Saturday, 04 April 2009
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Arts & Crafts With the Kids!
by Mama Ladybug I thought I'd share a fun idea I had... making puppets is fun, and when you have the right arts & crafts materials, it can be pretty fun for kids to create a little friend.
For Bella's mini puppet people, we used construction paper, plastic eyes, colored mini cotton balls, a glue stick, scissors, over-sized colored popsicle sticks, and crayons & markers. Let the kids draw whatever they think of, flowers, people, stop signs, etc. Here was our finished product:
What cute craft activities do you have for your kids?
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My kids grandparents live in another state. We went and bought giant rolls of paper and traced the kids laying down, arms stretched out. The kids decorated their bodies and faces with sparkles, markers, etc. We then sent their life-sized "hugs" in the mail.
I don't have any kids. When I was a kid, i used to do lots of origami (paper folding). I think it's economic, fun, and really practice your brain and hand.
I also totally recommend making sock puppets...a great use for all of those lonely socks whose partners got lost in the wash. Have your kids paint them with pain mixed with glue so that they can stick lots of fun stuff on their puppets!
At camp, collages are always a hit. We usually use pictures and words from magazines and let them add whatever other craft materials they can find around the Craft Shack. It can be really deep for the older kids, a way to express their innermost selves, or it can be fun for the younger ones to pick out animals, flowers, and cars that they like. When I was little, my mom would give me sheets of stickers (from the dollar section of the craft store) and let me make a sticker collage.
For some reason, they also love making warm fuzzies at camp.
Oooh! I love arts and crafts, it's one of the best things that my mom did with our siblings and I. I remember making masks and fish out of paper plates, making picture frames out of popsicle sticks, collages, and my absolute favorite: dipping a marble in paint and then rolling that marble over paper. (the paper would be set in somewhat of a box, preventing any big messes.)
SHRINKY DINK; if you haven't heard of it, go to your local Michaels or other craft store and buy some. It's this stuff that you can draw on and color and then it'll shrink into a hard plastic mini edition of what you just drew. you can also trace things like I do since I can't draw a straight line wiht a ruler lol. So you can make magnets, which I did, or put holes in it before you shrink it and then they're buttons, all kinds of stuff, I'm PRO shrinky dink :)
@Kshorkey@xanga - you don't even have to buy the plastic... any of those hard plastics you get food in... like the tops of cake boxes from a bakery can be used for srinky dink! I loved doing that as a kid. (and still do)
When I was young my grandmother taught me how to crochet and it's stuck ever since.My mom also taught me to sew at 5... I feel it's a part of my heritage and I'll always remember it.