Educational Toys: Learning Through Crafts

Does your child like to draw and make things?

Try find some toys that are crafty and making things always makes them so proud if they can give to someone as a present especially.

Your children can do with crafts, which are simple, challenging, fun, inspiring them to learn new skills. They will learn coordination, how to be creative, counting, and reading to. The amount of skills they learn is depending on what they are making.

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Creative Learning through Craft Ideas:

Crafting can become a way of having fun starting at any age really; usually around age 5 is a good time to have fun with them. Start small and as they learn one thing try something else, this will give you family time.

Try weaving as a craft and if you don’t know how you can learn too. Beginner’s kits can be sold at most craft stores with all the supplies to make your project. Get two of them and both of you can learn something new together. Your child will learn how to count stitches, and reading the instruction with illustrated pictures making it easier to follow.

Weaving Craft Ideas

Make a Tick-Tack-Toe game so they can learn to recognize the X’s and O’s. They’ll learn that losing is all that bad when having fun after they made it themselves. At the fabric store get a piece of felt material and with a maker draw you boxes on it. Get some colored cardstock and draw some X’s and O’s to let your child cut out this will teach your child how to use paper scissors.  Cover the cardstock with clear contact paper. The game is done and now your child will learn to play a new game.

Paint the Wild Nature Tic-tac-toe Kit By Balitono

How about Make a Plate Kit is a fun way to let your child make something for the table or a gift to give grandma. Your child will learn to draw picture and learn colors. Let them do the drawing and sent it to the company and they will mail it back on a plate safe to eat off.  They’ll be so proud when they can eat off their own plate that they made.  Your child will learn the gift of giving if it is given to Grandma.

Toysmith 4M Plate Painting Kit #3512

Creativity for Young Ones:
Teach your children age 5 through 6 how to make potholders. Let them be creative by mixing their own colors together and coordination is being used here as well. They’ll love it when they see mom using it at the stove.

Harrisville Designs Potholder Deluxe

Teaching your child to tell time is a fun project for them to make and learn. Get a cheap clock and take the top off. Remove the clock hands so you can get the plain backing off.  Let them cut out 12 pictures of different animal and let the glue the animals next to the numbers. This is teaching your child how to use scissors; they will learn how to use glue and can learn to tell time with the pictures or by the numbers. When the project is done hang it up in their room just for them. Now you can teach your child how to tell time at the age of 4 instead of 5.

Telling Time Flannelboard Figures Flannelboard Lesson Set – Kit

How about suncatchers that are cute and cheap to make. Let your child glue 2 old CD’s together and decorate one side of it.  You can buy different foam shapes at the craft store to glue on. Let your child be creative at making flowers, sun faces, or fish even.  This will teach them to make the decision of what they one to make for the face, putting colors together, and how to use glue. Glue a piece of yarn, string or fishing line of the back to hang it up in the window.

Suncatcher Group Activity Kit, Construction 12/Pkg

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