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Craft Ideas for Kids: For Summer Time Fun

Summer vacation is a blast for kids and incorporating things where they can be doing educational activities, is even better. Let them enjoy summer crafts for kids to develop their cognitive skills and expand their imagination.

Doing crafts promotes creativity and develops values like openness, cooperation and perseverance. It also helps kids express themselves and build their self esteem. This is the best opportunity to teach your kids values while building a stronger relationship with them as a parent.

There are so many ideas you can offer your children, like gardening, beach fun, camping and wearable crafts. Your child can learn how to do cards, gifts, paper folding and string crafts, etc.

The great thing about doing crafts is that you can start a work, without spending much. All you need to do is make use of old and worn materials, found in your homes. Things like wires, beads, buttons, strings, clips, newspapers, caps and coloring materials.

The thing that makes a summer crafts program fun and exciting for kids are those crafts that they can wear, headbands, pins, jewelry and shirts. I use to love the Indian bead jewelry I got to make as a kid. Your child can design his or her own headband into something that reflects his personality. Have them add some butterflies, ribbons and small stuffed animals on the headband by using a glue gun or other adhesives.

You can encourage the children to make use of all these different materials as accessories, dangling earrings, made of paper clips or a necklace with a plastic flower pendant. This can be a lot of fun for your child and who knows, maybe even an income generating skill in the future.

All children love to do hand paintings on their plain shirts. They enjoy using different colors as they design their own shirts. They usually have a real sense of accomplishment when they are allowed to use their creativity and expression.

Encourage the children to collect seashells and sand during summer vacation. Then you'll have more material to use in making bracelets, necklaces and even house decorations. Shells and coral can be used beautifully with picture frames, bags, containers and even hanging decor.

For a very cool beach theme idea, have your child soak some white sand in watercolor and dry it. Place the colored sand in a glass container with some small shells. This is also a unique gift idea.

Making use of recyclable materials teaches kids about being eco-friendly and making good use of all our resources. Plastic containers and boxes can be wrapped with colorful papers and then decorated with strings and buttons, however your child likes. Use colorful glue or glitters for an amazing appearance.

Another great craft for kids that's fun and fairly inexpensive is paper Mache crafts. It's an activity that's easy and still allows the kids to express their creative nature.

1. Cover an area with newspaper to reduce the mess.
2. Decide on the design or animals to be created. Suggest they make a piñata so they can have more fun busting the goodies from the outside. Or, they may want to hang it in their bedroom.
3. Use balloons for the core of the paper Mache item.
4. Tear newspaper, colored paper or copy paper into 1" strips. Make some longer and shorter strips. Set the piles aside by length and color.
5. Make the paste by adding 1 cup of flour to 5 cups of water.
6. Boil this for 3 minutes. (Stir constantly to keep lumps from forming.)
7. Allow the mixture to cool. Then, pour into large mixing bowl.
8. The consistency should be smooth and paste-like.
9. Dip the newspaper strips in the paste. Squeeze the access paste off.

10.  Place the pasty strips on the mold and smooth out the wrinkles.

11.  Continue placing strips on the mold till it's covered with about four layers.

12.  Allow the mold to dry completely.

13.  Add more layers to get to the desired thickness and allow drying between each new layer.

14.  With sharp scissors, carefully cut a straight line in the middle for the mold.

15.  Carefully open the slit area if you're going to use it for a piñata. Fill with treats and candy.

16.  Seal the "slit" that you just cut with clear tape.

17.  Paint the mold with watercolors and enjoy!

 

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Halloween Crafts that kids can do

When I was a kid, I loved to sit and do crafts Miscellaneous holidays. Now that I am a mother, I can share my love of crafts with my daughter. Each holiday season, we pause from our busy schedules working on some new projects boats holidays.

When it comes to craft with your children, I think it is important to take pictures of their preparation session. After they become adults you can dig these pictures and remember the good times together.

If you are looking to manufacturing build memories with their own children this Halloween season, consider making one of these projects quickly and easily.

Pumpkin Magnet nutshell

walnut halves empty and clean
brown chenille stem debris measuring 1 / 2 "long
orange acrylic paint and brush
cardboard Waste
A "piece of magnet
all purpose white craft glue
child safety scissors

Orange Peel Paint halved walnuts with acrylic paint, let dry. Place walnut shell on a piece of scrap cardboard (or paper); trace around it. Trim this "Oval" shape and set aside. Glue the chenille stem so it looks like the pumpkin stem to the top of the word. Glue the cardboard to the back walnut shell and let dry. Attach the magnet on the map.

Lollipop Ghosts

1 sheet of white felt, cut into 5 "squares
A lollipop
2 (1 / 8 inch diameter) wiggle eyes
6 "piece of 1 / 8" wide black satin ribbon
scrap of black felt for the mouth ghost
Sticky glue
child safety scissors
* * Optionally, a substitute old white cotton shirt to the white felt

Spot paddle in the center of the square of felt. Spread over, you ended with a black satin ribbon, tying a tie. Glue two small eyes on the road face. Using black felt, cut a small circle or oval, 3 / 8 inch diameter for use in the mouth of the ghost. Glue the mouth under the eyes of phantom your done!

Fantasma Foam Magnet

A phantom model
1 sheet of white foam
1 piece of black foam
2 (1 / 8 " eye diameter) moving
1 magnet
Sticky glue
child safety scissors

You can free hand its own ghost model. Location phantom model above the white foam, trace around it. Cut your ghost. Using a piece black foam, cut a small mouth (round or oval) measuring 1 / 4 "diameter. Glue two eyes on the face of the ghost dance near the mouth black. ghost turn, glue a piece of magnet. Let dry.

Ghost Adorno

1 (3 inches diameter) styrofoam ball
1 (8-inch squares) white cotton fabric
1 piece of black felt
1 (4 inch) piece of black satin ribbon, suspended by cable
A straight pin (used in sewing)
1 (6 inch) piece of black satin tape
Sticky glue
child safety scissors

Center of the ball in the square white fabric, fabric wrapped around the ball. tie fabric closed by using the 6 "piece of satin ribbon and bow. (The ball is the head ghost). Attach the 4 "piece of satin ribbon form with a loop knot. Using the pin, push through the node and join the party top of the head of his ghost. Add a small dot of glue to hold in place. Using black felt, cut two eyes and a mouth and a tail to the head. Let dry. They seem to hang from trees cute!

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Shelly Hill has been working from home since 1989 in Direct Sales. You can visit Shelly online at: http://www.classybusinesswomen.com or at http://wahmshelly.blogspot.com