Drawing with water: outside on the sidewalk with brushes, or some other acceptable place that will darken but dry well. (Aquadoodles are good for this age too if you want to buy.)
If you are purchasing, that is also when someone gave us the Crayola markers that only color on their special paper. Have to ration the paper, and it's a little odd, but very satisfying for them if they have older siblings coloring but are not yet trustworthy with regular coloring stuff.
Homemade playdough. (Read: edible! Very salty, but not dangerous.)
Feeling spendthrift? Scotch tape and scrap paper.
Hmm. More ideas if I think of them. (I have younger and older right now, so I'm trying to remember....)
journey likes to "maint" (her word for paint) the house (outside) with a paint brush & a bucket of water. she also loves playdoh & drawing with a pen or pencil.
She mostly enjoys markers on paper (or herself), but would paint more if I let her.
I know ds did some interesting craft projects when he was 2, but what, I'm don't remember. Mostly stuff involving paint.
Oh dd has used fabric markers to color a small stuffed animal.
I think ds liked to use a gluestick & glue little pieces of tissue paper at that age.
Oh yea, dd enjoys sticking stickers on stuff as well. She also does sidewalk chalk.
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What kind of fingerweaving? Actually talk to me about embroidery too. I would love those for a two or three year old. My just-turned-four is suddenly fascinated with the idea of knitting, sewing, embroidery, etc. and I'm still trying to figure out what to use. Thanks!
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paint, chalk, marbling, embroidery, cut and paste, modeling clay, fingerweaving
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What kind of fingerweaving? Actually talk to me about embroidery too. I would love those for a two or three year old. My just-turned-four is suddenly fascinated with the idea of knitting, sewing, embroidery, etc. and I'm still trying to figure out what to use. Thanks!
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oh....not quite a craft, but lacing cards. we have M&D animals & she loves them......
YES! Ok - please elaborate for the clueless... DS has suddenly taken an interest in my crocheting, and I would love to get him started on something involving yarn. So what exactly is a lacing card, and what exactly is fingerweaving - and what other options remain? I KNOW I could go to Michael's and spend money on kits, but how might I go about such things - maybe putting together a kit myself? Maybe that's impractical. We're just REALLY low on the spending money lately... So just fill me in! Thanks!
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a lot of the crafts i mentioned are in the oakmeadow prek and k (with supples and instructions)
for sarah i just give her a large tapestry needle (blunt) with yarn as thread and some openweave cloth (like burlap or cheesecloth) and let her go to town
heres my sig form a couple of weeks ago when both lyl and sarah were playing at embroidering
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oh also get chalk, oil pastels, crayons, markers, finger paints, water colours, acrylics, colour pencils etc and then get canvas or canvas board and let them go to town.
sarah also likes using safety scissors on foam board and felt to make her own shapes and dolls
sand art! get coloured sand, put glue all over a canvas, etc and let them throw the sand on it.
nature collages - you know those flowers, seeds, pieces of grass etc they collect when they are outside? have them glue them to some foamboard. or tie them on string and hang them from a hanger for a nature mobile.
tearing out pictures from magazines and gluing them
gluing tissue paper to make suncatchers
i have some more ideas but the children are wanting lunch
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So today we took a family trip to Michael's to see what we could see. We saw a very simple model truck kit for a BUCK! Yeah... made in China... hard to stomach what they could have possibly paid the people that helped make this if they are selling it for a buck. But, couldn't resist! We were very impressed with how well, how hard, and how consistently DS worked at this until it was all done!
it looks like Levi really enjoyed that!!
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