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Activities
Craft activities might get a little messy, but don't worry, arts and craft are brilliant for developing little minds and bodies. So, what's a few paint stains compared to burgeoning creativity!
Fingerprint Bugs
➡️ These fingerprint bugs are super simple to do and so much fun for the little ones! 🐝
➡️ You’d love seeing how they dab their little fingers with different colors 🌈 and then help them make some colourful bugs in a jar!
➡️ You’d love seeing how they dab their little fingers with different colors 🌈 and then help them make some colourful bugs in a jar!
Baby Shark Popsicles
➡️ Draw your child’s little hands on a colorful paper and cut ✂️ them along the lines.
➡️ Add some googly eyes 👀 and a mouth and let your child decorate the shark.
➡️ Add a popsicle stick to hold it well…Its fun to see them dance on the Baby shark song holding these. 🦈🦈
➡️ Add some googly eyes 👀 and a mouth and let your child decorate the shark.
➡️ Add a popsicle stick to hold it well…Its fun to see them dance on the Baby shark song holding these. 🦈🦈
Rainbow Craft
➡️ Teach them about VIBGYOR 🌈 (V-Violet, I-Indigo, B-Blue, G-Green, Y-Yellow, O-Orange, R-Red), the seven lovely colors of a rainbow through this simple rainbow craft.
INSTRUCTIONS:
➡️ Cut out the shape of cloud ☁️ from the white cardstock paper.
➡️ Glue the rainbow colored sticks on one side of the cloud cutting as shown below. Let it dry for some time.
➡️ Glue the wiggle eyes 👀 on the other side of the cloud and make mouth/nose with a black pen. And your smiling rainbow is ready.
🌈 😊
INSTRUCTIONS:
➡️ Cut out the shape of cloud ☁️ from the white cardstock paper.
➡️ Glue the rainbow colored sticks on one side of the cloud cutting as shown below. Let it dry for some time.
➡️ Glue the wiggle eyes 👀 on the other side of the cloud and make mouth/nose with a black pen. And your smiling rainbow is ready.
🌈 😊
Hopscotch
➡️ Use a chalk and make a hopscotch grid like one shown in the picture.
➡️ Number the squares from one to ten and the pattern can be made even longer by adding squares to jump and so on… 🏃
➡️ Number the squares from one to ten and the pattern can be made even longer by adding squares to jump and so on… 🏃
Shape Bus Activity
➡️ Cut a big rectangle and let the child colour it as per his choice. 🖍
➡️ Cut small windows in square and rectangle shapes and let the child colour it as per his choice.
➡️Cut the circles as shown in the picture. It’s fun to see the colourful bus so let the child do that. 🔴 🔵
➡️ While doing this activity encourage your child to call out the names of the shapes. ⚫️ 🖤 ⬛️
➡️ Glue it for your child and let him do a pretend play activity of going to school in a bus! 🚌
➡️ Cut small windows in square and rectangle shapes and let the child colour it as per his choice.
➡️Cut the circles as shown in the picture. It’s fun to see the colourful bus so let the child do that. 🔴 🔵
➡️ While doing this activity encourage your child to call out the names of the shapes. ⚫️ 🖤 ⬛️
➡️ Glue it for your child and let him do a pretend play activity of going to school in a bus! 🚌
Tube Family Craft
➡️ You can use old tissue rolls or a cardstock sheet as per availability.
➡️ Encourage your child to count the number of members in the family and make the equal number of tubes. 👨👨👧👦
➡️ Paint the rolls/tube with watercolours and once dried add some googly eyes, make a nose and a mouth with a marker. 🎨
➡️ Stick wool as per choice to make hair
This is a great engaging activity for children to understand what is family and they can play with it too! 🧶
➡️ Encourage your child to count the number of members in the family and make the equal number of tubes. 👨👨👧👦
➡️ Paint the rolls/tube with watercolours and once dried add some googly eyes, make a nose and a mouth with a marker. 🎨
➡️ Stick wool as per choice to make hair
This is a great engaging activity for children to understand what is family and they can play with it too! 🧶
The Little Red Riding Hood
Lets try to make an old fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” super fun
1. Little Red Riding Hood Puppet
Resources: 1 popsicle stick, Red Paper, Yellow paper, Wool, glue
➡️ Cut out a circle with yellow paper for the face and a bigger circle for the hood.
Encourage the child to draw eyes, nose, lips for the face. Stick it to the red hood
Place the wool as strands of hair and glue them.
For the cape, encourage the child to fold the corners of the red rectangle paper
Cut popsicle sticks into two and stick as legs
You can also make some colourful shoes.
Ta Da….Your red riding hood is all set.
2. Paper plate Basket craft
Resources: Paper plate, Paints, colorful strips of paper, Fruit cut outs, Ribbon for bow, glue
➡️Take a paper plate and let the child colour it with his choice of colours. Make a D shaped hole in the paper plate
Now let the child paint the fruit cut outs with the colour of his choice. Stick the colourful ribbon papers in a weave pattern towards the bottom side of the plate.
With the ribbon make a bow and stick it to the top.
Let the child carry this colourful fruit basket.
3. Paper Bag Wolf Craft
Resources: Brown paper bag, ears, nose and nose tip cut outs, glue
➡️ Let the child colour the eyes, nose and nose tip
Now paste them on the base of the brown paper bag
4. Tissue roll firefly craft
Resources: Toilet tissue roll/ black chart paper rolled into tube, rectangle butter paper, white paper for wing shapes, black circle cut out for face, black pipe cleaners, googly eyes, 1 tea light candle.
