Artchoo! - contagious art and design for kids. Crafts for Kids. Kid craft central - Your resource center for kids crafts. Creare insieme con i più piccoli. Messy Kids. TinkerLab. The Artful Parent. Kids Activities with Printables - Activity TV. Red Ted Art's Blog. Chiara Consiglia. Let the children play. Build With Letters - Alphabet For Starters. The goal for our Alphabet For Starters series is to give you ways to introduce letters to your children through all sorts of play.
This activity the 7th post in our series pairs gross motor play with letter recognition perfectly! Don’t forget that the number one thing you can do to teach your children about letters is to read to them so after the activity we’ve included some of our favorite books and if you are looking for alphabet books for kids we have 50 Alphabet Books too! Gather your materials. You will need some big blocks like these from Melissa & Doug ( cardboard boxes will work just great too ) ,scissors, painters tape if you don’t want to alter your blocks forever or a sharpie if you do.
Using the tape make letters on the blocks. Last night I had to make more letters because my son was begging to spell all sorts of words. Our Bedtime Books Baby Giggles (Beautiful Babies) by Rachael Hale is a simple board book that my daughter adores. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Making Books to Invite Creativity – with EASY Video Tutorial. A colorful pile of blank homemade books!
Don’t they just speak of creative possibilities? Stories and drawings and hand-drawn comic books! Journals, projects and secret codes! These books are really easy to make (yes, even if you aren’t crafty) and now that we have a stack of them we’re ready any time inspiration strikes. Mom’s book ideas: We can write a family story! The boys’ book ideas: James (7) – We can make a book about how valves work! Leland (5) – We can make a book about animals that shed their skins! Guess I’ll leave the content decisions to the kids… This stack of homemade books is ready for whatever the kids want to put in them. I used an excellent book called Creating Handmade Books to learn how to make these. Supplies: Cover Paper (I used Astrobrights)Inner Papers (Same size as cover, I used 4 sheets plain paper per book. Book Instructions: (See the short video for these to make sense.
Now you can make these in whatever size you like. Marbled Sunset Painting. While the sun was setting behind us, I thought Emily would like to paint a picture of a sunset.
I wanted to use a technique that would be easy for her, but give great results. This one was a hit! To make your own marbled sunset painting, you will need: shaving cream (very inexpensive, make sure it is foam NOT gel), a piece of cardboard, paint (we used acrylics), a paintbrush, baking sheet, and some heavy-weight paper. Hands on kids activities for hands on moms. Attività Creative per Bambini. The life and times of a home schooling mom of se7en+1. Childhood 101-playing.learning.growing. Crafts for Kids: Easy Craft Ideas for Every Holiday and Season. DLTK's Crafts for Kids.