Stamping: Easy Craft For Younger Kids
Smaller hands need larger crafts because they don’t have the fine motor skills of children who are older. Allow them to work with hands-on materials such as chunky crayons and large sheets of paper. If you allow them to start using scissors, you’ll want them to have safety scissors which will make injuring themselves much harder to do.
Here’s one craft project that the little ones will enjoy to the fullest!
Paint Stamping
This will require adult supervision but it can be a lot of fun for your child who needs larger tools to work with: Make stamps to paint with using common garden potatoes.
Let your child decide what type of stamp they would like. Cut a potato in half to determine which size of design your child can use. You can make chunky designs such as apples, leaves, or the sun. Of course, Mom or Dad will have to cut out the designs because knives aren’t safe for little hands.
Cover the table with newspaper to cut down on the amount of mess that’s made. Then put child-safe finger paints into a tray or Styrofoam plate, but don’t use too much at one time. Have the child press the potato into the paint and then firmly onto a piece of paper. Depending upon the amount of paint, they may be able to make more than one impression. They can then change the paint color and keep making impressions. If the potato becomes overly saturated or begins to break down, Mom or Dad can cut that part of the potato off and make an entirely new design.
If you want other options to use as a stamp for painting, why not use a rubber eraser, cork board, or cardboard as the medium for the stamp base? Of course, the size of the stamp base you use will determine the size of the design your child can make. Keep a damp sponge near your child’s work area while stamping so they can keep the mess down and clean off the stamp between colors.
Jan 05, 2010 | crafts
