Fun creative activities
15 Fun and Exciting Creative Activities for Kids
As any mother would know, it is hard to keep your child occupied for long periods of time. Children usually have a notoriously small attention span, making it difficult for their caretakers or parents to breathe in peace. It is especially beneficial to have some activities lined up for your child if you crave some time to yourself and also want to help your child improve in the meantime.
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Activities for children have to be chosen carefully, as a lot of their mental and intellectual growth depends on what they do during the formative years. An exercise that can work the brain while also intellectually stimulating the child can have a telling effect on their development.
Therefore, it is imperative that parents choose the activities that their children do with great care.
Fun Creative Activities for Children
Here are some of the best creative activities for children:
1. Cut and Glue
Using scissors is an activity that all children take some time to learn and is an important motor skill too. This is one of the creative craft activities for kids which helps them build their creativity and also create memorable pieces of art.
What You Will Need:
- A pair of scissors
- Coloured paper with predetermined shapes
- Glue
- Drawing paper
How To Perform:
- Encourage the child to cut through the predetermined shapes on the coloured paper.
- You can start with simple shapes and make them complex once your child gets a hang of it.
- Let him stick the cutouts on the drawing paper to create an artwork.
2. Sticker Fun
Stickers were some of the best aspects of all our childhoods, and they also have beneficial effects on the child.
Stickers help build motor skills, as the child concentrates on peeling it off without damaging the paper body, and it also teaches them to be patient.
What You Will Need:
- Stickers
- Drawing Paper/ or a book
How To Perform:
- Give a wad of stickers to your child, and encourage him to peel them off and stick them the way they like in a book or on a drawing paper.
- This helps build their creativity, and the resulting artwork is sure to be one to keep for ages.
3. Raised Salt Painting
A tried and tested favourite among children, salt painting is ridiculously fun to do and also an activity that helps improves the child’s creativity. Salt painting can bring out a real potential for art among children, no matter how disinterested they seem at first.
What You Will Need:
- Epsom Salt
- Food colour in varied colours
- Glue
- Drawing paper
- Pencil
- Paper plates
How To Perform:
- On a paper plate, add a few drops of food colour on some Epsom salt and mix.
Repeat this process for all the colours the child wants. - Let your child draw his favourite shapes and patterns on the drawing paper.
- Help him apply glue on the designs and then pour the coloured salt over the glued areas.
- Let it dry.
4. Drawing With Oil Pastel
Although it is not strictly an activity meant for children, oil pastel painting is highly stimulating and also fun to do. Encourage your child to draw various shapes on a canvas, and fill it in a variety of ways.
What You Will Need:
- Oil pastels
- Drawing paper
- Baby oil
- Cotton buds
How To Perform:
- Let your kid draw his favourite things on a drawing paper with the oil pastels and fill in the colour. Encourage him to make as many shapes as he wants.
- For a fine, painting-like art effect, give him some baby oil and help him smear it on the painting with a cotton bud.
- The baby oil can make any art look vibrant and deserving of being hung on the refrigerator.
5. The Back-And-Forth Drawing Game
Creative games for kids, such as this one, require active participation from the parent, and can greatly help in bringing your child closer to you. This game involves drawing a common image alternatively, so children are forced to think on their feet and make stuff up as the game progresses. This stimulates creativity in your child, as the game becomes harder with each step.
What You Will Need:
- Colour pencils/ crayons
- Drawing paper
How To Perform:
- Start by drawing an unassuming picture on a paper, and pass it onto your child.
- The child is to add something of his own accord to the image.
- Both of you then proceed to build on the drawings of the previous person.
6. Playdough Modelling
Playdough has been a mainstay in toy stores for ages. Not only is it cheap, but it is also a highly fun and creative item to play with. Creative art activities for preschoolers, like this one, are simple.
Just provide some playdough to your child, and let his imagination take over. Soon, the child will be seen making shapes of increasing complexities. Playdough easily stimulates the brain and makes the child think hard to make different shapes.
What You Will Need:
- Playdough
- Poke-ins
- Playdough mats
How To Perform:
- Give your child some playdough and let him make shapes of his choice.
- You may sit next to him and assist or have fun making your own shapes.
- Encourage him to use poke-ins, and playdough mats to make textures on his shapes.
7. Marble Painting
Marble paintings are fun to do and great to look at, so your child is sure to not get bored with this activity any time soon.
What You Will Need:
- Watercolour
- Drawing paper
- Some marbles
How To Perform:
- Encourage your child to dip the marbles in the paint and draw shapes on the paper.
