Hi Akila,

I hope if u could teach them the art of making greeting cards of their own, it will be useful for them.

They could get a white chart and some fabric painting with which they could easily make out good stuffs.You can very well teach them the vegetable priniting using lady's finger,onion,bitterguard etc...

It is not an idea but a suggestion ... :)

hi ,

if u have got empty perfume bottle wrap with a colour paper ,then with the marriage invitation which has got shiny jammiki works cut in the shape of hands,neck ,blouse like rajastani woman wear and umberalla shirt ,now take a golden colour ribbon and make duppata for this women ,for head wrap with a light golden colour thick chart paper ,put ur black gobi bindi for eyes,nose and red  half cut round bindi for mouth .get a black ribbon and make as hair covering forehead ,put a golden bindi for earss if u want extend like jimmiki ,them small golden colour ribbon for bangels,Finally if u get a small pot place it over her head fix with fevicol ,a rajastani women carrying curd is ready now...u can decorate her how much beautiful u want with ur artificial  ornaments ...all the items will be available in ur home itself.

place her over a round  bottomed hollow thermocol and fill with sand the whole side ,place a plastic cow tied to her hand .some green palm trees if u want

one for easy craft is u can make a 60 deg tilted L-shaped cardboard ,stick two separated thick card boards with fevicol ,make ur child stick their family photo to it .cover with the transparent paper and stable or cellotape all the sides ,make small design with sketch ,the childs photo frame is ready .

with paper plate they can make many....bubble paining, thread painting they can do....

just check this link

http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/index.html

We made this for the worth frm waste project in my daughter's school....it was made frm the waste coconut shell...cleaned it, painted ,stuck decorative chumkies and bells...and made a pen stand...take the shell which has eyes....

nice shobana

Ok here are a few suggestions

2-4 - concentration span less, loves colour,sand and water and everything in the house other than their toys

• Vegetable art : Lady's finger, potato,carrot can be cut into any shape on the base and used as a stamp to create prints on paper or cloth


• Sand Art: Draw a picture, apply glue on each part, put sand ( fine and coloured) and create lovely textured art


• Pulses Art: Use all the commodities found in the kitchen( grains,dhal etc) and stick it on pre-drawn picture


• Fossil Art: Painting on leaves and making a fossil imprint on paper


• Mask making: cut our different faces(mickey mouse, cat, tigeretc) ask the kids to colour it as they wish and make masks


• Sock Puppets: Stick nose eyes and tongue on socks and make snake, people

4-6 needs to make something that has a personal touch or a sense of belonging

• Pet Plants/ pencil holders: Old Pet pottles can be cut on the top, filled with sand, plant  som shrub or creeper. Can paint the pet bottle and make it attractive. Thses can also be used to hold pens etc.


• Picture frames: refer cherrysmile comment


• Caps and badges: Get one paper cap with elastic. Cut a few other plain ones in the same shape and tie the elastic. Get the children to paint and write their names. And u have personalised caps. For badges use cardboard and cut in different shapes , stick sponge on it (hasina did a great job with our badges for Mamma Mia)


• Pencil caps: Get old pen caps , stick sponge in shape of flower/car/butterfly, pint with glitter, now you can fix this on any pencil you want


• Sword/Magic wand: Cut in cardboard and keep, the kids can colour and personalise it

6-8 : A bit complicated stuff can be given since these kids always want soemthing new and innovative ...some thing the other kid doesn't have

• Kalidescope : blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/flashback_recycled_kaleidoscope.html or familycrafts.about.com/cs/toystomake/a/blconnkaleid.htm.....the stuff each one uts into it can be different


• Greeting cards for Tamil New Year: U know what to do. Tell them they should be unique.Give them various tit bits like pulses, buttons etc


• Friendship bands with beads: Let them make unique bands with the different kind of beads you provide them with.


• Something for their room: Door signs in thermocol, Pillow case painting, table cloth painting etc


• Kites : Let them have their hand on making kites tih their intials on it....If they don't wanna fly them they can decorate their room with it


• Science projects : They might be interested in science experiments. Browse the net for some simple ones that they can do...make parachutes (kidsactivities.suite101.com/article.cfm/make_a_cloth_parachute_and_fly_it_)

Actually there are loads of stuff available on the net if you take an hour or two to browse theru....the above mentioned are jus my suggestions....Have fun

@buzz

nee sonna ideas  use panni  oru play school start pannalam pola irukku.....

@buzz ...........play school mattum illla...........oru periya craft shopea open pannalam

Tks Ramya3...

Buzzy..wonderful ideas...will note it for future use...

These are also pages from my daughter's school actvts

Painting - sand painting, balloon painting, spray painting, hand painting, thumb painting,bubble painting.....these are jus cues...u can make it more creative

Cut charts in diff shapes to make pic frames

using tooth paste boxes u can make bus, car, van

use walnut shell and toothpick to make a boat.can put a small paper in the end of the toothpick like a flag

make a family tree on thermocol and decorate it

Hi

Just try the below link: Hope it is simple and provided helpull.

www.allcrafts.net/f.php

crafts.kaboose.com/sand-filled-bottles.html

crafts.kaboose.com/sand-art.html

crafts.kaboose.com/fall-leaf-print.html

Shobi

thanks all and special thanks buzzgks !

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