Children adore medals, and crafting gold ones inspired by those worn by Olympians will leave your kids proudly displaying them. Whether you make them from clay or aluminum lids, or create edible versions with Oreos, you and your children will enjoy making them as a team. These medals would also be an excellent activity for an Olympic-themed kids’ party.
Enjoy creating these medals, then get set for the games to start!
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Reach for Gold: Olympic Medal Craft
Tap into your Olympic enthusiasm with this golden medal project. Children will be thrilled to wear the clay medal they made themselves. Follow the instructions for this activity and enjoy crafting together.
Reach for Gold: Olympic Medal Craft from Parents.com
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Gold Medal Made from an Aluminum Lid
Keep aluminum lids, coat them with gold spray paint, add a ribbon and a few stickers, and you have an attractive medal. With this project, everyone gets to be a champion!
Aluminum Cover Gold Award from Sturdy For Common Things
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Handmade Glittering Olympic Medals
Celebrate your children with these bronze, silver, and gold medals. Their sparkle makes them even more special. Plus, creating these medals is lots of fun.
Handmade Glittering Olympic Medals from Homemade Ginger
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Sculpting Clay Olympic Medals
These Olympic gold medals are crafted from baking-soda modeling clay. Your children will enjoy exploring this project and wearing what they create.
Sculpting Clay Olympic Medals from I Can Teach My Child
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Create a Gold Medal
Don’t these golden medals appear incredibly official? Take a look at this fantastic Olympic craft!
Create a Golden Medal from Paging Supermom
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Edible Oreo Olympic Medals
Enjoy your gold medal and eat it as well! Oreos and Fruit by the Foot are the ideal ingredients for creating these tasty edible golden medals.
Edible Oreo Olympic Medals from The Exploring Family
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Medal with Olympic Rings
Although this medal isn’t edible, Fruit Loops create the rings in various colors. Young children can easily assist with this simple project. They’ll enjoy attaching the “Olympic rings” to the cardstock.
Olympic Ring Medal from Honey & Lime
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Homemade Olympic Medals
Using only cardboard, metallic paint, puffy paint, and ribbon, you can easily create gold, silver, and bronze medals for children to wear as they cheer for their favorite champion or take part in their own games.
Homemade Olympic Medals for the Champions of Tomorrow from Project Nursery
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Olympic Medals Made from Plastic Lids
Hold onto plastic lids—the tops from oatmeal containers are ideal for this craft. Trace the lid onto colored paper, cut out the circle, and attach it to the lid with glue; afterward, add the ribbon. Mark the paper with first-, second-, and third-place designs to finish the medals.
Olympic Medals from Plastic Lids from Artful Parent
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Sparkly DIY Olympic Medals
Gold-colored glitter spray paint on canning lids, paired with red, white, and blue ribbon, creates adorable and shimmering gold medals. You can just as easily use silver or bronze spray paint, giving you a complete set of Olympic medals ready to go.
Sparkly DIY Olympic Medals from U-Create Crafts
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Easy and Enjoyable Olympic Medals
You may already have everything required to craft these medals. The project calls for cardboard, aluminum foil, paint, a permanent marker for embellishments, and ribbon.
Easy and Enjoyable Olympic Medals from CBC Parents
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Olympic Medals Made from Paper Plates
Paper plates, glitter paint, and ribbon are all you need to create these medals. They are incredibly simple to make! Keep a broad paintbrush nearby, since this craft is well suited to toddlers.