what craft can my kids do for the pool?
i’m a nanny. they have a pool we swim alot and craft alot. they like it. i want to do a craft-toy that can be a pool-toy. an suggestions?
they are five and eight yr old girls.
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Look up how to make paper boats, or have them decorate flip flops (like, buy some plain cheap ones and let them glue sequence and stuff on them) so they can have them to wear to and from the pool.
There aren’t that many crafts little kids can do that will last in the water, especially when it’s a pool and people swim in it.
How about doing plastic ship models. You can buy the basic model, glue and stickers from any hobby shop and once they have made the boat they then could sail it. Or try mosaic – draw a picture on the paving near the steps and get some grout to fill in the spaces between the mosaic tiles and you will have a picture to remember forever. Once you have finished spending the day by the pool, how about taking some photos to remember the day by. Have them developed and scrap book about the days events. It’s alot of FUN and kids will enjoy it as it’s easy to do.
If you use the polymer clay called Sculpey Ultralight, it will float naturally (after baking in a home oven) so that might be a possibility. They could make little objects like fish, boats, people, mermaids (or anything), or just larger rings or solid shapes, etc.
(If they mix Ultralight with a small amount of regular polymer clay** before shaping and baking, they can make objects that will float to some extent but hover lower and lower in the water.
**Premo, FimoClassic, Kato Polyclay, Cernit, FimoSoft, Sculpey, SuperSculpey, Sculpey III, etc.)
(Polymer clays are automatically waterproof by the way, both before and after baking. They’re not like “air-dry” clays that have to be sealed before being exposed to moisture.)
Of course, you could also use the Ultralight to make other things not pool-related (or even to use in sand or elsewhere) …it’s just that there’s enough air in that particular lines of polymer clay to allow it to float without having to make a hollow polymer clay object for floatability.
(If you’re interested in various things that kids in particular might like to do with polymer clays, and other clays could be used for some of them too, check out this page at my polymer clay “encyclopedia” site:
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/kids_beginners.htm )
For larger things, they could make other things to dive for, or twist balloons and float them, etc.
HTH, and have fun!
Diane B.