Posted by Selah on 2005-06-05 22:22:45
Post Subject: Toddler Tips
I love hearing clever things other moms and dads do with their kids to make life more fun and even easier, imagine that!
It's such a broad topic but I thought I'd get the ball rolling with some arts and crafts tips:
-I cut up the paper bags from the grocery store into big sheets of paper for painting. Free craft paper!!
-I buy up muffin tins at rummage sales and use those to put the paint in. Leaving some empty for color mixing.
-I also use the muffin tins for sorting activities. If I'm busy in the kitchen I might give my son a handful of assorted dried beans or various bottle caps I save to sort.
-Now that the weather is nice we do lots of art outside. I water down paint and put it in spray bottles for my son to squirt on mural paper (paper bags cut into one long strip and taped together) or we do tire track painting using his little metal cars. He "drives" them through the paint and makes tracks across the paper.
-We do a lot of painting with water. On the chalk board or outside. I give my son a huge paint brush for painting walls and let him get to it.
I could keep going because I think I was having a "Martha" moment, pretending I was a presenter of a crafty kids show or something. :)
