jennls

My daughter is three is into arts and crafts and I was wondering what supplies i should have on hand? I have markers,crayons,colored pencils,constuction paper and glue. Also any websites that would give me some ideas on what to do since I'm art and crafts challanged. Thanks

blackant

Hello,

my daughter is also 3 and loves crafts, i have the same things you do but i also find that she likes things like feathers( the colored ones), and die cuts and stickers, and even glitter( with my help) she loves to glue things onto paper. i have some of those foam die cuts, and pom pom things, and maybe even some cotten balls or some popsicle sticks. and if you dont want to use actual glitter maybe you could get some glitter glue and maybe some googly eyes,she has a ball with it all. I did a search for some craft sites because i lost all my links so i was looking as well and thought i would share my search with you. I hope this has helped you!


http://directory.google.com/Top/Kids...afts/?pid=elnk

Electric Chameleon

Okay, I have thought about it and checked my art supplies for my 3 - 5 year olds and this is what I have in the house and we do crafts everyday!

-paper towel rolls
-toilet paper rolls
-beads
-cereal
-macaroni
-white paper
-tissue paper
-crepe paper
-pipe cleaners
-string
-water colours and reall paint
-markers
-crayons (when they get small put them in a double lined muffin cup holder and bake in the oven for 3-5 minutes on 300°F. Let cool and take paper off)they end up looing like Recees Peanut butter cups but in multy colours. Kids love them!
-bingo dabbers - kids love these
-glue, glue sticks
-tape
-brass fasteners small to large
-stencils
-feather
-wiggle eys
-buttons
-nature walk stuff, pine cones, helicopter seeds, sticks, etc.
-styrofoam from those freebies
-sponges cut into shapes
-stickers
-hole punch
-old envelopes
-paper plates, we use this for lots of stuff like mobiles and masks and centre pieces...
-left over thread spools
-old film canisters
-masking tape (cover a small jar and use brown furniture polish on it wipe off and it looks like leather, great gift!
-chalk
-glitter
-glue
-glitter glue
-popsicle sticks
-cotton balls
-pon poms of various sizes
-old material
-old wall paper books (go to a wall store and ask for the disc. ones)
-scissors
-clay
-plasticene
-old meat trays sanitized and tin tart holders
-I get these styrofoam holders that expand, they come on the pear/apples to protect them in shipping. I get them from the grocery store cause people just peel them off and so I take them. They are very cool for crafts.
-barley, beans, etc. from bulk inexpensive kids love to glue them for pictures.

Okay, I will have to take another look around and see what else and then add some more or post again! Hope this helps you out!

And if you need kids craft ideas I have a book of them on computer I can riffle through and send/post them.

Oh yeah, old cookie cutters make great things for them to trace and cut out!

EC

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Sunshnz

As far as supplies go just about anything safe is good. We did the bread dough and used cookie cutters to cut shapes ,a toothpick put in them makes it so we can hang them on nice cording later for gifts for his grown siblings. Also natural things like leaves,flowers,rocks, and such ;my 4 year old loves to do nature walks and he notices alot of things that we too often take for granted and often collects some of these items.

Hope this helps:
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jennls

Electric Chameleon- thanks for that great list of things to have on hand. I would really appreciate it you could post some ideas. Walmart had a halloween craft kit where it comes with the basics to make a cat,its was only $1.56, so we are going to try that. i used to have a book called 356 things to do without tv but it got lost in the move, i still hold out hope that i will find it.

Electric Chameleon

I have my stuff broken down in cataegories, holiday, craft recipes, painting, cutting, glueing etc. Just tell me what you want first and I will send/post it for you! May take a little while though to riffle through my disks!
And you are very welcome!



EC

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jennls

some holiday ideas would be great with halloween,thanksgiving and christmas right around the corner.thanks

Electric Chameleon

You can modify these for any season by changing the colour scheme.



HOLIDAY IDEAS

For this activity you will need coloured tissue to correspond with the design that you are working with. Such as a Halloween moon - yellow or Easter eggs - pastels or Christmas tree - green etc., glue, pencil or finger tip.

Have the tissue cut into small 1" squares. Have the design you are going to make on the table. Have the children hold the tissue on the pencil or their finger and dip into the glue and then onto the design. Do this until the entire page is covered. A great place to find these designs are colouring books.

BASKETS

Items needed for this craft are any size basket, coloured glue, decorations. Ribbon is a nice touch too.

Make coloured glue by adding food colouring to white glue. Keep in squeezable containers that are air tight for future use. Decorate a basket for Easter or for a centre piece. Make it more special by using items that you have picked up during your walks such as pine cones, leaves, small rocks that you have decorated. Etc.

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS one

For this craft you need either styrofoam balls or egg cartons, pipe cleaners, glitter, glue, construction paper. Anything that you think is appropriate to make decorations with. Start with making chains for the younger children or making a winter scene on a window by painting pictures of snow men and snowflakes. For the older children have them make decorations for the tree by using the egg cartons and pipe cleaners stuck in to hang with. Have them glue glitter, paper or whatever they want. For the styrofoam balls I would suggest using a pipecleaner inserted into the ball with a loop on the end to hold the weight. This serves to purposes one to make the ornament without getting stuff all over you and two to hang the ornament. Have the child paint the ball with glue then dip or roll into glitter or other craft items, You could use your coloured rice but you need it to be heavy with glue. Hang to dry.

