| Child Crafts | | | | shape they want! It's like painting with yarn. |
| Looking for something to entertain the kids when | | | | Child Crafts for Older Children |
| it's raining or too cold to go outside? Child crafts | | | | As children get older, they are capable of more |
| can keep kids busy for hours- and best of all, child | | | | detailed child crafts. Let grade school children |
| crafts can be educational. There are child crafts | | | | create a city out of cardboard boxes. Flatten a |
| you can make with kids of all age groups, from | | | | box or two to create the city ground, and using |
| preschoolers right through high school aged | | | | smaller boxes, egg cartons, and construction |
| teenagers. | | | | paper, let your child build a city. Draw roads with |
| | | | markers, make trees and houses. Drive |
| Popular Child Crafts for Preschoolers | | | | matchbox cars through the city, or make your |
| Before getting started making child crafts, gather | | | | own cars out of egg cartons or other objects. |
| all the supplies! As your preschooler is running | | | | Children love clay and play dough. You can follow |
| around the house, go on a search for paper, glue, | | | | child crafts recipes to making your own dough for |
| crayons and safety scissors. Child crafts can | | | | the kids to play with. Other child crafts that |
| make use of nontraditional items as well, so look | | | | involve food are potato stamps and macaroni |
| for empty shampoo or dish soap bottles, paper | | | | necklaces. |
| towel and toilet paper rolls, string, shoe boxes and | | | | Create musical instruments with coffee cans, and |
| paper bags. Let your imagination be your guide. | | | | elbow macaroni. Make your own bubble solution |
| Child crafts for preschoolers should be fairly | | | | with equal parts dish soap and water, and let your |
| simple to make, as well as quick in order to hold | | | | kids blow bubbles in the bathtub for a special child |
| their attention. Help them make binoculars from | | | | crafts treat! |
| toilet paper rolls, or puppets from old socks and | | | | Warren and Karen have been involved in the |
| markers. Add yarn hair. A favorite child craft of | | | | internet for a number of years and run several |
| many children is creating yarn masterpieces. Give | | | | websites. They are most interested in providing |
| your child glue and different colored pieces of | | | | opportunities for people to connect with |
| yarn. Let the child place glue all over their paper | | | | information relating to business, health and |
| (gluesticks work great for this project) and then | | | | creativity. Check out their Child Crafts blog for |
| lay out pieces of yarn over the glue in whatever | | | | more information. |