Sparking Imagination and Creativity
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Contents:
1.Welcome from Rachel
2.Updates at create-kids-crafts.com
3.Crafts for January
4.Tips and Quotes
5.Recommended craft web sites
1. Welcome from Rachel!
Happy 2010 soon to you! Hope this New Year brings you hopes for a bright future, affection and love, peace for the heart, prosperity that’s unlimited and year-round fun. Here are some crafts for your preschoolers to help celebrate the New Year. For more preschool winter and New Year's crafts visit my new website
www.discover-preschool-activities.com
If you haven't done so yet, have a look at my
Playdough book
for some fun family time together with your kids.
2. Updates at create-kids-crafts.com
For more winter and New Year's craft ideas for kids please visit www.create-kids-crafts.com and www.discover-preschool-activities.com
1.Formaula Banks
Objectives:
To build eye-hand coordination and to have fun. This is a money bank for your kids to put coins in. Now they can start to save money for college, a special gift or charity.
What You Need:
1 Powder formula can(empty)
30 Misc stickers
1 Exacto knife or scissor
What You Do:
1.Cut a slit in the lid of the formula can large enough to fit a quarter in.
2.Remove outer label from formula can and clean off glue as best you can.
3.Give child can and stickers.
4.Let your child design their own bank by placing stickers all over the can.
5.hen they are done, put top on can.
2.New Year's Party Hats
These hats can be used as a craft at your New Years theme or you can print the pattern out smaller and use them on your table as place setting. Just print the name of each person who attends on the back of the hat.
What you will need: Bright colors of card stock, New Years confetti, glue or tape, glitter paints, and scissors.
What to do:
1. Roll your paper into a cone shape. Cut off the extras paper at the bottom of the cone shape to make it rounded. Use your first hat as a pattern to cut out more hats from different colors of paper.
2. Cut out pretty shapes to glue onto the top of the hats or use ribbon and other decorative objects.
3. Glue the hats together and then glue on sequins or use glitter paint to decorate them.
3.Chinese New Year Lantern
A fun paper lantern to decorate your home for Chinese New Year. Make many lanterns of different colors or decorations and hang them around your home.
What you'll need:
Construction paper
Scissors
Tape
Stapler
Ruler
Pencil
Glue, glitter, sequins, if desired to decorate your lantern
How to make it:
1..Use your ruler to measure and cut one inch off the short end of your paper. Set aside to use as the handle.
2.Fold your paper in half lengthwise.
3.Draw a line one inch from the end of the long edge of the paper opposite the folded edge. This will be the line where you stop cutting.
4.Measure and mark lines one inch apart starting at the folded edge and moving towards the "stop cutting" line.
5.Cut on the marked lines up to the "stop cutting" line.
6.Unfold the paper.
7.Re-crease the paper in the opposite direction. This will hide any pencil marks.
8.Match the long edges together on the lantern and use tape to hold it in place.
9.Staple the handle to the top of the lantern. Make as many lanterns as you wish and display them around your home.
10.If you wish, add glue, glitter, sequins or other things to decorate your lanterns.
4. Tips and Quotes
Tips:
Have Fun with Kids Crafts!
Crafting with your kids is a really special time for both of you. You get to pass on a new skill or share with them something that you love to do and they get to make things they enjoy and pass on the love of crafting to the next generation.
The best advice for crafting with kids is to try to remember how much fun you had as a kid raiding your mother’s craft area. You got messy and did things you probably weren’t supposed to do and had a whole lot of fun.
Bring that attitude of play to your craft time with your kids and you will all have a great time and make some wonderful things (as well as wonderful memories).
Quote:
”Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."
Garrison Keillor
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