Pre-schooler Craft Projects

RE: Pre-schooler Craft Projects Post by Charl3n (2) | (10/11/2007) Contact Make your own Pond: Get a cheese triangle box (We get Dairy Lea triangles here) and use one side of it. Any other circular flat carton will do. Cut a circle of blue paper to fit inside for water. Cut thin strips of wavy green paper for pond weed. Cut out pictures of fish. Let the child glue the blue paper in the box. Glue just the end of the green strips on the blue, so it sticks up like weed. Glue the fish to the blue paper. Very small fish can be glued to the weed. did this for the kids in our Parent and toddler group. I had all the pieces ready cut out and gave them each a box, which they coloured in with wax chubby crayons. Then they glued it all together and were delighted with their ponds.I found sone tiny paper stickers of seahorses so our ponds all had seahorses in them. The kids range from 9 months to 3 years old. RE: Pre-schooler Craft Projects Post by Charl3n (2) | (10/11/2007) Contact Make your own Breakfast: Get a cheese triangle box (We get Dairy Lea triangles here) and use one side of it. Any other circular flat carton will do. Cut pictures of eggs, bacon etc out of magazines. I printed pictures off my computer, and there was great hilarity when they discovered one of the 'sausages' had a bite out if it. Cut a strip of card for a handle. Let the children glue the handle on the edge, and the food inside. Because we cook with gas in England I cut triangles of red and yellow crepe, you could use tissue, and glued them underneath the box round the edge for the flames. I did this for the kids in our Parent and toddler group. I had all the pieces ready cut out and gave them each a box, which they coloured in with wax chubby crayons. Then they glued it all together and ended up with a frying pan full of breakfast and they absolutely loved it. They range from 9 months to 3 years old. RE: Pre-schooler Craft Projects Post by LizCar (40) | (08/23/2005) Contact I've heard you could finger paint with pudding(different flavors, or colored with food coloring), but would this teach the younger ones that paint is edible? RE: Pre-schooler Craft Projects Post By Lorelai Gilmore (Guest Post) (05/14/2005) that is pretty cool and all but another cool idea is for mothers day or any type ofday you cold let them decorate a pot and by like some impationts(flowers) and plant it in the pot for any time thing. RE: Pre-schooler Craft Projects Post By madison (Guest Post) (04/17/2005) I let my kids use shaving cream on the formica table and the picnic table with a vinyl taple over, draw pictures, practice writing names, it dries quick and is an easier than expected clean up, buy the cheap stuff, RE: Pre-schooler Craft Projects Post By suzi homemaker (Guest Post) (04/15/2005) I have a daycare in my home and one project we did this week was a spring tree. Paint the child's hand and inside of arm up to the elbow with brown paint. Then have them lay their arm and hand down on white paper with fingers spread wide. The arm is the tree trunk and the fingers are the branches. We popped popcorn and glued onto the tree to make a Bradford Pear tree. You could also color the popcorn by placing in a ziploc with paint and shaking. They came out very pretty. We used crumpled up tissue paper (tiny pieces) for the leaves. RE: Pre-schooler Craft Projects Post By Gina (Guest Post) (04/15/2005) Take a pinecone, spread peanut butter on it, then roll it in bird seed. Hang it in a tree with some string. Kids love to watch the birds eat off their birdfeeder!