- The child can roll the marbles to create interesting patterns or hold them in between his fingers and carefully draw his favourite shapes.
8. Water Balloon Painting
Water balloon painting is another great way to add new textures and techniques in your child’s activities. With this activity, your child can learn how to play with textures.
What You Will Need:
- Some water balloons.
- Watercolour
- Paper plates
- Drawing paper/ canvas
- How To Perform
How to Perform:
- Start with getting your child to fill some water in the water balloons. You may help them tie the opening so that the water doesn’t spill while he is painting.
- You can have him fill different amounts of water to give him more sizes to experiment with.
- Remove your child’s favourite colours on different disposable paper plates.
- Let your child dip the water balloons in the colour. He can dab the balloons or drag and roll them as he pleases on the drawing paper.
9. Elephant Toothpaste
Elephant toothpaste fits the bill perfectly as one of the best creative thinking activities for kids. Watch your child curiously play with jumbo-sized toothpaste-like substance, which is created out of harmless ingredients.
What You Will Need:
- Safety goggles
- Dry Yeast
- A plastic bottle
- Liquid soap, preferably dish soap
- 6% peroxide
- Edible colour
- Warm water
How To Perform:
- Help your child put on the safety goggles.
- Take some 6% peroxide in the bottle.
- Add dish soap and colour.
- Stir the bottle.
- In another container, take some yeast and add warm water to it.
- Add the yeast mix to the bottle with peroxide, dish soap and colour.
- Step back with your child and watch the mixture lather up and flow out of the bottle in wonderful shapes and forms!
10. Shaving Cream Playdough
For a more interactive creative game for kids, you can choose to make dough out of shaving cream along with your child.
Colour the dough in various colours, and watch your child thrive creatively.
What You Will Need:
- 1/2 cup of cornstarch
- 1/2 cup of shaving cream
- Food colour
How To Perform:
- Help your child mix and knead the cornstarch, shaving cream and edible colour together.
- The dough would still look crumbly after a while but will be able to hold shapes.
- Let your child then create desired shapes and patterns with this dough.
11. Making Masks
Making masks can help kids truly think out of the box and use their imagination in creative ways.
What You Will Need:
- A construction plate
- A pair of scissors
- Glue
- Watercolour/ crayons
- A pencil
- Two rubber bands
How To Perform:
- Get your child to mark areas that need to be cut out on the construction plate (for your eyes, nose and mouth).
- Help him cut the plate as per the markings.
- Now, let your child colour the mask his way.
- Poke two holes on opposite sides of the plate.
- Tie a rubber band on each side, leaving a loop to put on the mask around the ears.
12. Finger Painting
Finger painting has traditionally been one of the messiest activities a child can do, but also one of the most creative.
What You Will Need:
- Watercolour
- Paint palette
- Drawing paper or canvas
How To Perform:
- Spread some newspaper on a table before your child starts painting.
- Remove all the colours he wants and let him paint shapes and patterns of his choice with his fingers.
13. Playing School
Playing school at home may not seem appealing, but believe it or not, your child will turn out to love it soon enough.
Things You Will Need:
- Some stationary
- A roll-up blackboard/ whiteboard
- Some chalk/ whiteboard markers
How To Perform
- Let your child play the roles of whomever he likes; let him choose if he wants to be the teacher or the student, or the principal or the school nurse.
- Make him alternate various roles until he is satisfied with the dialogue and the outcome.
14. Glowing Dough
Children seem to have an attraction towards anything that glows, and glowing playdough is no different. This activity is advisable for older children who can handle being around the stovetop and are exposed to some amount of cooking. Nonetheless, you need to be around them at all times to prevent any accidents.
What You Will Need:
- 4 to 5 cups of water
- 5 cups of flour
- 2 cups of table salt
- 2/3rd cup of vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoon of cream of tartar
- Edible colour
- Glow in the dark paint
- Blacklight
How To Perform:
- On a stovetop and on a medium flame, mix all the ingredients except the edible colour and the glow in the dark paint.
- Let the mixture cook till it starts coming together like a gooey dough.
- Get it off the stovetop and let it cool a bit.
- While it is still a little warm, add the food colour and the glow in the dark paint.
- Knead the dough properly.
- You can store in a ziplock, and whenever your child wants to play, he can have some fun making shapes with the dough with some blacklight.
15. Toy Excavation
To make for a truly memorable evening for your child, excavating toys are a great idea. This can improve their motor and reasoning skills.
