Elmer’s contacted me and asked me to host a very small Kids Craft Camp. Everyone we know is of the Preschool and Toddler age because that is also where we are age wise. So thought and planning had to actually go into our little event. Toddlers need organization, or perhaps this mommy needs organization. Elmer’s actually helped quite a bit with the “organization” part. They sent me an already organized into individual sets camp kit:
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· CraftBond Gel Pens
· CraftBond Extra Strength Glue Stick
· CraftBond Tape Runner · Painters Markers
· X-ACTO Zigzag and Scallop scissor packs
· X-ACTO 8” Scissors
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· CraftBond Extra Strength Glue Stick
· CraftBond Glue Spots
· Project Popperz Markers
· Mini Bi-Fold Foam Board
Plus they sent me a gift card to get extra supplies needed.
You know, stickers, colored paper, more stickers, kid safe markers, and some snacks. Can’t have kids camp without some snacks. Anyways, as I was saying, I still had to be even more organized, crafts with younger children is much easier on my soul if every step is “pre” done. So I had to pick a craft. We looked at three different craft ideas together before I made a choice. Based on what I had with me, we decided to make little summer photo books with the bi-fold foam boards.
It’s best to have everything pre cut. Say paper shapes, little pieces of ribbon. We like to use pipe cleaners and yarn for a lot of our crafts and Zoe and Miles are becoming quite the experts at making a mess I mean, using glue! So getting all of the supplies ready before hand is a huge help in crafting with preschoolers.
Have smocks ready. We have a lot of baby bibs left over and they make really great smocks. They are the elastic kind and stretch around the neck, fitting most preschoolers.
Make sure your supplies are age appropriate. The packs that Elmer’s sent us were geared for 5 to 6 plus. My kids still get markers all over every piece of their unclothed body so I had to switch out the makers, but everything else was ok for their age.
Lastly, the key is for everyone to have fun. For me doing all the work ahead of time to premeasure everything for each child works best. You may come to my house and think it’s a disaster, but I can’t handle a mess. So whatever I can do to minimize it, I will. Using Elmer’s scissors and X-ACTO products made pre-assembly a breeze for me. I love all the different scissor shapes for scrapbooking.
The kids decorated the outside front and back. Then, one thing that’s really nice about technology and having enough adults around is that you can take pictures digitally and just print them off right away and add them to the photo book. Then let the kids take the rest home and add their own photos of summer adventures and then they can have the artwork and photos in their room on display. It’s a fun and easy idea. I guess it’s more like a photo collage than a photo book, either way the kids loved the chance to make their own “books”.
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One of my favorite craft ideas is making bats out of paper plates at Halloween, turkeys out of foot and hand prints for Thanksgiving, and Reindeer out of foot and hand prints at Christmas. We do sand art in the summer and my latest craft project will be doing tie dyed shirts with my grandson.
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Our favorite is to make flower bouquets using coffee filters that we “tie-dye” w/ liquid watercolors. When dry, edge with patterned scissors, fold into quarters and pinch a “stem” in the center, and then wrap a pipe-cleaner stem around to secure. So pretty!
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Working with kids I like to make flowers and hats out of various papers, make collages or landscapes using many media, and make projects for fine motor development like beading and sewing.
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My favorite craft ideas are making paper mask. I love to make all different kinds.
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Love the project ideas and how they are by age and/or holiday. Definitely going to try the yarn jar with my kids. Lots of extra yarn here to make some fun items to give away.
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One of my favorite craft ideas was the christmas that I bought rolls of place brown and white craft paper and had the kids decorate the paper with markers, stamps, stickers, ect for our holiday wrap. They felt so much a part of the holidays and putting it together.
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I like the Tea Box Snowman..we will probably do that for the grandmas this winter
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I like the Asian Paper Lantern-it’s pretty and looks easy.
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I have 4 grandkids who are very creative. I save/recycle toilet paper rolls, dish detergent bottles, scrap fabrics, etc. give them markers, glue, glitter, buttons, google eyes, etc. They use their broad imagination/creativity & stay at our kitchen table for hours creating their artsy masterpieces. Priceless!
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