Chapter 4 ( The Complete Guide Education Arts and Crafts For Kids)

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As we know that infancy is a very appropriate time when your children can be develop their creativity..

and now i'd like to tell you some guides for making arts and craft project for kids,, and this projects helps safeguard our kids, and we can together making craft with our kid to making good communication and warm feeling, and clearly, our kids will be funny playing with their parents...

St Patrick’s. Day
IDEA: Green collages
CATEGORY: Process art product

MATERIALS:
• Any kind of materials that is green.
• Paper,
• Buttons,
• Pipe cleaners,
• Leaves,
• Stickers
See page 22 for more material ideas

DIRECTIONS: Let them collage using only green items of different
shades

IDEA : Shamrock people
CATEGORY: Cafeterias style
MATERIAL:
• Cut out a whole bunch of shamrocks all sizes.
• Manila tag board
• googly eyes,
• Strips of paper,
• Ribbon
• Yarn,
• Sequins
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• Buttons
See page 22 for more ideas for materials.

DIRECTIONS:
Let them make shamrock people.

IDEA: Green on green resist
CATEGORY: Process only art product

MATERIALS:
• Green construction paper
• Green crayons
• White paint
• Paintbrushes
• Water and
• Containers

DIRECTIONS:
Let them draw a design on green paper using green crayons, pressing
hard as it is hard to see. Then paint over the picture with white tempera
paint.
If paint is too thick water down a bit.

Mothers day
IDEA: Cards
CATEGORY: Process only art

MATERIALS: See list of activities that are process only pages 30-40
Large white or manila tag board for activity itself and then use white
computer paper or construction paper for the inside. Whatever paper you
decide to do the art activity on that is larger than drawing paper
See list of activities to choose which one you will do for these cards

DIRECTIONS:
After you choose the activity you will use as a base for the new years
cards, have the children do the activity and then put them aside to dry.
Then take a piece of drawing paper and have the child dictate to you what
New Years wishes he or she wishes to put on the paper. If they are old
enough they can write them out themselves.
Take the written words and staple to the inside of the artwork. When card
is folded you can see outside artwork.
If you want smaller cards then use the smaller tag board

IDEA: Plants with transformed art vases
CATEGORY: Transformed art

MATERIALS:
• Containers,
• Coffee cans,
• Milk cartons or whatever can be use to make a vase and to plant in

DIRECTIONS:
Decoupage or mosaic a container. See pages 25-27 Fill with dirt and plant
some beans in it. Do a week before Mothers Day to give beans a chance to
sprout.

Shavuot
IDEA: Flowers
CATEGORY: Cafeteria style

MATERIALS:
• Cut off tops of egg boxes to use.
• Cupcake holders.
• Coffee filters,
• Chenille stems otherwise known pipe cleaners
• Toothpicks,
• Pieces of Styrofoam,
• Buttons,
• Pieces of tissue paper
See page 22 for more materials ideas

DIRECTIONS:
Allow kids to make types of flowers they’d like
They can then make some vases using transformed art on containers to
put the flowers in. They can use the pipe cleaners as stems.

IDEA: Placemats
CATEGORY: Process only art products

MATERIALS:
Collected flowers and leaves from outside along with some pieces of
tissue paper and cellophane paper and other delicate pretty materials.

DIRECTIONS:
Have children decorate hard pieces of manila tag board with materials
provided and then laminate or cover with contact paper.

IDEA: Mt Sinai mural
CATEGORY: Cafeteria style

MATERIALS:
• Manila tag board or other choice of background.
• A few different sizes of large humplike pieces that look mountains
cut out from brown and green pieces of paper
All kinds of materials that suggest spring and flowers.
• Tissue paper,
• Cellophane paper,
• Ribbon,
• Yarn,
• Fake grass pieces,
• Shiny pieces of material
• Buttons
• Strip of white paper
See page 22 for more material ideas

DIRECTIONS:
Have them create scenes at the mountain

Fathers Day
IDEA: Paperweight rock with decoupage
CATEGORY: Transformed art

MATERIALS: Either rock found outside or crumbled up aluminum foil

DIRECTIONS: If you can’t find a rock then take some aluminum foil,
crumble up, paper mache over it and then decoupage on top

IDEA: Tee shirt
CATEGORY: Process only art

MATERIALS:
• Old white tee shirt of Dad.
• Rubber bands,
• Fabric dye
• Fabric dye in a spray paint bottle.

DIRECTIONS:
Bunch up pieces of the tee shirt with rubber bands. Stick in the dye or
spray it with the dye from the spray bottle. Remove rubber bands and it
will be tie dyed.