What You Will Need:
- Some plastic toys
- Utensils
- Water
- A dropper
- Some saltwater
- Brushes
How To Perform:
- Take enough water in the utensils and drop the toys in them. You may choose to drop one toy in each utensil or all of them in one large utensil.
- Keep the utensils in the freezer and let the water freeze.
- Then, remove the utensils, loosen the ice and drop it in a tray.
- Make your child excavate the toys carefully with the help of some saltwater, a dropper and some brushes.
These creative activities will help you keep your energetic toddler happily engaged for long. By trying out these creative activities, his motor skills, reasoning skills, and observational skills will develop. If your child shows interest in craft activities, you can also get him craft kits too. The activities in the craft kits can help your child nurture his talents.
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These interesting activities can truly help your child have fun, learn something new, and also improve their cognitive and motor skills.
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The Best Ideas for Kids/Dream a Little Bigger
The phrase parents dread the most comes in a short, two-word statement, but it packs a gut punch: "I'm bored." Those words can come at any time, at any place, no matter how many toys they have or no matter what the screen-time situation is.
But parents don't have to fear boredom any longer with this list of the best activities for kids in 2022, meant to cut ennui off at the pass. Most of them only require materials that are probably already somewhere around the house (though you might have to supplement with a specific art supply or two). They're designed to get kids to use their creativity and imaginations, or get them up and active, or have them practice certain skills like matching or memory or some combination of all of the above. But most of all, they're designed to be fun, which means they'll get so lost in their projects that they'll forget they were ever at a loss for something to do to begin with.
Not enough boredom-busters? If the kids in question are more into crafts than activities, we have suggestions for all kinds of crafts for kids in every season, including summer crafts for kids, fall crafts for kids and winter crafts for kids (and also projects for holidays like Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, Mother's Day and Father's Day). If they're drawn more to the activities than the crafts, you can find more ideas for backyard games, at-home science experiments, learning activities for preschoolers, learning activities for toddlers, fun activities for toddlers and activities for 1-year-olds. No matter what they're into, they'll find something to amuse themselves.
Avengers Bookmarks
Crafts by Amanda
Turn their love of superheroes into a love of reading with these clever craft-stick bookmarks. Just note that they work best with jumbo craft sticks. (Don't worry if you can't draw free-hand — the tutorial has patterns.
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Get the tutorial at Crafts By Amanda »
Bucket-List Wreath
Design Improvised
This is an activity that sparks ideas for future activities. The clothespins that make up this wreath have suggestions for fun days out written on them, like "beach day" or "go to the museum" — aka some "bucket list" items — and every time your family is staring down a day with nothing to do, you can always head over together and pick one out. Refresh the clothespins for summer vacation, for winter break or any other time you expect a lot of downtime.
Get the tutorial at Design Improvised »
Bubble Refill Station
Hello, Wonderful
Those bubbles? They run out in a heartbeat. By creating (and, if the mood strikes, decorating) a DIY bubble refill station, kids will have a useful work of art and a way to re-up their bubble solution supply without parental involvement.
Get the tutorial at Hello, Wonderful »
DIY Bath Bombs
A Beautiful Mess
Tweens and teens will love making their own homemade bath bombs (which is a great idea for a birthday party with a built-in favor).
Once they've perfected the technique, they'll love experimenting with shapes and fragrances.
Get the tutorial at A Beautiful Mess »
Felt Flower Bouquet
Happiness Is Homemade
The best thing about these felt flowers is they don't require any sewing. Kids can use them to decorate their rooms, put in a pencil cup or use as a bookmark, but they also make good Mother's Day gifts!
Get the tutorial at Happiness Is Homemade »
Backyard Treasure Hunt
Alice & Lois
Give them early map-reading skills by giving them a homemade path to treasure or prize. Then, flip it and have kids make their own maps for you to follow.
Get the tutorial at Alice & Lois »
Pool Noodle Pom-Pom Launcher
Kid Friendly Things to Do
What do you get when you combine a pool noodle slice and a latex balloon? You get something that sends pom-poms flying across the sky! The poms are so soft, you don't have to worry about damage as kids send them everywhere!
Get the tutorial at Kid Friendly Things to Do »
Spider Web Search
Jamie Reimer/Hands on As We Grow
These kids were challenged with finding bug stickers hidden along the string web.
Stepping in and around the web is great gross motor practice, and they were given a list of bugs to find, which also made it a matching activity.
