| Christmas is a holiday where all kinds of kids | | | | appropriate, and allow for freedom of creation |
| crafts are created at home and in the school | | | | and expression. |
| environment. | | | | I am going to show you two extremely easy and |
| Crafts for kids, however should be an activity | | | | inexpensive Christmas craft ornaments that you |
| that should bring fun and excitement to children's | | | | can make. |
| activities aside from adding a bonding to the adults | | | | The first one uses plastic throwaway cups: |
| that are doing the projects with them. | | | | You will need to offer the children an array of |
| Educational arts and crafts is a way of doing | | | | colorful, permanent markers so they can color all |
| crafts with children where they are not blindly | | | | over their cups. It will be a much nicer decoration |
| copying the adults model but are creating things | | | | if you get the kids to cover as much as you can |
| that they are capable of creating at their own | | | | with markers on the cup. |
| developmental level. | | | | When they are done, take a cookie sheet and put |
| When children create at their own level a number | | | | the cups upside down on it and put in the over at |
| of things occur. | | | | around 350 degrees. Allow them to stay in for a |
| It creates a great feeling about themselves, as | | | | few minutes as they melt. Watch them carefully |
| who can feel good about crafts projects that are | | | | so they don't burn all the way down. As you can |
| copycat models of someone else's. Kids crafts | | | | imagine, the cups and tray get really hot so the |
| projects that are done by using their own | | | | kids must be kept away until they get cool. |
| creativity makes them feel so much better about | | | | When they are cool, make a hole in the center |
| themselves. | | | | and use colorful ribbon to hang as an ornament |
| An additional benefit that educational arts and | | | | for your tree. |
| crafts has is its allowance for much greater | | | | For our next craft you will use any unused or not |
| creativity. When an adult does a project and want | | | | needed DVD's or CD's. |
| a child to copy it, it's the perfect way to repress | | | | Basically: Decorate them and hang them. |
| creativity. | | | | There are endless methods you can use to |
| There are a few categories that are part of | | | | beautify the CD's. |
| educational art. There is the cafeteria style that | | | | You can color with permanent markers, glue and |
| allows children to choose materials to work with, | | | | glitter them, collage over them, decoupage over |
| there is process only art where the process is | | | | them, and decorate them with whatever shiny, |
| what counts along with a few more. | | | | decorative materials you can find. Once they are |
| The point of it is that all of the crafts under | | | | done, get some pretty ribbon and hang them |
| educational arts and crafts should be age | | | | from your tree. |