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Tips for Crafting

14/11/2024

Crafting is a great way to challenge your child to try out new things or practice new skills. Expression through art and crafts is also a great way to reflect on self, even in young children. But it is important that adults create an environment where children can challenge themselves to learn new things and even do things that seem difficult. Here are a few tips on how to do that.

Remind parents how to give positive feedback to their children during activities: Don’t just praise the result, or simply say “great work, good job” rather praise the process and be specific. Give praise for the effort your child has made, how they kept trying, how well the child concentrated. Ask the child what they are happy with: “What do you like about your painting?” Wow, you must feel proud!
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Give your child the time and space to explore, reflect and realize, and provide the idea that the task may seem hard, but you can do it yourself.
Be patient! An adult may be thinking about finished airplane while the child's mind is on the job, and at the same time his thoughts are flying in different worlds. The child's work is progressing at its own pace, and the most important thing in craft work is the working process of reflection, exploration and insight.
Patience is also required in problem-solving situations: parents should be able to leave room for the child's own reflections and insights and not give ready made answers to ptoblems (if age appropriate).
Remember that the facilitators' role is to ensure the safety of the work. Crafting tools can be dangerous if they are not handled correctly.

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Let's color

4/11/2024

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Activity type: crafting, coloring activity
Materials: toilet paper rolls, colored pen
Age group: 2-6
Time: 15 mins
Language: All

Activity description:

Give each child one paper cup or toilet paper role and tell them which color to color it. Parents can help with younger children.
Give each child a coloring sheet to continue coloring with once they have colored their cup/toilet paper roll.
Place colors red, blue, green, yellow and orange in the middle
Instruct children to color the pictures in the colors they want, however that they must always ask for the color they want.
Do a practice round:

ASK - What color do you want?
CAN I HAVE Yellow?

MODEL THIS BEHAVIOUR A FEW TIMES and then let children color in their own time, parents should encourage children to change color and ASK the other children for the color they want.
Put some music on in the background while children color.

FOR YOUNGER KIDS: Encourage parents to actively repeat the colors to their child. You may want to break the group up into a few smaller groups for this activity.

When everyone is done coloring, ask children to bring the cup/toilet paper roll to the front and hang up their coloring work together.
Tidy the space together.

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The tree of positivity

17/10/2024

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Activity type: Crafting (can be an addition to positive hands activity)
Materials: color papers, pencil or pen, scissors
Age group: 2-6
Time: 50 mins
Language: All

Activity description:

Give each child/parent duo a branch
Ask the children: Do you know what a branch is and where a branch belongs?
Tell the children that the branch can look like anything and be any color
Let the children color/paint the branch and for older children they can also cut the branch into a different shape
PARENTS: Encourage your children, tell them they are doing a great job!!
When the children are ready, as them what they thought was fun about the exercise and what they like about their group? You can help the children again by repeating the positive words and asking if the group is happy? Friendly? Etc…
Write the positive things about the group onto the branches
Help the children attach the branches to the tree trunk on the wall (with masking tape) - Discuss how different all the branches are but how they are all part of the same tree.
Stick on the POSITIVE HANDS as LEAVES

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Positive Hands

17/10/2024

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Activity type: Crafting
Materials: cardboars, pen or pencil
Age group: 2-6
Time: 35 mins
Language: None

Activity description:

Each child gets a piece of cardboard. Explain to the children that we will start drawing our hands. You can demonstrate how this is done.
Parents can help children trace their hands. Some children might find this uncomfortable, if they do, don’t force them, you can draw a hand together, or trace a parent’s hands instead.
Whilst you are drawing encourage the children to think about positive words about themselves.

FOR YOUNGER KIDS: Younger kids may not stay engaged for that long, you can give them paints to paint the hands whilst you do the rest of the exercise, still ask you children about positive words to describe them, make suggestions, but let them paint as we go along.

Whilst you are drawing encourage the children to think about positive words about themselves.
Parents can think this through with their children and decide together what words to write on the fingers of the hand.
Smaller children can be given a hand to paint and parents can write on another one.
Once the words are written on the hands, it’s time to cut them out. Parents can do this. Let the children paint whilst you cut out the hands.
Once the hands are cut, all the parents and children can help clear up the paints and the workspace.
Parents can take the children to wash their hands whilst another parent finishes cleaning up the space.

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Let's go fly a kite

16/10/2024

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Activity type: Crafting
Materials: piece of newspaper, cloth or a plastic bag, 2X straws or sticks, string, scissors
Age group: 2-6
Time: 50 mins
Language: All

Activity description:
Today we will make a kite. Choose which kite your will make with the kids and make a sample kite at home to show as an example. Start by explaining that today we will make a kite that we can fly together. It might be a bit hard and require patience and concentration, but the adults are here to help, we can all help each other and together we will get it done!
Put some music on the background and get each parent – child pair to pick up their supplies and then find a space to sit at a table.
Older kids kite:

Cut out the shape of the kite as show on the right. You can use cloth, newspaper or even a plastic bag.
Place the straws onto the kite as shown and tape them on.
Put some tape on the corners and make holes, where shown in the picture. Taping prevents the holes from tearing.
Cut two pieces of sting, tie them through the holes on the sides and tie the strings together with a knot.
Cut a piece of the string (at least 65 cm). The length of the sting will be dependent on the size of the kite, the bigger the kite, the longer the string. Tie the long string to the central know.

Kite options for younger kids:
Younger children may not be able to concentrate for as long. These kite options are more suitable for younger kids. Start with a song about flying a kite if you can find one in your language.

Optional: You can start by letting your child decorate an A4 paper with pens and crayons. Encourage them to draw feathers in different colors
Fold A4 paper in half
Fold the top corners to the sides and staple the corners to the fold.
Cut out a tringle out of a different colored paper and some feathers for the tail (you may want to cut these in advance if the children are very young). Glue on the beak and tail feather. Draw on the birds’ eyes.
With a hole punch, make a hole just above the fold and tie the long string to the hole

Japanese fish kite:
You can either use the pre-printed “fish-head” or you can just use colored pieces of paper that you can cut out and get children and parents to draw the fish face on.

Cut out the fish head and draw on some eyes and a mouth.
Cut out around 16 small (approx. 2,5 cm) pieces of crepe paper scales in each color. Crepe paper is best because it is light, but you can also use normal paper.
Next only glue the edges of the two blank sides of the fish together. Make sure the middle is not glued to allow air to go through the fish’s mouth (put a pencil in between two papers whilst they dry)
whilst the glue dries - sing a song about a kite or fishes together 😊
Glue the colored crepe paper scales on the side of the fish in alternating colors to create an awesome looking fish.
Whilst the children are coloring the face, parents can cut out the crepe paper for the fish tail. Cut about 5 long pieces in different lengths and let you child clue them on.
Punch a hole in the fish’s mouth.
Get 2 pieces of string or yarn and tie them through hole. Tape the string to the wooden stick.

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