what are some easy and inexpensive craft projects i can do with my kids?
they are between the ages of 1 and 9
something for boys and girls
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Popcorn necklaces, Painting.
i agree, painting was fun when we had the cheep water paints, just head over to walmart and get some stacks of blank printer paper and to the arts section and they have these little black container thingys that have little disks of paint and a brush for $1-$2, and have them paint something they see, its kinda fun, and inespensive. another thing you could try is oragami, but not for the little ones. markers too, thats fun. popsicle sticks and some glue, make stuff, i dont know what you would make, but im sure that you can make whatever you and the kids want while eating chocolate pudding! are you a teacher? if so, they have some stores that give teacher discounts for such products, some places are teacher only, but i dont know about those as i am not a teacher
Check out http://www.michaels.com for some fabulous craft ideas for children.
Good luck!
Paper plates are your new best friends! We made a zillion masks from the heavier ones, at lest once a month we did shows with them. We also made flowers or stars or whatever and there cheap, and you can use anything to decorate them with, the Sky’s the limit there. A old stand by was large cardboard boxes-free from any appliance store and great puppet theaters. For the puppets old socks,buttons for eyes, whatever. Don’t forget about gardening, herbs are really easy and fast. Treasure maps were a big part of our fun and even now with teenagers I’m still asked to do it when they have gatherings. Just take plain paper and use tea bag soaked water as your yellowing agent and let the clues fly with appropriate for your munchkin goodies as the treasures. It’s great for a rainy day adventure.
There’s also stuff like salt dough, which is really inexpensive you can use to make your own models, picture frames etc etc use food colourings to change the colour and then you bake it solid and these things last for years….gardening is another good one, you can have sunflower growing races (our dog consistently won when I was a kid)
salt dough modeling is fun and cheap to do. You can make the salt dough from ingredients you have at home and bake the models to harden them. Of course you can also make cookie dough, or pastry, then you can eat them aswell.
pine-cone people! making people out of pine-cones and bits of stuff!
Build cardboard houses and barns.
Make Valentine’s Day cards.
Trace their hands and feet for a project. (Also keep a hand and foot tracing for you).
There are sites that have crafts, like http://www.diynetwork.com
Go to Google and type in easy crafts for more ideas.
For the 9 year old: decoupage is great. Just gather up some old magazines and/or mail order catalogs and have him/her clip out pictures of things they like or go with a them like animals. The small hat boxes at walmart are about $2 and they can keep the box for a keepsake box, or they can just do it on poster board.
Another fun thing for a 9 year old is to give them a disposable camera and have them take pictures of things that begin with A,B,C etc….a tire can be for a O, two sticks crisscrossed can be for X…etc.
My kids are aged three and four. We do simple crochet projects and a lot of paper mache, as well as fingerpainting and coloring. Your kids will enjoy anything you do with them. I let my kids choose what they do with me so they feel more enjoyment form it. Hope this helps.
You might want to check out the Kids page at my site too for lots of ideas.
http://glassattic.com/polymer/kids_beginners.htm
(My site is primarily about polymer clay but there are also many basic ideas and links to other sites that could give you inspiration for all kinds of other things as well… or you could use other “clays” to do some of the things).
Have fun!
Diane B.
You can get a big package of large fun foam circles to fold into fortune cookie shapes to be given as Valentines…..type a Valentine message on a strip of paper. Put a few small candies and the paper on the circle, fold in half, add a dab of hot glue then bend into the traditional fortune cookie shape and glue.