Get the tutorial at Hands On as We Grow »
Finger Puppets
Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom
There's no sewing involved to make these fun finger puppets (but kids might need some help with the hot glue gun). Then they can make up their own stories and put on a puppet show.
Get the tutorial at Scattered Thoughts of a Crafty Mom »
Bath Paint
I Heart Arts 'n' Crafts
With just two ingredients, you can whip up some DIY paint that doesn't stain bathtubs and rinses down the drain. Then your toddler artist will be so busy making a masterpiece that they won't notice their hair being scrubbed.
Get the tutorial at I Heart Arts 'n' Crafts »
Craft Stick Trivia Game
Dream a Little Bigger
Kids will love answering (or even coming up with) the questions for this extremely portable game.
Once it's done, you can break it out while waiting for dinner, at a doctor's office or anywhere else they might need to kill a few minutes. (Not a trivia fan? Don't worry — the tutorial has plenty of questions.)
Get the tutorial at Dream a Little Bigger »
Rainbow Walking
Emma Owl
This is the type of art project that also gets kids up and moving — a win-win. The developer of this craft even did another version on an apron as a gift for Granny.
Get the tutorial at Emma Owl »
Backpack Tags
Handmade Charlotte
Kids will be able to spot their backpacks a mile away when they have a personalized charm dangling from the zipper. They can also make some to give away to friends.
Get the tutorial at Handmade Charlotte »
Summer Fun Journal
Makes and Takes
The boredom-busting capacity of this homemade journal is two-fold: First, they get to make and decorate it themselves.
Then, they can use it to record their best summer memories.
Get the tutorial at Makes and Takes »
Paper House Village
Club Crafted
If the kids have so many toys, they might need a whole village to roam around in — and this one can be made with colored cardstock (littler ones might have to lose some of the definition in the window panes if they are too young to use a craft knife, but squares work just fine). A rainbow of houses is certain to look great in a playroom. This one was created to be a holiday village, but without the festive elements it'll just be a colorful town.
Get the tutorial at Club Crafted »
Sensory Sorting
Jamie Reimer/Hands On as We Grow
For this activity, two colors of buttons were placed in a storage bag filled with clear gel. Pushing the buttons into the proper spaces is a sorting activity, a color-recognition activity and a sensory activity all in one.
Get the tutorial at Hands On as We Grow »
Faux Flower Garland
Mike Garten
The secret to this flower garden is cupcake liners! When it's done, kids can use them as garlands around their rooms, or as a summery table decoration for a party.
To make: Have kids fold dyed cupcake liners in half and cut out petal and fringe shapes. Then fold a piece of floral wire in half and twist around the faux flower stamen. Poke the wire through the center of three to four paper liners. Finish it off by wrapping floral tape around the base of the liners and bringing it all the way down the stem.
Melted Pony Bead Wind Chimes
No Time for Flash Cards
Kids love seeing the cause-and-effect, before-and-after of melting down pony beads into different molds. When they're in a proper shape, the melted beads can be strung into wind chimes.
Get the tutorial at No Time for Flash Cards »
Fairy Leaf Puppets
Willowday
To start off this project, send kids off on a nature walk to have them gather materials and supplies.
Then, they can unleash their creativity at home to make these beautiful puppets.
Get the tutorial at Willowday »
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Pool Noodle Boats
The Best Ideas for Kids
When those pool noodles start to get worn out, give them a second life by cutting them into floating boats, decorated with straws and sails. The good thing is one noodle can make a whole fleet, which you can then sail in a bath or kiddie pool with small toys as the passengers.
Get the tutorial at The Best Ideas for Kids »
Colored Salt Art
Buggy and Buddy
With food coloring, salt and squeeze bottles, your family can hit the driveway, sidewalk or patio and make masterpieces inspired by artist Motoi Yamamoto. It's the perfect upgrade when sidewalk chalk gets boring.
Get the tutorial at Buggy and Buddy »
Marbled Paper
Studio DIY
This is a fun activity that gives kids a chance to dig in their hands as they make art.
Fill a tub with foaming shaving cream, add food coloring or paint on the tip, then swirl with a butter knife or stick, and when you lay a piece of paper on top, it comes away with a cool, marbled pattern.
Get the tutorial at Studio DIY »
Novelty Snow Globes
Aww Sam
With oven-bake clay, kids can put trendy items into globes and make a desk accessory with a cactus, donut, hot dog, pineapple or whatever they can imagine.