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS two

Items needed for this craft are plain coloured Christmas balls, glue, food colouring, paint brush or small squeeze container. Decorate the balls with the coloured glue let dry and hang. Great to personalize ornaments or make for gifts. Keep the coloured glue for future crafts.




FORTUNE TELLER

This is a combination colour, gluing, craft project so you may find it cross referenced in any of those categories. This one is good for Valentines.

Items required for this craft: coloured paper, pen or marker.

Take a piece of paper and fold one side over to form a triangle. You will have a piece left on the side, cut that off. You will now have a square piece of paper. Open up the paper so the fold is on the outside. Take each corner and fold into the middle to form small triangles, flip the paper over and do the same thing. Fold the remainder into a square to set creases. Unfold to write messages on the fortune teller. The first folds become the hand holds and the second folds become the fortune. One each of the of the triangles you can use a colour dot or have your child colour the triangles. For older children use pictures of animals that they can glue on. On the inside flap of each triangle you have room for fortunes. (There are 8 spots so make them good ones.) For example: Be mine, you are cute, luv you, etc,.

LANTERNS

See crafts for this one.

PINATAS

See crafts for this one. But follow your holiday as a theme. For Thanksgiving try and do a piñata that looks like a turkey, for Halloween a pumpkin, Christmas a wreath, birthdays a cake, etc.

PLACE MATS

For this activity you will need wax paper and an iron, scissors. The rest of what you use is up to you and your child. You can have the child draw pictures for different holidays; for example Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, Birthdays. Have them draw a picture or event. If the child is old enough have the child print the persons name that will be sitting at the table. Let the quest take the place mat home as a keep sake.

If it is around fall have the child collect bright leaves, or you could have your child's handprints and foot prints done for a birthday party.

What you do is place the art work/leaves or whatever you are doing in between two pieces of wax paper. Place the waxier sides together. With a tea towel over top of them Iron on low setting for a couple of minutes, and then flip over and iron the back side. This will adhere the wax paper together to make a sealed place mat. If you have different edge scissors cut around the place mat to create a unique shape. You could do this correspond with the holiday by cutting out a tree or a turkey or just take pinking shears and cut around the edges.


MAKE YOUR OWN FLAG

You will need construction paper, scissors, ruler, glue, chopsticks/skewers/straws, hole punch, and string. Cut out a piece of construction paper that is about 4 -1/2" by 6-1/2". This will be the background colour for you flag. Using different colour of paper or stickers/stampers make designs of stars, animals, strips, or what ever the child would like. Glue the shapes to the background. Punch a hole at the top and the bottom corners of the short ends of the flag. Cut two small pieces of string and lace one through each of the holes. Tie to the straw/skewer, chopstick (which ever you have handy).

For holidays you could do a design representing the holiday and put at the place setting. You could also have the child do ones with all of their names on it. Give to the guests and have fun with them.

Remember to make a few before hand for the beach. That way you can have some for the sand castles.

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Electric Chameleon

I put this one in here now because of the raimbow crayons. I use the muffin liners though as mentioned previously.

EC



SHADOW TRACING
For this activity you need sunshine, a sidewalk, or driveway, chalk, and a shadow. Try using your child's shadow if he/she will stand still long enough or even just part of the shadow i.e.: the head or feet. Have them fill in with chalk the facial features, hands, etc. You can switch this by having the child trace your shadow.

After that is done have them draw other pictures of the family or shapes to 'frame' the picture.

COLOUR MATCH
Material needed for this activity are construction paper, black or dark marker, scissors, clear contact paper or lamination or report covers or any other clear plastic type cover you would like to use, deck of cards (optional see variation).

Make up 2 sets of the 'cards' from the construction paper. Make them a nice size, like a deck of cards or flash cards. Start with a few colours and work up to your 9 basic colours red, green, blue, yellow, orange, purple, brown, black and white. Write the names of each colour on the card. Cover the cards with clear contact paper. Spread the colours out on the table and pick up one card. Say "I have picked up the blue one, can you find the other blue card?" After a while your children may enjoy this activity by themselves.

Variation: Glue the colours onto the front of an old deck of cards and lay them face down on the table and play a game of memory.

RAINBOW CRAYONS
Materials needed for this craft: broken pieces of crayons, clean empty tin can or old muffin tins, pot of hot water, empty, plastic film canisters.

Take the broken crayons and remove any paper left on them. Sort them by colour and place the pieces, one colour at a time, in the empty tin cans. St the tin cans or muffin tins in a pot of very hot or boiling water until the crayons have melted. Pour about 1/4" into each film canister. When the wax hardens, add a second colour in the same way. When you're done, you will have a crayon rainbow of layered colours.

Or you can use the muffin tin to layer the melted crayons in or to melt the crayons and when you can touch the melted wax, put them all together and mold i

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