. With young students, crafts can be useful for promoting engagement, learning to follow directions in English, and, of course, eating up obscene amounts of time. I know there are a million websites, etc. with craft ideas, but It can be hard to find something decent and do-able sometimes. I think it would be useful to have a dedicated crafts thread, where people can post things that have worked well for them in the past.

If you can, please also give an age range, required materials, and a time estimate for each craft activity.

I'll start the ball rolling with two things I've made with first and second grade students (very low-level kids).

1. Letter "T" tiger
age: gr. 1-2
time: ~15 minutes if they put any effort into the coloring
materials: template, color pencils, scissors, glue, pipe cleaners (optional)
I used this for the day we did the letter "t" in phonics. It's very simple -- color the parts, cut them out, and assemble them. There's a little picture in the corner to use as a guide. If you want, you can stick pipe cleaners on for whiskers.

2. Alligator visor
age: K-2 (maybe even 3)
time: ~15 minutes, but you'll have to use your time wisely since you'll need to make the headband part for the kids
materials: template, scissors, color pencils, tape or stapler, thin strips of paper for headbands
This one was a huge hit. While the kids were coloring and cutting, I went around and made them each a headband part for their visors using long strips of paper, about an inch wide. When they finished decorating and cutting out the alligator part, I had them line up so I could attach the alligator front to the paper headband.

I actually made that template myself in photoshop based on a craft idea I found online. Unfortunately, that's the only letter-based craft I've done so far... I'll add more if I find/make more. (There's a cute "A" alligator idea we may yet do... My kids love making anything with a mouth and teeth, so that they can pretend to bite each other.)

I use this site a lot for alphabet crafts:
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphabet.htm

While there aren't any actual letter representations crafts, they have cute things to do for every letter. This week we're doing E for Elephant, and I'm having them make little elephant crafts with CDs as heads.

(Thought this might belong here)
For my younger learners, I wanted to practice colors without just simply giving them a regular coloring sheet.  I found a fun activity online, it's a color-by-number with a grid, so you can't tell what the picture is until you actually color it.
I found some online (http://www.printactivities.com/HiddenPictures.html), but I thought they were a little boring, so I made some more exciting ones.
Page 1--> angry bird  Page 2--> Mario hitting a mystery block 
Page 3--> Rilakkuma (just looks like a teddy bear with a blanket) Page 4--> Hello Kitty
Hope you can use them, it's a fun/relaxing 10-15 min activity. The empty boxes next to the color name is for you & your students to identify the colors together and use as a simple guide.

*Update* added a Word version of this, but the order got mixed.
Page 1) Mario hitting a mystery block
Page 2) Rilakkuma
Page 3) Hello Kitty
Page 4) red Angry Bird

(Thought this might belong here)
For my younger learners, I wanted to practice colors without just simply giving them a regular coloring sheet.  I found a fun activity online, it's a color-by-number with a grid, so you can't tell what the picture is until you actually color it.
I found some online (http://www.printactivities.com/HiddenPictures.html), but I thought they were a little boring, so I made some more exciting ones.
Page 1--> angry bird  Page 2--> Mario hitting a mystery block 
Page 3--> Rilakkuma (just looks like a teddy bear with a blanket) Page 4--> Hello Kitty
Hope you can use them, it's a fun/relaxing 10-15 min activity. The empty boxes next to the color name is for you & your students to identify the colors together and use as a simple guide.

*Update* added a Word version of this, but the order got mixed.
Page 1) Mario hitting a mystery block
Page 2) Rilakkuma
Page 3) Hello Kitty
Page 4) red Angry Bird

Can you use for an English camp for grades 3 and 4 students, or are they slightly outgrown for this one?