Get the tutorial at Aww Sam »
Sensory Bin
SDI ProductionsGetty Images
Fill a plastic tub with dry rice, raw pasta, Kinetic Sand or water beads, and let the kids go to town scooping, pouring and digging for little treasures you've hidden. These sensory bins expose them to different textures and helps them work on their fine motor coordination.
Get the tutorial »
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Orange Peel Bird Feeder
Typically Simple
Kids can whip up these bird feeders from birdseed, popcorn and an orange peel.
When it's hung, give them a sketchbook and some art supplies and see if they can draw and identify the visitors that stop by.
Get the tutorial at Typically Simple »
Ice Dye Hoodie
Alice and Lois
You've done tie-dying, now see what happens when you ice-dye your hoodies and tote bags. A project best attempted with older ones, ice-dying involves pre-treating fabric, then putting powdered dye on top of ice, which makes cool patterns when it melts.
Get the tutorial at Alice and Lois »
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Paper Chain Wall Hanging
White House Crafts
We know tweens and teens love nothing more than personalizing their rooms, and wall art made from paper chains is a versatile DIY for these purposes. They can use the tutorial to get the rainbow pattern, or sketch out their own ideas on graph paper.
Get the tutorial at White House Crafts »
Color Scavenger Hunt
I Heart Crafty Things
Help toddlers learn to recognize colors by sending them off on a hue-based scavenger hunt. This can work as an indoor or outdoor activity — all you have to do is send them off with a sheet of colors, and they have to find nearby objects that match.
Get the tutorial at I Heart Crafty Things »
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"Space" Crayons
Minieco
There's just something about sparkly crayons in made in celestial-shape molds that makes coloring time extra exciting. Plus, you make them with the ends of old crayons that kids never want to color with anyway!
Get the tutorial at Minieco »
Pool Noodle Obstacle Course
Andrea Yi
You don't actually need to change into your swimsuit to have fun with pool noodles — you can use them to create obstacles that kids have to climb through, crawl under, balance on, or jump over.
Get the tutorial at Raising Dragons »
Jellyfish
Craftiments
Paper plates and yarn transform into these denizens of the deep. If you use glow-in-the-dark acrylic paint, you can even see their "bioluminescence" in action when you turn out the lights.
Get the tutorial at Craftiments »
Tattoo-Patterned Planter
A Kailo Chic Life
If you have a printer, you can get some printable temporary tattoo paper and use it to dress up old planters, mugs, pencil cups and the like. (And if you don't have a printer, you can just use a lot of little, store-bought temp tattoos.) Tweens will have a great time finding patterns that match their bedrooms or school supplies.
Get the tutorial at A Kailo Chic Life »
Lava Lamp
Aww Sam
Lava lamps are back, baby, in a groovy new way. And if you want the homemade look, you can do it yourself with vegetable oil, food coloring and antacid tablets.
Get the tutorial at Aww Sam »
Fairy Bells
Buzzmills
Decorate twigs with embroidery floss, beads and jingling bells to add a bit of whimsy to your yard. Listen to see if the fairies come out to ring the bells.
Get the tutorial at Buzzmills »
Sun Print Leaf Art
Design Improvised
It's an art project and a chance to brush up on their STEM skills all at once. Gather leaves or other interestingly-shaped natural materials on an outdoor adventure, and then use them to make prints on sun-sensitive paper.
Get the tutorial at Design Improvised »
"I Spy" Bag
Six Sisters' Stuff
Transform a windowed pencil case into an armchair treasure hunt with this no-sew project. Fill the case with poly pellets to obscure the treasures.
Get the tutorial at Six Sisters' Stuff »
Mini Lid Banjos
The Craft Train
These may not sound like the real thing, but they look adorable — and you can dress them up basically any way you want.
They're the perfect doll-sized instrument for a pretend band.
Get the tutorial at The Craft Train »
Friendship Bracelets
Marisa Edghill
These old camp crafts are back and better than ever. See if your fingers can remember how to make spiral staircases, chevrons, diamonds and waves, then teach your kids and let them pick their own color combinations.
Get the tutorial at Omiyage Blogs »
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Flight School
Philip Friedman/Studio D
These paper planes are perfect for kids — just fold and let your imagination fly. Increase the challenge by making some cardboard targets for the planes to fly through.
Get the tutorial »
Paper Bracelets
Picklebums
We love a two-for-one activity: First, paint abstract shapes with watercolors, and then have older kids cut the paper into strips and fold them into wearable art.