➡️ Paint the tissue roll into black. Cut the hole up from the bottom and this shall be the glowing belly of the firefly.
Roll up the rectangle of the butter paper that slide it into the paper roll and stick it. Stick the face
Cut the pipe cleaner into appropriate size to make arms, legs and antennas of the firefly. You can stick this using tape.
Now stick the two wings of the firefly together at the back of the paper roll.
Get the tea light and light it. Take this to a dark room to see the glowing firefly effect.
1. Little Red Riding Hood Puppet
Resources: 1 popsicle stick, Red Paper, Yellow paper, Wool, glue
➡️ Cut out a circle with yellow paper for the face and a bigger circle for the hood.
Encourage the child to draw eyes, nose, lips for the face. Stick it to the red hood
Place the wool as strands of hair and glue them.
For the cape, encourage the child to fold the corners of the red rectangle paper
Cut popsicle sticks into two and stick as legs
You can also make some colourful shoes.
Ta Da….Your red riding hood is all set.
2. Paper plate Basket craft
Resources: Paper plate, Paints, colorful strips of paper, Fruit cut outs, Ribbon for bow, glue
➡️Take a paper plate and let the child colour it with his choice of colours. Make a D shaped hole in the paper plate
Now let the child paint the fruit cut outs with the colour of his choice. Stick the colourful ribbon papers in a weave pattern towards the bottom side of the plate.
With the ribbon make a bow and stick it to the top.
Let the child carry this colourful fruit basket.
3. Paper Bag Wolf Craft
Resources: Brown paper bag, ears, nose and nose tip cut outs, glue
➡️ Let the child colour the eyes, nose and nose tip
Now paste them on the base of the brown paper bag
4. Tissue roll firefly craft
Resources: Toilet tissue roll/ black chart paper rolled into tube, rectangle butter paper, white paper for wing shapes, black circle cut out for face, black pipe cleaners, googly eyes, 1 tea light candle.
➡️ Paint the tissue roll into black. Cut the hole up from the bottom and this shall be the glowing belly of the firefly.
Roll up the rectangle of the butter paper that slide it into the paper roll and stick it. Stick the face
Cut the pipe cleaner into appropriate size to make arms, legs and antennas of the firefly. You can stick this using tape.
Now stick the two wings of the firefly together at the back of the paper roll.
Get the tea light and light it. Take this to a dark room to see the glowing firefly effect.
The Very Busy Spider - Marble Art
This is a super fun activity and perfect for toddlers and pre - schoolers
Resources : Empty Box, a small newspaper piece, Black sheet, white paint, google eyes, pipe cleaners and glue.
Parent supervision is compulsory for this activity.
➡️ First put the black paper in a box. Make the white paint thin and roll the marble in the white paint and let the child move the marble on the black sheet on all sides to make a web.
➡️ Now crush the newspaper into a small bowl. Put google eyes and pipe cleaners to make the spider's face complete
Now glue the spider on the web.
This story by Eric Carle is a very beautiful picture book and this multi sensory activity can help the child relate to it.
Resources : Empty Box, a small newspaper piece, Black sheet, white paint, google eyes, pipe cleaners and glue.
Parent supervision is compulsory for this activity.
➡️ First put the black paper in a box. Make the white paint thin and roll the marble in the white paint and let the child move the marble on the black sheet on all sides to make a web.
➡️ Now crush the newspaper into a small bowl. Put google eyes and pipe cleaners to make the spider's face complete
Now glue the spider on the web.
This story by Eric Carle is a very beautiful picture book and this multi sensory activity can help the child relate to it.
Pipe Cleaner Colander
➡️ This activity is an ideal challenge for the child who is able to grasp objects with their whole hand or with thumb and index finger, but isn’t quite ready for more refined fine motor activities such as lacing beads on a string. As with many activities, taking the pipe cleaners out is easier than putting them back in, so it provides a natural grading of challenge for kids at a variety of skill levels.
➡️ Putting the pipe cleaners in encourages precise hand movements and higher level hand-eye coordination than lower level play skills such as stacking two blocks or placing pegs in a board.
➡️ Encourage your child to hold the pipe cleaner with their fingers pointing toward the tip, as opposed to grasping with their fist and turning their arm in so the thumb-side of their hand is facing down.
➡️ Putting the pipe cleaners in encourages precise hand movements and higher level hand-eye coordination than lower level play skills such as stacking two blocks or placing pegs in a board.
➡️ Encourage your child to hold the pipe cleaner with their fingers pointing toward the tip, as opposed to grasping with their fist and turning their arm in so the thumb-side of their hand is facing down.
Leaf Prints
➡️ Collect leaves of various shapes and sizes. Both fresh and fallen leaves will work for this craft.
➡️ Cover your work area with a mat or with newspapers. Prepare different colors of paint on your palette. Add just enough water to make the paint spreadable but not runny.
➡️ Take one leaf. Flip it so that the underside is facing up. Paint the entire surface of the leaf.
➡️ Carefully place the leaf, painted side down, on your paper or fabric. Press firmly for several seconds to transfer the paint from the leaf to the paper or fabric.
➡️ Remove the leaf to reveal a leaf print.
➡️ Cover your work area with a mat or with newspapers. Prepare different colors of paint on your palette. Add just enough water to make the paint spreadable but not runny.
➡️ Take one leaf. Flip it so that the underside is facing up. Paint the entire surface of the leaf.
➡️ Carefully place the leaf, painted side down, on your paper or fabric. Press firmly for several seconds to transfer the paint from the leaf to the paper or fabric.
➡️ Remove the leaf to reveal a leaf print.
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