Craft ideas for toddlers are so much fun. Crafts bring out the best creative skills in children. Arts and crafts help in developing a bond with the kids. A proper stock of arts and crafts are necessary for craft ideas for toddlers.
Parents can enjoy, what the little ones will create when you present them with a few craft supplies. Below are a few craft ideas for toddlers.
Craft Ideas for Toddlers
1. Neon Rice
One of the best craft ideas for toddlers. The idea of this Neon Rice craft is to use sensory bins, through which kids can explore with their hands, and when it glows, the fun goes to the next level.
For this craft idea, you will need, rice, water, glowing neon paint, black light, Ziploc bag, measuring cup, and a tray. Make sure, the kids use the rice only for playing, and not for eating.
How to do this craft:
Gather all your craft materials. Start your craft, by creating some colorful rice. To prepare this, in a ziplock bag, add 1 cup of rice, 1 teaspoon of water and 2 teaspoons of paint to it. Seal the bag, and shake it well, until it is mixed thoroughly.
Use a tray, and spread the rice on it. Allow it to dry for a few minutes. You can make the play more colorful with different neon paint colors, by making other batches. Once it is dry, turn on the black light, for extra magical playtime.
Watch out for the colors streaming through our fingers and mixing all of the colors together would be great fun!
2. Zipline Butterfly
Kids love watching butterflies when they zip through the sky. Creating colorful patterns using dot markers, are easy for younger children.
You will need dot markers or the regular markers, a string, scissors, straw, tape, coffee filter and a pipe cleaner for this craft project. This craft project can be enjoyed by one or two children for a fun-filled playdate.
How to do this craft:
Gather all your craft materials, and cover your workspace. Fold the coffee filter in half and cut the top and bottom at an angle. Decorate the butterfly wings, using the dot markers.
You can hold the marker down on the coffee filter for a couple of seconds, to let the color flow to the other wing. To reveal asymmetrical design, open up the butterfly. Around the middle of the butterfly, fold a pipe cleaner in half, and twist it.
Curl the ends of the pipe cleaner around a straw, and cut the straw to a length of about 3 inches. Tape the pipe cleaner, to keep in place.
Tie the straw through a piece of string. Hold each end of the string and move, to make your butterfly flutter. To make your butterfly move even further, cut a long piece of string, and find a friend to play with. Each of you can then hold an end and move it up or down to make the butterfly move.
Hang on the zip line butterfly on a tree, and see it travel across the garden!
3. Make a Fourth of July Flag Craft
We always intend to make lots of Fourth of July crafts, but the holiday always seems to pass by before we get the chance!
The best crafts for this project can be done in the backyard. Grab your supplies, and start off your craft idea. Before you start your Fourth of July crafts project, look at the American Flag to talk with each other about the colors and shapes.
To make this craft project, you will need red, white and blue washable paints, a dish soap, a butcher paper, and a toilet paper roll. An important tip, to lessen up the mess and to keep clean up easy, add a small amount of dish soap to your paint.
How to do this craft:
Start off the craft with the stripes first, by painting your child’s feet red. Let her walk across the paper long ways making the beautiful red stripes. You can leave spaces between the red stripes, for the white ones.
Wash her feet, and get ready for the blue part of the American Flag. For this, you can paint your daughter’s hands, blue and let her hand blot the top left square until it is filled with blue paint.
For the stars on the American Flag, fold a toilet paper into a star shape, to stamp stars on the flag. You can even use a star cookie cutter for stamping or star stickers.
After the paint dried, display your American flag on the back porch. Your daughter would be proud of this simple Fourth of July crafts Flag!
Make your own American Flag, with the colors, as everything is a learning opportunity.
4. Aluminum Foil Craft
Aluminum foil craft, as toddler crafts are easy to make. Making a Tin foil collage as a craft is so simple, that even the youngest artist can get involved with colorful results. Kids love when the things found in the kitchen become an art.
The tin foil collage could be your kid’s personal all-time favorite art projects.
How to do this craft:
Create this art project with the hopes of occupying your little ones for quite some time.
Divide the aluminum foil into segments. The first step would be to create the tin foil, canvas, and color with markers. Paint the aluminum foil canvas. You and your child can use cork stamps & tempera paint, for the painting.
Prepare the college materials like shredding paper, punching a hole to let the paint set up a bit. The fun part of the craft would be adding the tissue paper, and punching holes, by putting the aluminum foil craft together.
Add colors to the aluminum foil, canvas using markers, paint, paper, etc., for great craft art.
To create a tin foil craft canvas, cut any cardboard you have on hand into the shape you would like your canvas to be. And then, wrap the cardboard in aluminum foil. To keep it in place, keep your folds nice and neat, so you that you can tape the foil on the backside.
Your kids will not only love to do this great craft, but it is also a lot of fun to photograph. They will love the way, the light reflects off the foil.
Hang these eye-catching rotating art displays in your kid’s rooms!
