The development of the times requires more construction talents with "craftsman spirit". Colleges and universities are the main training bases for construction talents. Whether college students establish "craftsman spirit" reflects the effectiveness of ideological and political education in colleges and universities in the new era, and to a certain extent, reflects whether the talent training mechanism of colleges and universities meets the development requirements of the times. The ideological and political education in colleges and universities undertakes the educational task of standardizing behavior, cultivating morality and encouraging progress, which is consistent with the connotation of craftsman spirit. The article believes that the ideological and political education of college students is an important position to cultivate the craftsman spirit. The organic integration and connection of the craftsman spirit and the ideological and political education of college students is of far-reaching significance in expanding the space of the ideological and political education of college students, cultivating and practicing the socialist core values, improving the ideological and political education function of colleges and universities, and improving the comprehensive quality of college students.