All children enjoy making crafts if they are instilled in the habit from an early age. At home, at school, with friends, with family. There will always be a chance to make a small gift, toy or just a hobby so that manual skills develop over time.
Using free time doing activities with your hands, with new or recycled materials, develops the imagination and creativity of children and adults. Time well spent will help children especially to develop practical skills that in the future will be reflected in the ability to solve problems.
Surely those who learned to build toys from a young age, who played building, in youth and adulthood, have recognized and appreciated the ability to fix things that break, paint and fix, that is, to find a way to solve problems as well as venture into in art.
Crafts for children cover a large number of materials to use: paper, wood, plasticine, cardboard, new or recycled materials, etc. It develops the creativity of children and with age the difficulty of the work can increase and the materials used vary.
It is also important to instill in children the recycling of materials to make their own games and toys to form in them values such as respect for Nature.
We will teach you some crafts for children over 8 years old, so that you can teach them how to do them or if you are small you can do them yourself.
What do you need
- Varied materials according to the work to be carried out.
- Scissors, glue, tape, paper, paints.
Instructions
Flowers in relief: the rolls of toilet paper or napkins have cardboard cylinders inside that can be used perfectly to make beautiful paintings or decorative compositions. Neatly cutting these cylinders into 1 cm wide rings, folding them a little to give them movement and later assembling flowers, guards, etc. When you are sure of what you want to assemble, you can paste it on a cardboard base. Finally you can paint it at ease.
Recycled bracelets: disposable plastic bottles are used to make a wide variety of crafts. For example, colored bracelets can be made. To make a bracelet you only need to cut a strip about 4cm wide from a plastic bottle. The diameter will be according to the measurement of your wrist, if you have edges file the uneven edges. Place an iron or frying pan on the fire so that it is hot, bring the edges of the bracelet closer and turn it so that with the heat it curves inwards. Finally you can paint it with acrylic paint, nail polish or wrap it with colored wool.
Openwork paper flowers: If you want to make simple and colorful openwork paper flowers, look for leaves of different and bright colors. Fully fold each one in a zigzag pattern 1 cm apart each fold. Create a design so that when unfolding the paper the cuts are symmetrical, for example if you draw a half heart when it opens it will be complete. Do the same for the different leaf colors, then place a rubber band across the middle of the paper to hold it down and open the flower. You can add accessories.
Wool dolls: For these dolls you only have to gather the remains of wool without having to buy. Start by winding the yarn around a double cardboard about 15 cm wide, depending on the size of the doll you will make. You must give at least 50 laps so that it has enough volume. At one end, tie the yarn and at the other end, cut with the scissors, inserting it between the two cardboards, then remove the cardboard. Tie a knot a few inches from the fold to form the head, then another to form the waist, and what remains is the skirt. The arms together with the torso are made in a similar way to the previous one, with a cardboard of about 8 cm, then the part that was between the neck and the waist is crossed, passing it through the middle. Then you can attach accessories such as hair, eyes, mouth and clothes.
homemade loom: A very easy and entertaining craft is to make flowers on a very cheap homemade loom. For this you need a plastic plate (disposable) or a circular cardboard. Cut neatly into spikes around the edge of the plate and make a small hole in the center. Take a strand of wool and pass it through the center of the plate and through each of the spaces on the edge, leaving it in the form of rays. Adjust the strand of yarn so that it stays taut. Remember that all knots should be on the back of the plate. Think of a pattern of stripes and colors to put the work together. Start with one color by tying the yarn on the wrong side of the work, bring the end out through the center and begin to pull first over and then under the radial yarns. Take two or three turns according to your design and change color. When you consider the job finished, tie the end to make it snug. Finally cut the radial strands and tie them behind the work
Bread Basket – One of the easy and entertaining crafts for kids of all ages is making objects out of popsicle sticks. They are bought by packages of 50 or 100, they are cheap, they are glued with plastic glue and thousands of decorative objects can be made. If you want to assemble this bread basket to take to the table, you will need approximately 70 sticks. Start making the base by placing 10 sticks parallel and then glue five more perpendicularly on them to support the base. Turn the base and begin to assemble a hexagon, that is, with 6 sticks glued on the base so that they protrude from the base square, then continue gluing them alternately and moving them outwards so that it widens and takes the shape of a bread bin.
Planter with wooden pegs: For this small planter you need 20 wooden pegs and a small empty tin, about 5 cm high. Place the pegs around the edge of the tin, surrounding it and glue it down so it stays firm and doesn’t come off. move. If you like you can give it a coat of varnish. Finally, place a small pot with a plant, you will see that it looks very decorative, especially if you make several.
Tips
- Whenever you want to make crafts, choose a base element that will give character to your work: paper, wood, gummies, plasticine, etc.
- The other materials will be the accessories to complete it, for example, you can work in wood and then paint or varnish to obtain a better finish and protection.
- If you use tools you must protect your hands and eyes to avoid accidents.