What are the crafting activities you can do with your child?

[soundt2x]

@DYJH Actually you do not need to purchase sand art craft…coloured salt is good enough…

[Jasenzo]

I have experienced many problem on how to train my 18 months old toddler motorskill. I have tried many ways to train him, such as motorskill training toys, send him for Montesorri School etc. I find it very hard to make him pay attention to the training in the class, due to him short attention behavior. Finally, I decided to train my 18 months old son at home. Here I share my seven easy methods of motorskill training for you to D.I.Y at home with your toddler.


Method #1 Cutting exercise.
Material you need for this is newspaper and a pair of toddler scissors. I bought toddler scissors from craft store, it is child safety scissor made of plastic. Draw a straight line on newspaper, ask your toddler to use the scissors to cut according to the straight line. The important thing is teach them how to hold the scissors to cut the newspaper. Parent have to demostrate to them many times on how to do it, before they master the skill.

Method #2 Pouring water.
This method is inspired from Montesorri book I read. Prepare a A3 size tray, three different sizes of cup and water. Fill the medium size cup with water, ask your toddler to pour the water from medium cup to big cup, then to smallest cup. Ensure they are doing this exercise within the A3 size tray area to avoid water splashing all over the place.

Method #3 Tearing paper.My son enjoy this exercise the most among all the exercises.
Prepare newspaper or recycle papers, the bigger size the better. Ask your toddler to tear the paper from big to small size, tear as many different sizes as possible.

Method #4 Tranferring beads.Buy some different sizes of beads from craft store. Collect some empty juice bottles at home. Ask your toddler to transfer beads from bottle to bottle, either pouring method, or use hand to pick the beads one buy one to fill up the bottle. Both ways are also exercising they motorskill.

Method #5 Scribble on newspaper or recycle paper.
Prepare a big piece of newspaper by joining four pieces of newspaper into one big piece. Let your toddler choose one crayon, and let them scribble on the paper. You can demostrate to them how to do circular, how to draw straight line etc.

Hope you can try above five methods at home with your toddlers!

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[Imami]

Can anyone help me with this -


Bought some sponge brushes. Wanted to try out using sponge brushes to paint big areas of space (more efficient) but the colours didn’t come out well. I am using poster colours. Will it differ if I use water colours?

[seekdoze]

I do scrapbooking with my kids and I gladly ‘donate’ my old scrapbook stash to them. They love playing around with the pretty patterned papers and embellishements. Most importantly, they enjoy the creative process of it.

[bakergirl]

Hey new friends, am new here! Just browse through around this website and I came across a thread, (http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50932) there's this company P;log I guess, where it gives me the idea of creating a photo book with them. I'm planning to use my old and new pictures of me and my mini-me and just simply explore our creativity! I think it would be lovely for memory sake and bonding session hehehe

[toddles]

Imami:

Can anyone help me with this -


Bought some sponge brushes. Wanted to try out using sponge brushes to paint big areas of space (more efficient) but the colours didn't come out well. I am using poster colours. Will it differ if I use water colours?

think it depends on the quality of the poster colours? The crayola paint bottles are quite good...

[toddles]

Simple Origami?

[channie]

You can go to Scoop Of Art, you can do different arts crafty stuff there and just relax when you want to!

[picapica]

I just made a silhouette mural together with my kids to decorate their nursery room door, it was quite simple and quite fun for the kids. It's actually not that complicated, you can get all the necessary materials in one place, and it's quite educational and helpful for their psychomotor skills I think.


If you're interested, you can http://wp.me/p3k0cT-8T.

[soundt2x]

@ Jazenso Many thanks for your suggestions and guess what I did all the above you mentioned already. I am not a very montessori mum but I certainly have to agree with you that the M. approach definitely helps to refine a child's fine motor skills so I did all of the activity you have mentioned. Actually not just transfering beads now I even went on to get my daughter to transfer beans check this out here....

http://babylexin.blogspot.sg/2013/03/lets-have-some-fun-with-green-beans.html

@seedozo and bakergirl just print out photos of your child/family and paste them on old unwanted board books or even used calendar will be a big hit, I guess they will love the idea of flipping probably reinforced by ipad For toddlers, scrapbooking might be a little too difficult I guess but thanks for the info anyway

@picapica your work with your kids is truly inspiring and I find it very interesting and pretty I will take on your idea and tweet it a little to observe the outcome! Will share with you soon and many thanks for your sharing!