Spice up your Chrsitmas Holiday with some Kids Ornament Crafts
admin | December 17, 2009
Christmas is a holiday where all kinds of kids crafts are created at home and in the school environment.
Crafts for kids, however should be an activity that should bring fun and excitement to children’s activities aside from adding a bonding to the adults that are doing the projects with them.
Educational arts and crafts is a way of doing crafts with children where they are not blindly copying the adults model but are creating things that they are capable of creating at their own developmental level.
When children create at their own level a number of things occur.
It creates a great feeling about themselves, as who can feel good about crafts projects that are copycat models of someone else’s. Children who create their own projects without adult input feel much better about themselves.
An even more beneficial side to educational arts and crafts is its inherent allowance for creativity.
There is very little that represses creativity more than having to copy anothers work.
There are a few categories that are part of educational art.
There is the cafeteria style that allows children to choose materials to work with, there is process only art where the process is what counts along with a few more.
The point of it is that all of the crafts under educational arts and crafts should be age appropriate, and allow for freedom of creation and expression.
Below I will give you 2 clear cut, almost effortless Christmas craft ornaments that you can make.
The first one uses plastic throwaway cups:
The kids can use permament markers to make many colorful designs on their cups. Try egging them on to fill in as much empty space on the cup as possible.
When they are done, take a cookie sheet and put the cups upside down on it and put in the over at around 350 degrees. Give them a few minutes so that they have time to melt. Look out for the amount of time the cups are in the oven as they can burn up completely. Don’t allow the children near this part as it gets very hot.
When they are cool, make a hole in the center and use colorful ribbon to hang as an ornament for your tree.
Another project is to take all of your old cd’s and dvd’s and use them for the project.
Basically: Decorate them and hang them.
There are tons of ways of enhancing the cd’s.
You can color with permanent markers, glue and glitter them, collage over them, decoupage over them, and decorate them with whatever shiny, decorative materials you can find.
Once they are done, get some pretty ribbon and hang them from your tree.
If you want to see what a crafts acitivity done in the cafeteria style is like then check out this Hanukkah Crafts collage