IDEA: Frames
CATEGORY: Transformed art

MATERIALS:
Cut out cardboard frames. Decoupage materials

DIRECTIONS:
Either mosaic or decoupage frames. Can also wrap various materials around like ribbon and trimmings to decorate frame.
Actually can use any material to decorate frames Can give children the
chance to choose how they would like to decorate. Make sure to give them
at least 3-4 choices.

Fall
IDEA: 2 dimensional trees
CATEGORY: Cafeteria style

MATERIALS:
• Large background of manila tag board or large construction paper.
(can be brown or green to set the mood)
• An assortment of rectangles in various shades of browns and
greens for the children to choose as a base for tree.
• Corrugated pieces of cardboard,
• Fake green grassy stuff,
• Cotton pieces,
• Various types of papers in various shades of brown and greens,
• Fall colors, tissue paper,
• String
• Ribbon,
• Yarn
• Small pom poms
See page 22 for list of materials for more ideas.

DIRECTIONS:
You can first show the children many pictures of trees so they know that
there are many types of trees.
Have them then choose what they will they use for the base of the tree and
let them glue it down. Then allow them choose the materials they will use
to decorate their tree.

IDEA: Leaf art placemats
CATEGORY: Process only art products

MATERIALS:
• Leaves of all colors, pine needles, flowers and other outdoor
collected nature stuff.
• Large manila tag board
• Glue

DIRECTIONS:
Glue all of the found outdoor leafy things in a pleasing arrangement on the
tag board and then decoupage over a few times.
Or once its done you can laminate it or cover with contact paper and use
for a placemat.
If you framed it with construction paper before laminating it is much
prettier.

IDEA: Leaf crumbles
CATEGORY: Process art products with prepared shapes

MATERIALS:
Large cut out leaves from either construction paper or manila tag board.
Give kids a choice of which background leaf they will use.
Leaves and bits of flowers and stems collected from outside.

DIRECTIONS:
Crumble up leaves and other bits of flowers and mix into glue.
Use this mixture and have the children paint it onto their leaves.
It will be an artsy, gluing, decoupaggy look. Have them collage on tag board and then treat as decoupage and paint
over picture with glue a few coats.

Winter
IDEA: Winter snowman collages
CATEGORY: Cafeteria style

MATERIALS:
• Blue or black construction paper
• White circles of different sizes cut out of a few kinds of white paper,
Cotton balls
• Q tips,
• Small shapes of different colors.
See page 22 for materials for other idea

DIRECTIONS:
Arrange materials for them to make beautiful snowman collages

IDEA: Winter chalk pictures
Category: Process only art

MATERIALS:
• Black or blue paper
• Chalk

DIRECTIONS: Have them create pictures using chalk on black or dark
blue paper.

IDEA: Black paper and Ivory snow pictures
CATEGORY: Process only art

MATERIALS:
Black or blue construction paper
Ivory snow
Glue
Paintbrushes

DIRECTIONS:
Have them glue on paper with glue brushes or paintbrushes and then
sprinkle ivory snow on top of glue. Wherever there is glue the ivory snow
will stick.

Spring
IDEA: Flower collages

MATERIALS:
• Manila tag board,
• Coffee filter,
• Pipe cleaners,
• Cupcake holders,
• Buttons,
• Ribbons

DIRECTIONS:
Just tell them these are for spring pictures and let them create.

IDEA: Real flower collages
CATEGORY: Process only art

MATERIALS:
• Leaves
• Flowers
• Manila tag board
• Glue

DIRECTIONS:
Have them collage beautiful real flowers and leaves and other flowery
stuff on tag board. Laminate or contact paper for placemats when done.

Summer
IDEA: Individual underwater sea murals
CATEGORY: Cafeteria style.

MATERIALS:
• Large manila tag board
• Lots of markers
• Different shades of blue paint
• Brown paint
• Green paint
• Construction paper
• White copy paper

DIRECTIONS:
Have them paint bottom part of the tag board as water or sand and the
other part as beach or grass.
Let them make many different pictures of the things they think they will
find underwater and on top of the water. Then let them cut out and paste
these items in the proper place like coral and octopuses, and boats and
sun and birds etc. Brainstorm with them. The great thing about this is they
don’t have to use the picture if they don’t like it they can just cut
something else out.

IDEA: Beach Bags
CATEGORY: Cafeteria style

MATERIALS:
• Piece of canvas or burlap
• Fabric glue
• Yarn
• Ribbon
• Pieces of felt cut into different shapes
• Fabric markers
• Needles
• Thread
• Long pieces of rick rack or trimming

DIRECTIONS:
Give the children 2 equal size pieces of burlap large enough for a bag.
Have them decorate the bag with above materials.
Turn inside out
Sew along 3 edges.
Turn back to the right side.
Help children attach long pieces of trimming for handle.

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