Get the tutorial at Picklebums »
Thumbprint Family Tree
Philip Friedman/Studio D
Get in touch with your roots via a hands-on genealogical project. Dot the print-out template with thumbprint leaves, then start mapping extended relatives galore.
Get the tutorial »
Felt Elastic Bookmarks
Cutesy Crafts
With bookmarks this cute, they might even be motivated to do more reading. You can whip these up in a snap with some felt, googly eyes, glue and elastic.
Get the tutorial at Cutesy Crafts »
Glowing Fairy Jar
MomDot
Glitter and glow sticks make it possible to "capture" a fairy and watch as her magic illuminates a colorful jar. Shake it up for some more magic.
Get the tutorial at MomDot »
Owl Puppet
Merrilee Liddiard
Handprint turkey, step aside: A new paper craft can rule the roost.
Add string to the cup's sides, and you've got yourself a feathered cap, too.
Get the tutorial »
Race Track
Juliette's Garden
Take your washi tape stash to the floor to create a colorful, customizable race track for tiny cars — and a place to park them when playtime is over.
Get the tutorial at Le Jardin de Juliette »
Foam Paint
Dabbles & Babbles
This three-ingredient recipe is a little bit of art, a little bit of science. The paintable foam (which kids can pipe out of plastic bags) hardens overnight into super-cool, puffed-up masterpieces.
Get the tutorial at Dabbles & Babbles »
Temporary Tattoos
Hello, Wonderful
You can use printable tattoo paper to celebrate your kid's love of doodling by making temp tats out of her own art.
(And, go ahead: Let her put a few on you, too.)
Get the tutorial at Hello, Wonderful »
Glow Bubbles
Paging Supermom
Adding ink from a highlighter to some bubble solution makes bubbles that glow under a blacklight. Ready for some glow-in-the-dark fun?
Get the tutorial at Paging Supermom »
Polka Dot Slime
Fun at Home With Kids
Slime is the trend that's never going away, and the only thing better than making a mom-approved mess is doing so with the extra fun of polka dots. (Can you guess what they're made from? That's right, more slime!)
Get the tutorial at Fun at Home With Kids »
Mini Volcanoes
Momdot
This explosive science experiment (disguised as permission to make a mess) is a lot more palatable when contained in a glass dish. Add food coloring for colorful lava.
Get the tutorial at MomDot »
Artsy Collages
MollyMooCrafts.com
It's amazing how a piece of paper loaded up with watercolor doodles, stickers and pictures from thrifted design books becomes instant art when framed.
Get the tutorial at Molly Moo Crafts »
Window Art
And Next Comes L
Don't worry — we're not suggesting you surrender your patio doors to your kids' artistic ambitions. This activity only requires transparency sheets and water, so it's totally removable.
Get the tutorial at And Next Comes L »
Tissue Box Monsters
The Best Ideas for Kids
You probably have empty tissue boxes lying around the house already. When you're done, use the extra pom-poms to "feed" the monster. Turn it into a minute-to-win-it game by seeing how many pom-poms players can toss into the monster's mouth in 60 seconds.
Get the tutorial at The Best Ideas for Kids »
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Story Stones
Handmade Mood
Take rock painting a step further: After the paint's dry, the images on the stones become characters in a story everyone can tell together.
Get the tutorial at Handmade Mood »
Spiky Sponges
Endlessly Inspired
When skipping through the sprinkler loses its charm, pull out these homemade spiky sponges for a riff on water balloons that won't cause bruising.
Get the tutorial at Endlessly Inspired »
Nature Craft Bugs
The Craft Train
Your kids can use things they find in nature to replicate what they see in the great outdoors. The secret to this craft is using a coat of Modge Podge to make the bugs shiny (and keep the leaves from drying out).
Get the tutorial at The Craft Train »
Tie-Dye Spin Art
Mike Garten
Transform your salad spinner into a carnival-style spin art machine. Just make sure you fill squeeze bottles with washable paint, in case splatters land outside the coffee filter canvases.
Get the tutorial »
Origami Frogs
Itsy Bitsy Fun
These paper frogs really jump! When the fun of folding origami frogs is over, extend playtime with sidewalk games to see which hopper can leap the farthest.
Get the tutorial at Itsy Bitsy Fun »
Fairy Garden
Mike Garten
To you, it's just glitter; to them, it's magical pixie dust. Sprinkle some over your pint-sized garden and wait for the fairies to come out and play!
Get the tutorial »
Outdoor Concert
Fun at Home With Kids
Thrift store finds become a backyard music station (and save your everyday cookware from your little maestro's enthusiastic playing).
