Kids of all ages enjoy making crafts that let them express their creativity while creating something they can take pride in displaying. Some children like following tutorials to replicate an existing project while others take their own path and produce something entirely original.
These type of crafts will help your child strengthen fine motor skills while exploring color recognition – perfect for fall! A great fall activity!
Frogs and Lily Pads
Frogs have often been stereotyped as unsightly creatures. This book tells the tale of one such little frog who wishes he wasn’t stuck being one!
Create a paper plate and lily pad frog craft by decorating with green paint or tissue paper, using handprints as eyes and adding red strip for tongue. When done, glue everything together before leaving to dry completely before display.
Wooden Baskets
Make an ordinary basket into a chick, rabbit or lamb using this crochet pattern that works year-round. It works up quickly and can even be completed by younger kids as long as they can safely use scissors.
Recycle some paint sticks and a square dowel into an eye-catching storage basket, perfect for displaying flowers or organizing small toys. Kids can draw fun designs onto taper candles to give them an attractive appearance.
Boats
Kids love creating their own boats from recycled materials like egg cartons, margarine containers, and plastic trays – giving preschoolers an opportunity to experiment with sink or float concepts.
This type of kids craft is perfect for imaginative play in either bath or pool water. Another fun option: cork raft boat. Lastly, why not have fun making a twig bundle boat out of nature with your preschoolers?
Suncatchers
Suncatchers are simple and beautiful designs to make with materials available from paper, contact paper, or even nature items. When lit by sunlight they become captivating works of art!
Utilize this activity to strengthen children’s fine motor skills by having them draw on plastic lacing with crayons or markers, providing an opportunity to build pinch, dexterity grasp precision.
Create an exquisite spring flower suncatcher craft as part of a garden unit or nature walk, or collect flowers to use for other floral crafts! Kids will have fun using what nature provides as inspiration!
Terrariums
Terrariums are mini ecosystems designed to let children observe how plants respond to their environment, making them great tools for recreating planets like Tatooine or Middle-earth.
Pebbles or gravel should be placed at the bottom to help facilitate drainage for tropical plants that do not like being potted into soggy soil. After filling with potting soil, plant your chosen species.
Add personal touches to your terrarium by including items like moss, small shells and toys – it’s an easy project you can complete quickly!
Crab Necklaces
Make crab necklaces using egg cartons! All that is necessary are paint, paper and googly eyes – everything else should come from around your home!
This hermit crab craft is an effective way to teach kids about hermit crabs and their body parts. They can write facts on pieces of paper about crabs to tape onto their bodies or claws. Or you could set small objects at one end of the room and see which team can collect them first!
Cardboard Suns
No matter their goal — learning about weather or simply expressing themselves creatively — children love using their hands to explore. Papercraft offers children great opportunities for sensory development and fine motor skill building.
Use these craft projects as fun additions to your classroom, summer stations or morning work! They’re great ways for teaching children about circles, the color yellow or just building fine motor and cutting skills; kids can paint sheets of cardboard in sunset colors before cutting strips out for sunrays!
Taper Candles
Candlelight can transform a mundane weeknight dinner at the kitchen table into an intimate affair and also makes an excellent, heartfelt present.
Use silicone molds to easily make taper candles at home! They are easy to use and come in various shapes for convenient candlemaking.
Fill a heatproof container, such as a wide mouth mason jar or tall metal tin, with hot water and place taper candles inside until they soften; once this process has taken place, gently twist and shape them as needed before decorating with flowers or leaves for decoration.