Arts and crafts have been the bain of my existance for some time now. Elementary school - I was the only kid who couldn't figure out how to fold the right way along the dotted line. Girl's Camp: the torture of day after day with nothing to do but mess up making boondoggles. High school: the only girl who couldn't make a kite without gluing her fingers together. College: having to ask someone else to help me finish my hat in the hat-making charity project I was in charge of. Thus it has been in the life of sticky-haired, fingers tied together, paint on her shirt Laura.
It seems hardly inappropriate that I now find myself a preschool teacher with the responsibility of finding and executing an arts and crafts project every day. It is actually a lot more fun now that I'm better at it than everyone else (everyone else being of age 3), but I'm running out of ideas. We've done every sort of hand tracing/painting imaginable, potato stamps (carved by yours truly), a volcano, made flowers out of an egg cartoon and pipe cleaners, etc. etc. Problem is I'm running out of ideas. If anyone has any ideas (assuming someone reads this blog eventually), PLEASE give them in a comment on this post. Thanks!
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brown paper bag puppets, homemade play dough, the classic macaroni necklace, paper plate fish- http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/animals/fish/, wind sock out of construction paper and streamers, pop-up cards, mobile by cutting a paper plate in a spiral an hanging things from it- http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/butterfly/lifecyclemobile/,
ReplyDeletepinwheels- http://www.ldssplash.com/kids/fun_stuff/funwithpaper/make_your_own_pinwheel.htm,
this site ha a tone of crafts too-
http://www.allcrafts.net/kids.htm#KidsPapercrafts
good luck, hope this helps some. it's not easy coming up with stuff like this on your own!
Dude thanks you rock I'm totally looking into that!
ReplyDeleteHow about hats? At birthday parties we'd pin bells, paste pompoms, and marker squiggly lines onto multicolored baseball caps. Maybe without the pins, for 3-yo's ... :P
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