Crafts for Christmas Do Not Have to be Difficult: 2 Simple Crafts for Kids
Christmas is a holiday where all kinds of kids crafts are created at home and in the school environment.
Crafts for kids, however should be an activity that should bring fun and excitement to children’s activities aside from adding a bonding to the adults that are doing the projects with them.
Educational arts and crafts is a way of doing crafts with children where they are not blindly copying the adults model but are creating things that they are capable of creating at their own developmental level.
When children create at their own level a number of things occur.
It creates a great feeling about themselves, as who can feel good about crafts projects that are copycat models of someone else’s. Crafts creations done by children that they know is their own makes their self image soar.
Another wonderful advantage to educational arts and crafts over tradtional arts and crafts is the creativity it allows.
A real stifling of creativity is when an adult makes a project and expects the child to copy it.
There are a few varied kinds of art activites that are part of educational art.
There is the cafeteria style that allows children to choose materials to work with, there is process only art where the process is what counts along with a few more.
The point of it is that all of the crafts under educational arts and crafts should be age appropriate, and allow for freedom of creation and expression.
Below you will find two very economical, and easy to make Christmas craft ornaments for your tree.
The first one uses plastic throwaway cups:
Using permanent markers the children can make all kinds of designs all over the cups. Have them cover the cup so that there are more designs showing them cup.
When they are done, take a cookie sheet and put the cups upside down on it and put in the over at around 350 degrees. Keep them for a few minutes as they melt slowly. You need to make sure that they are watched carefully in the oven or they will totally burn down. Remember that the cups and tray will be very hot and kids must be kept away from the activity until cool.
When they are cool, make a hole in the center and use colorful ribbon to hang as an ornament for your tree.
An innovative way of using cd’s as ornaments is the next craft.
Next thing: Add decorations and string them up.
There are many, many methods that can be used to decorate the cd’s.
You can color with permanent markers, glue and glitter them, collage over them, decoupage over them, and decorate them with whatever shiny, decorative materials you can find.
Once they are done, get some pretty ribbon and hang them from your tree.
If you want to see what a crafts acitivity done in the cafeteria style is like then check out this Hanukkah Crafts collage
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