Learn all about the beautiful country of Hungary with these fun Hungary crafts for kids! Let’s explore Hungarian art, culture, traditions and more!

Would you like to live in a city named ‘Pest’? Well, it certainly sounds unpleasant! Now, what if ‘Pest’ joined hands with another city named ‘Buda’ and became a new city named Budapest? Would you live there?

I certainly would! Budapest is the capital city of Hungary, and is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with the European Union’s longest river, the Danube, running right in the middle of it. And it’s not just the city, the country itself is amazing!

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Fun Facts about Hungary:

Hungarians call their country Magyarország
It is a landlocked European country, its neighbours being Slovakia, Austria, Ukraine, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia
Hungary held its first democratic elections as recently as 1990, although its history goes back as far as 895
The world’s largest biologically active thermal lake is in Hungary
Hungary’s Parliament Building has 88 pounds of gold built into it
The Hungarian alphabet has 44 letters, while the English alphabet has just 26

Hungary is so cool that it has three national days – the first on 15th March, the second on 20th August and the third on 23rd October. So whichever one you’re celebrating, we’ve got some lovely Hungary crafts for kids that you can try!

15 Beautiful Hungary Crafts for Kids

1. Easy Origami Tulip Craft for Kids

Let’s begin our list of Hungary crafts for kids with a pretty craft to celebrate Hungary’s national flower, the Hungarian tulip, also known as Tulipa hungarica. This flower grows by the Danube gorge, and while most blooms are yellow, you can make this craft in any color!

2. Hungary National Flag Origami Craft

The Hungarian national flag is a tricolor, and it’s known as Piros-fehér-zöld in Hungarian. This translates into Red-White-Green, which are the colors of the flag. The red represents strength, the white indicates loyalty and green is for hope and prosperity. MaySari Crafts shows us how to create the Hungarian tricolor using Origami.

3. Hungarian Folk Dress Paper Craft

Hungarian women traditionally have three kinds of clothing – one for daily life, one for dances and festivals, and one for church. The church outfits are usually the most elaborate and expensive ones, and no one would dare ruin them by wearing them for any other occasion! Some women also wear beautiful headdresses with their outfits. DLTK Kids gives us a pretty Hungarian folk dress craft that features Hungarian colors and floral embroidery.

4. Hungarian Insect Yard Art Project

Pécs is a city in Hungary that has many museums, and the folks at Art Achieve even found a yard that featured insect art made from clay and wire! They’ve tried to recreate that in this fun and colorful art project that kids will love making.

5. Hungarian Watercolor Art Project

If you’re looking for art projects in our list of Hungary crafts for kids, check out this one from Hungarian Living, where they show us how to create a simple watercolor in a Hungarian floral style. It uses bright colors and motifs taht are traditionally found in Hungarian folk art.

6. Hungarian Folk Hen Embroidery Project

Hungarians take their folk art seriously, and it is intimately connected to their daily lives. As a result, folk art depicts scenes and symbols from nature, including plants, birds and animals. Hatch creates a cute hen felt craft here, with embroidery done in a Hungarian style and colors of the Hungarian flag.

7. Hungarian Redwork Embroidery Free Pattern

Every part of Hungary has its own embroidery style and while some of it uses lots of colors, some use a single color against a neutral background. This color could be red or blue, and it’s usually done on thick linen fabric. Needle ‘n Thread shows us an example of Hungarian redwork embroidery, using red thread on an off-white fabric.

8. Paper Bag Turul Craft

This craft from DLTK Kids features a Turul, a falcon-like bird from Hungarian mythology. The story begins with Emese, the daughter of a Hungarian Duke. When she was pregnant, the Turul appeared in her dream and told her that her child would be the head of a dynasty of great kings. Soon after, Emese gave birth to a son named Álmos, who went on to become the first Grand Prince of the Hungarian royal house of Árpád, the dynasty that founded the Hungarian Kingdom. Since then, it has become customary for women to have Turul symbols around, especially during childbirth.

9. Folk Art Wooden Heart Ornaments

We can’t move through our list of Hungary crafts for kids without talking about Christmas ornaments! Heart-shaped ornaments are common in Hungary during the holidays, and Cuckoo4Design shows us how to make one out of a wooden heart. The artwork is inspired by the Matyo style of embroidery, which uses bright silk thread on a black background.

10. Traditional Hungarian Wax-Resist Egg Decoration

Hungary has some interesting Easter traditions, like this one, where unmarried women and girls offer available young men colorful, painted eggs along with cookies and drinks. Ildiko Fekete shows us how Hungarians traditionally color their eggs – dyeing and painting are the main techniques. Beeswax is used to make the patterns on the egg, which is later scraped off with a knife.

11. DIY Rubik’s Cube Ornament

Did you know that the Rubik’s Cube was invented by a Hungarian? It was created by an architecture professor named Ernő Rubik in 1974 when he was trying to solve a problem of moving individual parts without breaking up the entire structure. The first time he scrambled the cube and tried to solve it, it took him a month! The Rubik’s Cube went on to become the world’s bestselling puzzle game, selling over 500 million cubes worldwide. Crafting Cheerfully shows us how to create a little Rubik’s cube ornament that would make a great gift for a puzzle-lover!

12. DIY Foam Hungarian Kokárda

Maria O Kusztor Designs has a video that shows us how to make a Hungarian cockade to wear on any of Hungary’s national days. Cockades originated in France and the United Kingdom, and were generally worn on a hat. However, Hungarians wear them on their jackets or coats. The Hungarian cockade generally has a circle and two small straps, in the colors of the national flag.

13. Crayon Tinted Hungarian Ornament

Christmas in Hungary begins on 6th December, on St. Nicholas Day. Kids leave their shoes on their windowsills at night, waiting for St. Nicholas or Mikulás to put in little gifts or candy. 13th December is known as Luca Day, which is associated with witches, spirits and supernatural elements. Hungarians decorate their trees with ornaments made of traditional materials like hand-blown glass, straw or felt. Hungarian Living shows us how to make a pretty ornament out of wooden slices, and they look amazing!

14. Water Polo Perler Bead Patterns

Hungary loves its sports, especially water polo, which is the country’s national game. Hungary is the world champion in water polo, with 15 Olympic, 10 World Championship, 5 FINA World League, 8 FINA World Cup and 21 European Championship medals. Now that you know how serious they are about their water polo, it’s time to make water polo-themed Hungary crafts for kids, like this one from That Kids Craft Site!

15. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Coloring Page

Drawn2bCreative brings us a coloring page that features Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Elizabeth was born as a princess of the Kingdom of Hungary and was married and widowed at a young age. After her husband’s death, she built a hospital and dedicated herself to caring for the sick. Elizabeth was very generous, even giving away her clothes and jewelry. She died at the age of 24 and was officially recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church 4 years later. Today, she is considered the patron saint of beggars, homeless people and charities, and the day of her death, 17th November, is observed as the Feast of St. Elizabeth.

We hope these Hungary crafts for kids will help them learn a little more about this beautiful country that doesn’t get a lot of attention compared to other countries in the same continent. They’ve got some gorgeous arts and crafts, and have given us some talented scientists and artists. Even the humble ballpoint pen you use every day was invented in Hungary!

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