crafts for kids
Educational crafts offers many wonderful opportunities to playfully engage children's imaginations. Preschool crafts, educational and entertaining by design, can be very rewarding to do with your child ... and the crafts you'll find here are free and easy to do!
Click on the links below for a variety of educational crafts:
Play Dough Shapes
Materials
- Broad-tip marker
- Several sheets of construction paper or other coloured paper
- Clear contact paper
- Play dough
Instructions
- Use a broad-tip marker to draw shapes (a circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval, crescent, and so on) on the construction paper, one shape per sheet. Cover each sheet of paper with clear contact paper.
- Have your child roll the play dough into ropes and shape them over each drawn shape.
- Then have her close her eyes, feel each play dough shape, and try to identify it.
- If you like, draw letters and numbers on additional sheets of paper and repeat the process.
See more crafts for this Educational Arts and Crafts:
- Shape Painting
- Play Dough Shapes
- First Words Scrapbook
- Alphabet Book
- Personal Record Book
- Table Rubbings
- 3-D Number Board
- Number Cards
- Pattern Play
- Painted Sticks
- Four Seasons Poster
- Calendar Math
- Telling Time
- Map Skills
- Ready to Read
- Letter Puzzles
- “I Can” Scrapbook
- Personal Time-Line
- Family Phone Book
- Colour Match
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