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easy Arts and Crafts for a one year old?
Where are my pre-school teachers/kindergarten experts? I need a few arts and craft ideas for Abby to make. I forgot that she should probably give a little something to her loved ones, too :-)
Our Abby Jean
Re: easy Arts and Crafts for a one year old?
At a year old I think Helen was still eating crayons. Even now she can only be trusted with crayons and stickers. I let her use a glue stick recently and she tried to smear it everywhere. The cards Helen is giving her relatives this year were made entirely by me (I gave up on her helping after the glue stick incident).
First thought is that you will have the best luck with a controlled hand print project. Paint her hand, hang on to it, stamp it where you want it, and then wash her hand off, decorate yourself. Foot print project is also a way to go.
http://www.suite101.com/content/handprint-art-handprint-christmas-card-craft-and-poems-for-presc-a318806
the third graders made these this year - really cute, but better for kids older than 1 - keep it in mind for another year. Have kid grab Christmas ball with painted hand and then paint into snowmen when dry.
http://funhandprintart.blogspot.com/
other cute things
http://funhandprintart.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-handprintfootprintthumbprint.html
My toddler book is at the neighbors' house right now, or I would look up some more ideas.
Maybe you could do Abby made wrapping paper with ice cube painting and maybe add hand prints when dry. Wrap up a picture of her with the paper.
freeze sticks in ice cubes with food coloring, Abby moves the ice around, ice melts, color gets on paper.
contact paper collage? Abby tears Christmas-y paper, sticks it to contact paper, you fold over. Use tissue paper and it is a sun catcher (hole punch top and add ribbon).
But yeah, MF is right, it will mostly be made by you at Abby's age, especially if you want it to look like something and not just be a creative expression.
My sister did the handprint Santa with my niece and it turned out great! (Granted, my niece is 3.5, but still...) She bought a plain canvas from Michael's and painted it a bright aqua color, then had Kate stamp her hand on the canvas. She used foam stickers for the rest instead of painting it. It's really cute, and because it's on the canvas, it's a permanent Christmas decoration.
Owen's daycare had him do really simple stuff. They had balsa wood snowmen ornaments that the kids painted and pre-cut tree shapes (on construction paper) that they let the kids color with glitter paint and glue on cheerios for decorations (again, you could use foam stickers).
Check out Family Fun magazine -- they always have great ideas!
http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/crafts-by-age/toddler-crafts/
Some of these are not age approprate yet- but some nice ideas.
ACTIVITIES FOR TODDLERS
thumbprint reindeer. there's so many variations. here's a bunch from google:
http://www.google.com/images?q=thumbprint+reindeer&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1RNFA_en___US367&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=Z_8PTYutBI-t8AbbxvXFDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQsAQwAg&biw=1024&bih=553
We are big fans of the foam stickers, but I think for a 1yr old you would have to do a lot of the work. i.e. Peeling off the back, holding hand and helping little one stick it...
Last year I painted a picture of a christmas tree and had Brielle use a q-tip to make dots on the tree, thus she "decorated it". You could do a variation of this and MM's idea with the canvas'. Oh, we also did the cinnamon ornaments last year. They do take some time to dry but they smell great and I think you can speed up the process in the oven. Brielle "helped" use the cookie cutters and cut out the ornament shapes....I recommend buying your cinnamon in bulk containers at Sam's Club. It takes a lot of cinnamon...