homemade stickers

From Today's Parent magazine:

http://www.todaysparent.com/craftsactivities/craftcorner/article.jsp?content=20060801_162642_1668&page=1

recipes: playdough

From Today's Parent magazine


http://www.todaysparent.com/craftsactivities/craftcorner/article.jsp?content=985109

Cardboard box: bus

Materials:

• large, rectangular cardboard box (like bulk diaper box) with windows, top and bottom cut out by an adult with box cutters (leaving four walls of the box)
• some of: streamers, sparkles, markers, crayons, paint, stickers, glue
• construction paper (cut big black circles for wheels, little yellow or orange circles for flashing lights)
• glue stick / white glue

Instructions:

• decorate box with wheels, flashing lights, brake lights, etc
• child stands in box and lifts off floor with arms to "drive" bus around the house

Cardboard box: spaceship

Adapted from Andrea Gordon's post.

Materials:

• appliance sized cardboard box (from appliance store) with windows and door cut out by an adult with box cutters
• bike-helmets
• tin-foil
• some of: streamers, sparkles, markers, crayons, paint, stickers, glue

Instructions:

• adorn bike-helmet with tin-foil to make space helmets
• decorate cardboard box in theme of space-ship with above materials
• have child wear "helmet" into space-ship and count-down for blast-off!!

Or, you could simply purchase a cardboard rocket-ship playhouse. [h/t: BoingBoing]

Cardboard box: house

Materials:

• large card-board box with window flaps and door flaps cut open by an adult with a box-cutter (cut the corners off the flaps to make it less pointy and to make it easier for little hands to open the flaps)
• some of: markers, pencil crayons, crayons, paint, stickers
• some of: material scraps, tin foil, glitter, construction paper
• glue stick or white glue for older children

Instructions:

• show how the box can be used as a house (doors, windows etc)
• decorate as desired with materials described above

Binoculars

Materials:

• two toilet paper rolls
• tape
• optional: hole-punch, yarn or string
• optional: crayons, markers, paint, stickers

Instructions:

• tape together the two toilet paper rolls, side by side
• optional: punch two holes at one end of the binoculars (one on each side), tie length of yarn / string to make a neck strap (supervise pre-schoolers at play to ensure they don't choke themselves!)
• optional: decorate with materials mentioned above

crafty recipes

details can be found at: http://www.twinslist.org/toddler.htm#crafts

for:

• yuk!
• pet tornado
• chalk
• spray chalk
• watercolour paints
• watercolour wands
• almost oilpaint
• sawdust dough
• coffee dough
• bathtub fingerpaints
• puffy dough paint
• goop
• plastic suncatchers
• balloon animals
• soap shapes
• peanut butter dough
• silly putty
• chalk
• spary chalk
• watercolour paints
• sticker glue
• claydough
• no cook claydough
• stovetop claydough
• edible peanut butter claydough
• koolaid claydough

origami: paper hat

Materials:

• old newspaper or rectangle of old wrapping paper if making to fit a child's head, letter sized paper for fitting a doll's head
• some of paint, markers, stickers, crayons, felt pieces, feathers, foam stickers
• optional: glue stick or glue if using felt pieces or feathers

Instructions:

• fold paper as per instructions here
• decorate as desired with above materials
• wear with points forward to be archer
• wear with points to the sides to be a pirate

Paper Chains

Materials:

• strips of paper (about 3 cm by 20 cm) (multi-coloured construction paper makes a pretty chain)
• glue stick (or white glue / rubber cement for older children)

Instructions:

• form a ring with one paper strip, glue the ends together
• insert a second paper strip into the first ring, form a ring and glue the ends together
• repeat for as long a chain as desired

Lunch bag puppets

Materials:

• brown lunch bag with flat rectangular bottom
• some of: markers, construction paper, crayons, pencils, glitter, feathers, craft shapes for decorating
• glue stick (or white glue / rubber cement for older children)

Instructions:

• place the lunch bag so that the folded bottom is up at the top -- this will be the "face" of the puppet (with the fold of the bag as the mouth)
• decorate the face and body as desired
• insert hand and operate!

Mosaics

Materials:

• outline drawing (from colouring book, printed from internet or hand-drawn)
• glue stick (or white glue for older children)
• an assortment of small pieces of paper (from magazines, construction paper, junk mail etc)
• scissors (optional)

Instructions:

• rip up (or cut up) pieces of paper and glue them into the outline drawing

Bracelets / super-hero bands

Materials:

• paper towel tube / toilet paper tube pre-cut in ~4cm widths and slit vertically (trim corners so that they're not sharp)
• any of crayons, markers, paint, stickers, adhesive foam shapes
• coloured paper shapes (optional)
• glue stick (or glue) if using coloured paper above

Instructions:

• decorate cardboard tube "bracelet" / "super-hero band" as desired

supplies: free materials

summarized from: http://www.kiddiecampus.com/artcook.htm#artdevelop

Alteration Shops: fabric scraps, spools

Appliance Stores: styrofoam packing material, cardboard boxes

Beaches: shells, rocks

Building Contractors: floor samples, tile samples, paneling samples, wood scraps, knobs

Carpet & Floor Stores: carpet samples / remnants, tile / tile samples

Copy Shops: Computer paper, Colored and white scrap paper, Misprinted paper, Ends of paper rolls

Department Stores,: display material, discarded stationery, boxes, catalogs

Fabric Store / Yarn Shops: samples of yarn and fabric, colour samples, buttons, spools, catalogs, remnants, broken packages of yarn

Flower Shops / nurseries: discarded cellophane, coloured aluminum foil, etc. dried plants and flowers

Framing stores: matte board scraps

Paint and Wallpaper Stores : wallpaper samples, colour swatches, books

Photography Stores: Empty film canisters, matte board scraps

Schools: old textbooks and workbooks to cut up

Supermarkets: boxes, paper bags, containers, fruit boxes

Around the Home:

Tubes from paper towels and toilet paper, catalogs magazines and newspapers, fabric scraps, empty food containers, shoe boxes

theory: stages of art-development

adapted from: http://www.kiddiecampus.com/artcook.htm#artdevelop

1. Manipulative - pre-school

• manipulation of materials (paint, clay, chalk, markers, glue etc)
• random scribbles
• pound, squeeze and tear clay
• paint thickly over entire paper
• children are not yet making representations (see point 4 below)

2. Design or Patterning

• typically develops by age 4
• experimentation with materials
• beginning to master implements (pen, brush, chalk, scissors, glue etc)
• children discover line shapes (straight, curved, open, closed, etc.)
• dots and spaces are used

3. Naming or Symbolic

• often during age 4
• creating pictures or models of things
• voluntarily telling what they made and often tell stories involving their work
• there may not be a clear and sustained objective in mind as they begin to work
  (frequently begin making one thing and then identify it as something else)

4. Representation

• typically develops by age 5 or 6, sometimes earlier
• children's art resembles the objects represented
• at first many details are missing and objects do not represent reality

recipies

http://www.kiddiecampus.com/artcook.htm#Artrecipes

Dough - cooked and uncooked
Finger paint - cooked and uncooked
Slime / silly putty
Soap paint