Do two really easy and simple crafts for Christmas that can be hung on the tree and fall undre the aegis of Educational Art and Crafts
Christmas is a holiday where all kinds of kids crafts are created at home and in the school environment.
Crafts for kids, however should be an activity that should bring fun and excitement to children’s activities aside from adding a bonding to the adults that are doing the projects with them.
Educational arts and crafts is a way of doing crafts with children where they are not blindly copying the adults model but are creating things that they are capable of creating at their own developmental level.
When children create at their own level a number of things occur.
It creates a great feeling about themselves, as who can feel good about crafts projects that are copycat models of someone else’s. When the crafts project is totally created by the kids themselves, it makes them feel much better about themselves.
An additional benefit that educational arts and crafts has is its allowance for much greater creativity.
There is hardly anything more that cramps a child's creativity than being expected to totally copy and adults rendition of a project.
Educational art has a number of parts to it that include lots of activities.
There is the cafeteria style that allows children to choose materials to work with, there is process only art where the process is what counts along with a few more.
The point of it is that all of the crafts under educational arts and crafts should be age appropriate, and allow for freedom of creation and expression.
Explained below are two simple and inexpensive Christmas crafts activities that you can make from items around your home.
The first one uses plastic throwaway cups:
Have the children color all over a cup using permanent markers. The more the cup is covered with markers, the more will be seen when it melts.
When they are done, take a cookie sheet and put the cups upside down on it and put in the over at around 350 degrees. Give them a few minutes so that they have time to melt. Make sure you don't keep them in so long that they completely burn up. The cups and the tray of course, get very hot so the children must be kept away until they cool.
When they are cool, make a hole in the center and use colorful ribbon to hang as an ornament for your tree.
The second activity is a neat way to use all of your old, ready to throw away cd's.
Basically: Have them all decorated and strung up with pretty ribbon.
There are myriad methods of beautifying the cd's.
You can color with permanent markers, glue and glitter them, collage over them, decoupage over them, and decorate them with whatever shiny, decorative materials you can find.
Once they are done, get some pretty ribbon and hang them from your tree.
If you want to see what a crafts acitivity done in the cafeteria style is like then check out this Hanukkah Crafts collage
