Get crafty with the kids
Want to keep little ones entertained whilst helping their development too? Whip out the glitter and glue and get creating! We've pulled together our favourite easy craft ideas, so you don't have to...
If like me, you’re blessed with children who love creating and crafting, you’ll never be short of ideas for presents and activities.
And busting out the glue, glitter and crafting scissors provides so many great benefits for their development too. Yes, it can be messy, but while they’re having fun, they’re also improving so many of their skills.
Crafting and creating helps children:
Cut out a Christmas tree shape using green paper or cardboard then pinch some pom poms with garden pegs. These can then be used as ‘paintbrushes’ to create painted baubles on your Christmas tree. Break out the coloured paints and get decorating the tree.
Get creative with some finger paints, sharpies and stickers to craft some personalised baubles – try some reindeer, Santas, elves? The possibilities are endless.
For a reindeer, take your bauble (matt surfaces work best), paint your thumb in a reindeer colour (brown is standard but by no means prescriptive) and paint a thumbprint on the bauble. Once dry, draw on the antlers and facial features before finishing off with a ruby red nose – you can use paint, stickers, permanent markers. Whatever you like to get the desired effect.
I love how colourful these hanging decorations are. And they’re so much fun to make with pine cones found during a lovely winter’s walk.
You’ll need some small pompoms, a glue gun and some ribbon or string. Simply attach a loop of ribbon or string to the bottom of a pine cone for the hanger then glue the little pompoms around the spines of the pine cone – simple but effective, don’t you think?
Why not keep it really simple with your hands, some paint and some paper? Get creative with your handprints and see what animals and shapes you can come up with for your winter scene. We love these little birds, but the options are abounding.
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