February 25th, 2010Christmas Crafts For A One Year Old?
I’m a nanny for a one year old, and a 7 month old. I want to make some cute crafts for their parents. We tried at thanksgiving to make cards– with their hands as the turkeys…but they’re way too little to make good handprints. They want to squish and slide their fingers everywhere! Lol … so what are some good age appropriate crafts I can do?? Thanks everyone!
If it helps the one year old is pretty advanced. I’d say more around 18 months or so.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:39 am
- Get a peice of construction paper and let them dip their hands in washable paint then put their handprints on the paper. Put letters of white glue to spell their name and than put the paper in a rubbermaid tub and let them shake glitter all over it! My kids loved that one.
-The stockin idea is great. You can make a snack reindeer for them too, just need a rice krispie treat, pretzel sticks, raisins, and a red candy. use pretzels as antlers, raisins as eyes, and red candy for the nose.
-Coloring pictures is fun, and clean! You could have them bring in a picture of themselves and glue it to the top of a jar lid, add a string and there’s a cute ornament.
-Use play dough to make little shapes, you can use christmas cooki cutters, put a hole in the top for a string. then let them dry out over night and then you can have them take their ornaments home!
If all else fails, just give them a crayon and paper and have them scribble on it. write merry christmas from whatever the kids name is!
The handprint ideas are the best. Moms love them! One year my son brought home a great Santa print they had done on blue felt. They painted his fingers white (beard), the middle of his palm pink (the face), and the base of his hand and thumb red (for the hat). They then glued a cotton ball (you could use a pompom) on the end of the thumprint.
wat they did for christmas in kindergarden for me was cutting out stars and putting our footprints on them!our stars were big not ornaments!but since they are smaller they probaly can get a smaller size of star. or you can get colored cotton balls and other decorations needed and cut out ginger breadmans and decorate them and in the bottom u can write their names or it can be bells trees snowmans angels and so on!! thats wat my mom did! have a great christmas and hopefully u find something that will be better for u and the kids!!
February 26th, 2010 at 4:45 am
Try a cotton ball snow man/woman. Cut out the general snowman shape (three circles) out of construction paper or cardboard, and coat it with child-safe glue. Have the kids fill up the paper with cotton balls, and then help them put eyes and a nose, mouth, hat, etc., on it.
February 26th, 2010 at 6:29 am
Unfortunately at that age.. pretty much any craft is going to be messy!! haha
My son (18 months) has made some amazing stuff at daycare (that I would NEVER try at home without a tarp over everything. lol). they put a bit of glue on construction paper that the day care workers cut out in the shape of an ornament, and let the kids throw the glitter on there.(my son was a shimmery mess when I picked him up. lol)
For Thanksgiving, they let the kids paint with feathers (where they used actual art feathers instead of paint brushes)
They also use bingo daubers a lot at my son’s daycare, and he loves them!
You could take green construction paper, and draw an outline of a tree. Then let them use the daubers to make “ornaments” =) Then just cut the trees out.
Another thing (they might be too young for this but it’s still a cute idea – I did it in kindergarten) .. put their foot in brown paint and let them step on a shirt or sweater. Then put their hands in brown paint and have them put two handprints at the top (to make antlers). glue on some wiggly eyes, and a red cottonball, and voila! a reindeer sweater/shirt/whatever!
Also – decorating pine cones! I did this as a kid too and it was fun. Using balled up tissue paper for ornaments, then sprinkling with glitter or tinsel or whatever.
Ummmmmm… you can get the little stained glass kits for kids at wal-mart for cheap where they squeeze the paint out. Or get the little figurines that are christmas shapes (santa, reindeer, snowmen, trees, etc) and let them have some finger paints or paint brushes to paint them.
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If none of these ideas work.. maybe they’ll be inspiration for something else that will work. =)
Have fun!
*monkey*
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