With a few modifications, you can probably set up an indoor version of this one-man band wall, too.
Get the tutorial at Fun at Home With Kids »
Magic Bubble Wands
Babble Dabble Do
Fashion straws into 3D shapes for an activity that's one part at-home science experiment, one part silly fun with bubbles. With practice, you can make square and triangular bubbles!
Get the tutorial at Babble Dabble Do »
Water Balloon Batting Station
iCandy Handmade
Because nothing says "summer" quite like a bucket of water balloons and America's pastime. Play ball! (And get soaked!)
Get the tutorial at iCandy Handmade »
Skee Ball
Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls
Dump out the laundry baskets for an indoor arcade game. Launched off a cardboard ramp, plastic balls score major points with bored kiddos.
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Funfetti Play Dough
Smart School House
Skip the cupcakes and make this sprinkle-packed, two-ingredient play dough instead. The mixture is even edible (but nearly all sugar, so don't turn your back on little ones for too long).
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Pool Noodle Water Wall
Teaching Mama
When they start using pool noodles as makeshift swords, tie the toys to a pegboard and hold a good, clean water race instead. Just be sure to keep the towels handy.
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Soap Boat
I Heart Naptime
File this under genius parenting hacks: A piece of rain gutter picked up at the hardware store becomes a slick racetrack when you add water and an adorable soap boat.
All kids get to make their own flag!
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Rainbow Bubble Snakes
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In a bit of bubble magic, a dish soap solution morphs into a crazy-cool growing snake. Add some food coloring to watch the snake emerge in cool colors.
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Kiddie Car Wash
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The old backyard sprinkler gets a major upgrade with this kiddie car wash, which uses PVC pipes and a hose connector to become the ultimate backyard car wash. Your kids will have endless fun running between the sponges and pool toys.
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Falling Leaves Snow Globe
The Soccer Mom Blog
Who says snow globes are just for the winter? Kids can make this autumn variety with foil leaves and glycerin, and then use it when they need a moment of calm focus.
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Dress-Up Mermaid Tail
Ikat Bag
You'll probably have to help with the sewing on this one, but the kids can help design and craft their own slip-on, slip-off mermaid tail for pretend undersea adventures.
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Dmitrieva Valentina Gennadievna: Fascinating activities for creative girls
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About the product
What is this book about
+ a wonderful collection of promotional stickers and colorful illustrations.
"Fascinating activities for creative girls" is an amazing, beautiful, bright book with which the child completes developmental tasks and learns to evaluate his progress. nine0003
Who will be interested in this book
A colorfully illustrated book of developmental tasks will delight girls and their girlfriends.
What are the features of this book
Fun educational games + wonderful collection of promotional stickers.
All girls love to play with stickers! With our book, this game will turn into a useful and exciting activity - play, think, pick up stickers.
The child will be able to celebrate his successes with colorful encouraging stickers. nine0003
Wonderful book with encouraging stickers will impress any charming girl!
Annotation
"Fun activities for creative girls" - a wonderful color book of educational games + a wonderful collection of encouraging stickers. An excellent opportunity to show imagination and ingenuity, solve puzzles, go through mazes and complete interesting tasks with pictures.
And funny multi-colored encouraging stickers will allow young readers to independently evaluate their progress. Every girl dreams of receiving such a book as a gift. nine0003
Only for charming dreamers! NOT for sale to parents of boys.
For preschool age.
Characteristics
- Author:
- Valentina Dmitrieva
- series:
- Entertaining books with stickers
- Section:
- Books with stickers 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 9000 900
- Year:
- 2020
- Number of pages:
- 64
- Binding:
- Soft (3)
- Format:
- 210x280 mm
- Weight:
- 0.23 KG 9000 Kg 9000 Kg 9000 Kg 9000 Kg 9000 Kg 9000 Kg 9000 Kg 9000 Kg 9000 Kg 9000 for the review
Yulia Kashikhina
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ru This series of books for boys and girls was ordered for gifts for children in kindergarten. Great purchase!!! A4 size books, fine paper, bright pictures. On each turn there is an individual lesson: where there is a puzzle, on the other turn there are already stickers, then there are exercises for logical thinking and ingenuity. The child was very pleased with the gift! Recommend!!! nine0003
Dmitry Mirny
A cute book with a lot of different games, and there are additionally stickers - just as cute and bright, in fact encouraging - for correctly completed tasks. My daughter is 5 years old, she is delighted with the book, some tasks are difficult, but she copes with them quite well
Fascinating games to develop the creative abilities of younger students
Innate quality
Of course, much that we have is in our genes and is inherited, including creative traits.
