Some parent may have done these before, but for the ones out there who are still looking for some craft ideas for your toddlers, please find them in your kitchen.
I would like to share some craft we have learnt in playgroup/kindergarten/home.
Macaroni/Penne necklace and bracelet
You Need:
1. Tubular pasta such as macaroni (straight one), penne.
2. Food coloring
3. Small type of string
- Put some macaroni/penne/other tubular pasta into seperate bowls or plastics
- Using food coloring, add different colors to each containers
- Dry the colored pasta into paper towel
- Put dried colored pasta into container and give your kids a string (wool string left over of your knitting, thread from your sewwing kits, or other small string you could think of)
Let your toddler thread the string into the colored pasta to make necklace or bracelet. Even you could use them to teach color grouping.
Note: You can also replace the pasta using straws. Just cut different colors straws.
Car box
You Need:
1. Empty box container
2. 4 Bottle lids
3. Glue
- Basically you just glue bottle lids to the box
- You can either paint it or add with other things as accesories (let your kid be imaginative).
Helicopter bottle
You need:
1. Empty plastic bottle container
2. 2 icy pole sticks
3. 2 bottle lids
4. Glue
- Put the bottle horizontal
- Glue the sticks (cross way) on body of the bottle (so it's not on the bottle neck) as propeller
- Glue bottle lids as the wheels
Paper Towel Butterfly
You need:
1. Paper towel(s)
2. Food coloring
3. Water
4. String
5. Pipet
- Put a drop of each food coloring in some bowls of water
- using the pipet, let your toddler drop some color to the paper towel (make sure you put the paper towel on top plastic placemat). Let it dry.
- Using the string, tie the colored paper towel in the middle
Cellophane and Paper Towel Butterfly
You Need:
1. Cellopane paper
2. Paper towel
3, Bottle brush
- Put the cellophane paper on top of paper towel
- Using bottle brush tie up both paper and leave some of the bottle brush as the butterfly antennas.
I have some other stuff we've tried. But I rather let you go to your kitchen and be creative. By the way, I don't think I have enough page to put them all.
But there other you could do, I find this site quite usefull:
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/toddler/
http://www.freekidcrafts.com/free_kid_craft_ideas.html
http://www.make-stuff.com/kids/index.html
(July 2006) (
