Recently I attended a Christmas craft evening where I discovered the following crafts, which I feel children would manage with a little help from an adult. I feel sure that many parents and child minders will enjoy and benefit from this.
All the items needed can be purchased reasonably from arts and crafts suppliers and even some discount stores.
I used coloured lolly pop sticks, glue or glue dots, googly eyes, buttons and glitter, plus some ribbon for making hanging loops. Children could follow these designs or modify to make their own creations, which can be hung on the Christmas tree or even given as gifts.
Another idea that I discovered this week and is so ingenious that I had to share was on a television show, it demonstrated how to make bespoke penguin wrapping paper by simply printing with half a potato using black and white paint onto plain brown wrapping paper, then adding feet and beaks with orange paint and commercial googly eyes.
When I was working as a registered child minder I taught the children how to do tea bag folding, which sounds a bit odd, but can be really effective once mastered.
We made small stars to stick onto homemade cards and larger ones as decorations for the playroom walls. Using contrasting colours of paper look even more striking.
Marzipan fruits and Christmas biscuits were also favourites that we did together each year along with the Christmas treasure boxes that we put our little makes into ( read more about this in my post on arts and crafts for children on a shoestring).
I would love to hear about other crafts that adults enjoy sharing with children at Christmas, or at any time of year.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone who reads my blog!
As always questions/comments are welcome.
Karen
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Love these ideas- the potato stamping wrapping paper is a great one! #thesatsesh
Some fab crafts there Thank you for linking to #Thatfridaylinky please come back next week
Never seen any of these brilliant ideas before, I really liked the tea bag folding , going to have a go at trying to master this art myself be something different that I’ve never done before. Thank you for all the them.
These are great. We haven’t done any crafting yet this christmas so it’s time to get stuck in! #familyfun
Such lovely and simple yet effective ideas (although I am sure I would mess up the beautiful star one!) #Christmaslittlemakes
Some really lovely ideas here, I’m actually a bit rubbish at crafts but the kids still love it!
I have not long ago done the Christmas tree so simple but fun for the little ones X #familyfun
Great ideas. We love crafts in our house so I know my little girl would love to try these. I really love the wrapping paper idea. X #FamilyFunLinky
#thesatsesh some cute ideas, i love the penguin wrapping paper idea.i wish the month was a little longer so i had more time to make more ‘bits’. Thanks for joining us and please return in the new year 🙂 happy chrimmy
I love the penguin print made from potato! Such a simple but effective design 🙂 #TriumphantTales
What a great idea! I love the Christmas trees! #DreamTeam
We did the penguin stamping too #bloggerclubuk
The penguin wrapping paper is such a good idea. And something I might even be able to get my little girl to do! #bloggerclubuk
I love the little penguins! So cute! #littlemakes
I love the star idea we have never tried that! We have been making all sorts with lollipop sticks the reindeer one is a favourite of ours! Thanks for linking up to #coolmumclub and Merry Christmas! X
Oh I wish I read this yesterday we were doing crafts and I could have done with some inspiration ( I am not very good at crafts) Oh well we will just have to do it some! I love the Christmas trees! Thanks for joining us #familyfun
Love these, the stick trees look really easy #ablogginggoodtime
Lot’s of fun to be had here! Thanks for sharing all these great ideas! #BrillBlogPosts Happy Holidays! xoxo
Oh such fab ideas. I especially love the lollipop stick reindeer. We love a bit if Christmas crafting at our house. Thanks for linking to #DreamTeam x
Im thinking that this Christmas was my last year childminding. Having only one very young mindee left to look after before we move house, I did very simple crafting. Instead I have enjoyed doing more craft with my own children or should I say having more patience to craft with my own as I haven’t overdone it! Love the lolly stick craft, my 8 yo would enjoy making these #coolmumclub
These are lovely ideas, the little man is just reaching that age where he loves to make things. Thanks for sharing this with us at #TriumphantTales. Hope to see you again on Tuesday for the last linky of 2017 🙂
Beautiful ideas for crafts here! I’m always looking for inspiration for things to do with the kids #fortheloveofBLOG
love the lolly sticks we’ve tried this before. The potato stamping gift wrap looks great #littlemakes
These are all lovely ideas, I particularly love the penguin paper! So cute! #MakeItLinky
These are so fun! Visiting you from the anything goes linky. laurensparks.net
Original and creative ideas!