If your life is connected with art in any of its manifestations, then be prepared that your child will have the same talent and, most likely, can follow in your footsteps.
Acquired ability
If you don't have it in your blood, then there is always an option to develop this or that talent in yourself.
Creativity develops in the process of creative activity.
The formation of any creative ability is not only the development of a narrow focus, but the development of many aspects of the personality: thinking, psychological characteristics, emotional behavior, etc. At the same time, all children develop individually and with their own characteristics.
There are times when a person is simply not given even the minimum ability for a particular type of activity. But this does not mean that you are mediocre and mediocre. If something is difficult for you, then in another area you, on the contrary, will succeed.
nine0003 For example, my friend can't draw at all. He tried to learn at school, in courses, master classes, but everything ended in failure. Due to the fact that he has poorly developed spatial thinking, fine arts are not for him.
But at the same time he sings and does vocals well. Remember that a talented person is not always talented in everything.
Peculiarities of age
At primary school age, children enjoy playing various kinds of games. This is one of the main methods of elementary school. Depending on the content of the games, children receive certain knowledge. nine0003
That is, at an older age, children can simply be given a learning task to complete. In the lower grades, this condition will not work. The kids just don't care. The teacher needs to transform the learning task into a game one. In this case, children can be interested.
Games
My friend, a teacher, studied and tried a huge number of games in her teaching activities, and made a list of the most interesting and effective.
nine0003 Making sentences
You randomly give a child three words that are completely unrelated. For example, hanger, flower, wooden. The child needs to make a sentence from these words. A creative answer can be considered one that contains non-standard connections. For example:
a scarf hung on a wooden hanger, which descended as if a flower were dropping its leaves. This exercise is best done not in groups, but individually. The exercise helps to develop a new vision for everyday things, that is, to help you look at different situations from a different angle. nine0003
Expressing an idea differently
Give the child a simple phrase. For example: it was a rainy morning. Ask to paraphrase it without using the original words or distorting the meaning of the sentence. Such a task develops not only creative abilities, but also vocabulary and literacy of speech.
The above two exercises can be classified as verbal-creative. Next, we will talk about group games.
Picture game
The point is that you agree with the children to “draw” a picture. For example, landscape. Each child guesses who he will be: the sun, a tree, etc. The first child comes out and says who he is (cloud). He chooses who will come out next, and asks: "Who are you"? He answers. nine0003
The action continues until the last person. Then each child performs a certain action in accordance with who he is in the picture. This task allows you to develop acting skills, get rid of embarrassment. Also, this exercise is aimed at uniting the class / group, identifying the leader and outsiders.
How to get out of the situation?
Imagine any problematic situation in life. For example, let’s say your shoes ripped while walking. Discuss the problem with the children. nine0003
In this way you will be able to understand who thinks in a standard way (take it to the workshop), and who else, creatively (wrap the soles with laces). In the future, you can keep in mind which approach, according to the results, is suitable for each child.
Architect
Imagine that a child is an architect. He received an order - a house project. There are several completely unrelated words written on the sheet. For example, cloud, cat, shoe, circle. These words are the wishes of the client, the reflection of which he wants to see in the project. nine0003
Maybe the house will be in the form of a shoe with windows in the form of clouds, and on the lawn there will be a fountain in the form of a cat? The main thing is to let go of your imagination and create. This task will help open the visual and design abilities of the child, as well as develop spatial thinking. You can then ask your child to introduce and promote your project. In this case, oratory will develop.
Expressive movements
This game is best played in groups. Children are divided into two teams. A child comes out from one team and depicts some emotion: delight, joy, sadness, grief, fear, etc. Players on the opposite team must guess the word.
The game brings out artistic talents. nine0003 “Trace your palm and revive”
Children independently trace their left hand on a piece of paper. The teacher offers to turn the silhouette into some kind of figure. The sheet with the silhouette can be rotated as you like.
The story of an old teapot
Children gather in a circle, invent and tell each other what an old teapot can tell about their life. This is a great exercise to develop creativity. In fact, children come up with a whole life story from beginning to end. nine0003
Children have such a crazy fantasy that they just don't compose. In groups, children laugh, have fun and thus get even closer.
I would like to encourage parents and teachers in various institutions to develop all kinds of abilities in children. Every child has such a huge number of talents, but, unfortunately, half of them remain hidden.
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