Kids Activities For Father’s Day

There are many things which children can make at home as a gift for their fathers on Father

Using Recycled Materials for Creating Children’s Crafts

Creating crafts with your kids is definitely a fun activity, but it would be better if you could save from the expenses especially during this time of economic instability. Good thing, resourceful parents can make use of recycled materials so that children would be able to creating wonderful crafts without having to spend a lot of money.

A bookmark nowadays is expensive when you purchase at a bookstore; however, you can teach your child to create their own bookmarks out of the old greeting cards that you have received. In creating a bookmark, the materials that you need are old greeting cards, cardboard, glue, scissors, and felt tip markers. You can cut a strip of thin cardboard of about 8

Left over Easter Egg wrappers – a creative kids craft idea

Easter is over for another year, but the rubbish isn’t! I had a thought about just how many easter wrappers most of us will throw in the bin at this time of the year and what a waste it is. They are so bright and colorful and easy to cut. What better medium for our kids to get creative with!

Collect up you easter egg wrappers as your children work their way through their collection of eggs. Ask your children to take care while unwrapping the eggs and they can help carefully flatten them out and store them in a container.

This is also a great way to teach young children the different colors and patterns that you will find on easter egg wrappers.

Your children can then cut the easter egg wrappers into different shapes and stick them onto paper, or an other decoratable surface, such as a box, tin, or jar.

For children that are too young to use scissors, you can cut the shapes out for them, or even let them tear up the easter egg wrappers themselves.

The possibilities are endless with this type of craft, your children can create many different types of art, from collage to very detailed pictures made from many different tiny pieces of easter egg wrapper. Your kids can even mix the wrappers with other types of material such as string, paper, ribbons etc.

All you need is:

• pair of scissors
• glue stick
• easter egg wrappers
• paper or something else to stick the wrappers onto.

#Note: Try to discourage your children from handling their piece of art work too much once it is finished, as the wrappers rip very easily. You could even consider laminating your child’s crafty creation.