Project Materials and More Craft Ideas
Little hands love to spend time making things, more than just a mess in the house. In fact, if your children love crafts, you may be wondering how to keep them craft happy throughout the year.
What types of supplies do you need? That’s entirely up to you. You could get finger paints, clay, cotton balls, crayons, scissors, glue, glue sticks, markers, and colored pencils. You may also want to include various types of paper, stickers, glitter, or whatever supplies you need for a particular craft.
Search in magazines or online to find instructions for different crafts as well as a list of supplies your child will need. In fact, the internet is a wealth of information where you can find nearly any craft you or your children might like.
A few websites to check out for project materials
1. KraftyKids.com
2. Mr. Art
3. Fabric.com Coupon Corner
Crafts are for ANY age
Our most vivid childhood memories consist of the times when we created pretty things with our families. Your kids can enjoy the same privilege and create family memories to last a lifetime. Twenty years down the road and they will be recounting tales of painting a doghouse or garden rocks and sharing the memories with their own kids.
Childhood is the time to make kids more aware of family. The truth is, memories are priceless things that your kids will carry for the rest of their lives.
In fact, we can even say that family memories are what make a person who he is.
It doesn’t matter what age your children are, there are crafts that toddlers can enjoy as well as teenagers and every age in between. Of course, for some crafts you’ll want to stick close by to supervise, but many crafts can be done without adult supervision. Be sure to buy safety scissors and other crafts materials that are safe for younger children.
Sep 29, 2009 | crafts, family traditions
Fall and the Trick or Treat season offer so many choices for family members to spend quality time together. Here are just a few ideas.
Visit A Local Pumpkin Farmstead.
Throughout the month of October, pumpkin suppliers usually have fairs like live music, hayrides, and crafts, not to mention the opportunity to hand select your very personal pumpkin right off the plant.
Pumpkin Painting
Paint your halloween pumpkins instead of carving them. Carving pumpkins is a great hobby during Halloween, but this can be dangerous to small kids. This is great for kids who want to celebrate the Halloween like adults safely. If you want to learn more about Pumpkin Painting and how your kids can enjoy this unique seasonal hobby, go to EZPumpkinPainting
Create an Eerie Halloween Record Together.
Is there a graveyard nearby? Why not make a movie as a family while you’re all in your scary halloween costumes? You can roleplay as your characters and create a story from your imagination.
Take a video of mom or grandma cooking creepy Halloween cookies or Grandpa drinking greenish looking witch’s brew (it’s just lemonade with green food coloring). Capture the moment when the youngest member of the family dresses as a goblin and tries to feed a piece of macabre heart (cookies wrapped in blood-red icing) to his trusty demon hound (your pet dog in his own costume).
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This is a great hobby to put together an enduring home ritual. The entire family will get to decide on the characters, now and then making non-living things like pumpkins and candy corn come alive. Once you create the personas, the background and the narrative, you will be flabbergasted how much each family member wishes to play a part in the legend. Set aside your annual account in a DVD, CD or a folder and read or view the homemade videos or stories from previous years. It’s a remarkable memory.
Sep 25, 2009 | Growing Up Stories, Sentimental Hobbies, family traditions
For many parents, passing their family’s traditions along to their children is extremely important. It’s a vital part of who you are as people and you strive to become active participants in your children’s cultural growth. The best way to teach kids how to value tradition is to first teach them how each holiday is celebrated.
However, culture and tradition are often difficult to explain to the young ones so school teachers and parents can help make these explanations more clear by making holiday crafts with the kids. Teaching a lesson while the kids are engaged in making the craft is usually easier than talking to a group of children who just want to play.
• Developing an Artsy Lifestyle
Art is not just for small kids. Just because a child grows older doesn’t mean crafts have to disappear from their lives.
Crafting is a way to create something from scratch or to explore an art form more deeply. With kids being so into video games, iPods, and cell phones nowadays, crafting is a way to relax and express who they are as a person. And, you’ll be glad to know that being ‘artsy’ is something that they can pass on to the next generation.
Can you imagine your great-grandchildren and their children creating mementos and scrapbooks around stories that originated from YOU? It’s an amazing feeling and you can do something to start the Artsy lifestyle that your kids will keep forever.
Sep 24, 2009 | crafts, family traditions
