Toddlers & Preschoolers
With a very busy toddler in the house who's rarely still, I'm jealous of moms whose kids love to sit and do creative activities.
How can I get my active toddler interested in arts and crafts?
Tell me what's worked for you in the replies below.
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When it comes to arts and crafts and toddlers, I think it's more a question of how not to involve them once you get everything out, lol. They didn't have to sit very still for many of the things we did, and we had a blast with the messier activities like fingerpainting with pudding! :)
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Quoting bamababe1975:
When it comes to arts and crafts and toddlers, I think it's more a question of how not to involve them once you get everything out, lol. They didn't have to sit very still for many of the things we did, and we had a blast with the messier activities like fingerpainting with pudding! :)
Finger painting with pudding???!!! That's the first I've ever heard that - it sounds like soooo much fun!
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I don't know. My 3 year old has ALWAYS been interested in that type of stuff.
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my son likes making stuff.
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It was a BLAST! We had a big kitchen at the time and we laid an old shower curtain on the floor, gave them some plain paper and a big bowl of pudding, and let them at it! LOL. It was vanilla pudding that I dyed with food dyes to different colors, and the good thing about it was that if they ate it while they painted, no big deal. ;) Plus, after they were done, I just took them out back and hosed them off for even more fun! :)
Quoting Cafe Naomi:
Quoting bamababe1975:
When it comes to arts and crafts and toddlers, I think it's more a question of how not to involve them once you get everything out, lol. They didn't have to sit very still for many of the things we did, and we had a blast with the messier activities like fingerpainting with pudding! :)
Finger painting with pudding???!!! That's the first I've ever heard that - it sounds like soooo much fun!
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It really depends on your child. I used to do fairly formal arts and crafts with my twins (my first kids) . . . but they never really loved it. Then along comes my daughter, who makes up her own craft projects.
But I do think that the process is the fun part, not just the end result. I have always allowed them to create whatever they want with glue, scissors, paper, playdoh, paint.
Oh and a fun and easy way to "paint" with really little ones is to give them construction paper and plain water - the water darkens the construction paper and looks like paint. No fuss, no muss!
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Most kids LOVE arts and crafts! I agree that it's not hard to get them interested. :) I've found so many great ideas on Pinterest! -
Some kids are just not into arts and crafts. You can give him different mediums to try: markers, paint, finger paint, crayons, scissors, etc - maybe he will find one he likes. -
I think you just need to try different things to figure-out what they like to do. There are so many crafts to chose from, they are bound to like something.
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Offer it all the time.