I have spent a great deal of time over the years making crafts with children. First with my own three children and then years with Bible and Sunday School, 4-H and after school community education programs. This page will be dedicated to providing you with helpful tips I have learned over these many years. I will be adding to these tips quiet often. So if anyone has tips they would like to share I would love to hear them and add them to this page.
Go to Wal Mart, Target or your locally owned Hardware store and pick up a $5.00 Rubbermaid storage container to keep your child's craft supplies and equipment all in one place.
Use a vinyl table cloth when crafting with kids. Buy a cheap one or like many of us, we have them laying around. Don't throw it away. Use it and reuse it instead of newspapers to cover the work area.
Keep your yogurt, cool whip, or any other plastic food containers you have. They work great for paint dishes and you can just rinse them out and use them again.
Whenever you are painting clay pots remember that it will usually take two to three coats of paint to cover the clay color.
When painting wooden balls, tooth picks or thin wooden dowels work great for easier painting. Put the ball on the tooth pick. (Most will have a hole in the flat ball.)
Baby food jars work great for storing craft supplies such as googly eyes, button's, small pom poms.
Let the kids craft the way they want to craft. Just because the pictures look one way doesn't mean they can't change it and be creative their way.
Take one of Dad's or Grandpa's old T-shirts to use as a paint/crafting shirt. T-shirts are easy for the kids to get on and off by themselves. NO BUTTONS to mess with.
Foam brushes work the best with kids. They come in all sizes for all kinds of projects and they do not leave brush marks.
