Craft Ideas - Preschool

ANIMAL COLLAGE

(Best suited for toddlers and young children.)

Most libraries have collections of old National Geographic (or similar) magazines. They'll usually let you have them at no charge if you ask. I take a couple of magazines with me on sitting assignments, and either the child or I will cut out pictures of the animals. We then paste them onto a large sheet of white paper. Then we say the name of the animal and make the sound the animal might make. Then I print the first letter of the animal's name. Not only are they learning new kinds of animals and the sounds they make, but they're also learning letter recognition and developing their fine motor skills. It also makes a colorful collage to put on the child's wall.

MAKE YOUR OWN STICKERS

With this solution, you can turn magazine pictures, wrapping paper motifs or your own creations into stickers.  All you need is 11 teaspoons of flavored Jell-O and 2 teaspoons of boiling water.

1.    Pour boiling water on Jell-O and stir until dissolved.

2.    Let mixture cool 1 minute.

3.    Brush a thin coating onto the back of each cutout.

4.    When dry, your kids can lick 'em and stick 'em just like real stickers!

KEEPSAKE

Make a memento to keep forever or to give to grandparents or other family members.  All you need is 2 cups of flour, 1/2 cup of salt and 3/4 cup of warm water.

1.    Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.  Dough needs to be a good sugar cookie dough consistency.  (If you'd like a finished product with a little more pizzazz, you can add the food coloring of your choice at this stage.)

2.    Roll into about 1 inch thickness.

3.    Cut our heart shapes (or whatever shape you'd like) then imprint with child's hand or foot.

4.    Bake at 325 degrees for about one hour.

5.    Remove from oven when hard.

6.    When cool, you can decorate however you wish.

OSCAR THE GROUCH
You need the containers from old rolls of film.  Remove the top and glue a 1'' green pompom to the top of cylinder, glue 2 moveable eyes and a scrap piece of red felt for the mouth.  Glue the lid to the back of head and you will have Oscar the grouch.

HOMEMADE LEMONADE
Supplies:  sugar, water, lemons, manual juicer, pitcher

1. Cut the lemons in half and squeeze the juice out--one of those manual juicers that has the cone-shaped grooved things on top--makes the squeezing much easier, something a child can do
2. Mix one part sugar to two parts lemon juice to six parts water. (i.e. 1/2 cup sugar, 1 cup lemon juice, 3 cups water or 1cup sugar, 2 cups lemon juice, 6 cups water, etc.)  More/less sugar and water can be added to taste.  Variation--if squeezing the lemons isn't possible, you can just buy a jar of lemon juice and use that instead.
3. Serve w/ or w/out ice according to age and preference.

Lemon juice can sting if kids get it on them during the squeezing process, and they would need to wash their hands afterwards so they don't get the juice in their eyes.

Etched Pictures - very easy.
WHAT YOU NEED: Crayons, the brighter the better and definitely a black one, plain white paper, a penny or Popsicle stick.

On the plain white piece of paper take one bright color, start in the top corner, and color a piece of that in a diagonal. Take another color and do the same thing right underneath it etc.. So essentially you are making a rainbow in a diagonal form. After the sheet is completely colored, take the black crayon and color over it. Make sure none of the color is showing. (you should press pretty hard.) After that is done take the penny or Popsicle stick and peel some of the black off in designs that the children want or can do themselves. They will make beautiful pictures that they can give to their parents.

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