The youngest child is the second largest and the oldest is 10 I need some ideas for craft ideas that are, but they are not very expensive and they may have to be fun for all children. Please help.
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hello, we have 5 children, what we do is go to hobby lobby and Wall-mart. each store has a bargain center. we get wooden cars and things like that for the boys and the girls get little ceramic things that they can put together and paint. all together for supplies and paint we get for about 30.00$ a week. we let the kids pick out what kind of crafts they want. as long as each little project is 1.50$ or less. it’s not that we can;t afford more, it’s that the kids learn a budget and some pride in doing it themselves. hope this works. good luck.
Collage is a lot of fun, you use old magazines, string, beads, feathers, leaves, any stuff that appeals to you, and you can add a little painting to it too, but you don’t need to. Start with a cheap poster board to glue things onto. Kids and adults love to do this. Another thing you can do with glue and poster board and white sand and a little food coloring is sand painting. There is still one of those hanging in my parent’s home that my sister made at three, over 50 years ago… You just use the glue to drip a design, sprinkle colored sand over, tip it up to remove the excess and keep on going until you like it and stop.
This is right up my alley
I had four kids very close to that age and I was a single mom – they were between zero and 9.5. (How’s that for math).
The best with them was anything to do with scrapbooking because there are so many different stages of it.
I would buy them a disposable camera, then get doubles of the pictures (always take half that are good and not pictures of a wall!) and get the crayons out, the pens out, paper (older get good sheets, younger junk!) and magazines galore. Even ads that come in the mail. My kids learned to work together so well and also explored into cutting letters out and making those funny notes that look like they came from a serial killer on the t.v. shows. Cheap stick glue and they were set to go.
Best solution for the summer I ever had. My mom even started getting really into it and as they grew older they got more and more serious and they have great scrapbooks that they created themselves (just a little help from me when needed) as children.
PRICELESS
I’ve been told that oftentimes it’s more interesting to put craft supplies in reach and see what the kids come up with and how they interpret their creations.
Place buttons, feathers, crayons and/or paints, rubber stamps, popsicle sticks, beads, etc. in small tubs at your craft table and let them go at it.
When I was a kid, I didn’t limit my creative expression at all. My mom let me do things like blow eggs and I’d use the shells. I managed to decopage them with white glue and napkins, tissue paper, etc. I even made one that looked like an airplane, if that’s not creative!
Things that kids can make with a variety of supplies include:
necklaces, pins, bracelets and other jewelry
bookmarks
refrigerator magnets
flowerpots (these are fun to create and put things IN. Don’t feel limited by plants, either)
Christmas ornaments
sculptures
If you allow them free expression, they might just surprise you with what they can accomplish!