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Last updated on Jan 31st, 2021 at 12:41 am
Paper offers a wonderful, safe way for you to get creative with your child. Best of all, it’s something you probably have lying around the house already.
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Benefits of making crafts:
- Builds fine-motor skills
- Enhances hand-eye coordination
- Expands cognitive skills.
- Encourages creativity and play.
- The understanding of how things work, or fit, together
- Number and colour association.
Octopus plate
You will need:
- Paper plate
- Dry penne pasta
- Paint
- Permanent marker
- Pipe cleaners
- Paper punch
Method
- Paint the pasta, which is a great chance for your little one to get his fingers dirty and learn colours.
- Thread the pipe cleaners through the holes and secure them by twisting the ends together.
- Thread the pasta onto the pipe cleaners, all the while talking about the colours of the pasta.
- Draw on a smiley face.
- This octopus can be built and re-built as many times as you like. It’s the perfect toy to bring along to a waiting room, or when you need to keep your kids busy for a while.
Fire-blowing dragons
You will need:
- Empty toilet rolls
- Mini pom-poms
- Glue stick
- Tissue paper
- Scissors
Method
- Prepare the toilet rolls by getting your child to paint them.
- Glue on the larger pom-poms for eyes and smaller ones for the nostrils.
- Cut long triangular strips of tissue paper for the fire.
- Glue the base of the triangles onto the roll, overlapping as you go, until you have enough tissue paper to make it look like fire.
Paper giraffe
You will need:
- A4 yellow paper
- Brown paper
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Marker
Method
- Help your toddler roll thin, narrow cones from the yellow paper.
- Using scissors, trim the bottom of the cone so it can stand on a flat surface.
- Tear long, thin strips of brown paper and then tear these strips into small squares.
- Glue the brown squares onto the cone.
- Draw a simple face onto a scrap of the yellow paper.
- Cut out the face and glue to the top of the cone.
