<![CDATA[What are the crafting activities you can do with your child?]]>Hi I would like to do more crafting activities with my child and I would like to seek ideas from some of the parents out here? Thanks!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/topic/38937/what-are-the-crafting-activities-you-can-do-with-your-childRSS for NodeMon, 04 May 2026 09:57:30 GMTWed, 08 Aug 2012 08:10:47 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Wed, 01 Apr 2020 05:57:32 GMT]]>5 Fun Ways to Dye Easter Eggs with Toddlers

https://www.parents.com/holiday/easter/decorating/creatively-messy-ways-to-decorate-your-easter-eggs/

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1969425https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1969425Wed, 01 Apr 2020 05:57:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Sun, 23 Feb 2020 09:46:00 GMT]]>I crochet a lot and every time I am doing it, I do it together with my girl. she’s really getting frustrated at times but now she’s speeding me up. haha! Im happy there’s something we can do together after her classes or during weekends.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1964539https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1964539Sun, 23 Feb 2020 09:46:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Thu, 10 Oct 2019 02:40:19 GMT]]>HELLO MUMS & DADS 😄


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]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1940630https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1940630Thu, 10 Oct 2019 02:40:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Thu, 03 Oct 2019 08:02:39 GMT]]>

Gilian039\" post_id=\"1936149\" time=\"1568960484\" user_id=\"165778:

We started doing origami together with my 7-year-old daughter and 13-year-old niece. We really enjoy doing origami because I was able to express my creativity by doing different figures with just some piece of colored paper. It also helps my child and my niece to develop patience since doing origami is not that easy.
That sounds interesting! I guess my P4 and P6 kids would also have fun doing origami. They love cutting and folding papers too. I am wondering, where did you buy the paper you are using for your origami session? Which website do you visit for the step-by-step procedure?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1939572https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1939572Thu, 03 Oct 2019 08:02:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Fri, 20 Sep 2019 06:21:24 GMT]]>We started doing origami together with my 7-year-old daughter and 13-year-old niece. We really enjoy doing origami because I was able to express my creativity by doing different figures with just some piece of colored paper. It also helps my child and my niece to develop patience since doing origami is not that easy.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1936149https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1936149Fri, 20 Sep 2019 06:21:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:52:47 GMT]]>Talking about folding clothes, today I got my daughter to improvise using her metal pot to iron her clothes at the dramatic corner and she loves it. Then I took out the magic clean mop’s handle…you know the stick? Yeah I hung it over two chairs for her to pretend drying her clothes that she has washed in a big black ikea box which was supposed to be her washing machine! Yeah she was happily pegging away and using the hangers! It was so fun to watch her doing that!


Pretend play is such a BIG PART of a child’s life, I guess apart from crafting activity… everyone should really encourage their child/children to role play, not just in school but at home too! Yeah I’ve got to agree folding clothes is such a great idea too. Maybe I will get her to start off by folding her shorts…Thanks!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1026720https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1026720Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:52:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:28:10 GMT]]>@picapica I tried it with my daughter, haha the silhouette doesn't turn out as beautiful as the ones your kids did 😛 but yes she definitely enjoyed the learning experience and that's the most important 🙂


http://babylexin.blogspot.sg/2013/04/my-silhouette.html

Thanks!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1023088https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1023088Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:28:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Thu, 23 May 2013 18:17:00 GMT]]>

soundt2x:
@ Jazenso Many thanks for your suggestions and guess what I did all the above you mentioned already. I am not a very montessori mum but I certainly have to agree with you that the M. approach definitely helps to refine a child's fine motor skills so I did all of the activity you have mentioned. Actually not just transfering beads now I even went on to get my daughter to transfer beans check this out here....

http://babylexin.blogspot.sg/2013/03/lets-have-some-fun-with-green-beans.html

@seedozo and bakergirl just print out photos of your child/family and paste them on old unwanted board books or even used calendar will be a big hit, I guess they will love the idea of flipping probably reinforced by ipad 😛 For toddlers, scrapbooking might be a little too difficult I guess but thanks for the info anyway 🙂

@picapica your work with your kids is truly inspiring and I find it very interesting and pretty I will take on your idea and tweet it a little to observe the outcome! Will share with you soon and many thanks for your sharing!

Thanks for sharing, wanna try it with my dd too !

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1009038https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/1009038Thu, 23 May 2013 18:17:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:16:14 GMT]]>@picapica that's an amazing idea! I thought of doing that too cause I saw a similar project in one of the Reggio Emilia book which I have read. It certainly would be cool to display the craft on the wall as decoration so I collected some tissue boxes but I think they are too bulky perhaps I can get hold of some cereal boxes instead, like medium boxes used to store honey stars! Thank you so much for your suggestion and by the way I really love your blog, keep writing and keep up the good job! I will share with you the learning process once I am done with it! Thank you dear 🙂

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/987576https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/987576Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:16:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:02:04 GMT]]>@soundt2x, I'm glad you liked it, really hope you try it out for yourself and have tons of fun. Share your tweet here with us, I wanna see what you and your kiddies create!


I actually did another craft session this week. 😃 We did something more conventional than silhouettes though. I was trying to inspire J and E with Piet Mondrian's style of paintings, and it developed into a full afternoon project. http://wp.me/p3k0cT-bD?utm_source=kiasuparents&utm_medium=craft if this sounds like something you'd want to do too!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/987069https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/987069Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:02:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:43:30 GMT]]>@ Jazenso Many thanks for your suggestions and guess what I did all the above you mentioned already. I am not a very montessori mum but I certainly have to agree with you that the M. approach definitely helps to refine a child's fine motor skills so I did all of the activity you have mentioned. Actually not just transfering beads now I even went on to get my daughter to transfer beans check this out here....

http://babylexin.blogspot.sg/2013/03/lets-have-some-fun-with-green-beans.html

@seedozo and bakergirl just print out photos of your child/family and paste them on old unwanted board books or even used calendar will be a big hit, I guess they will love the idea of flipping probably reinforced by ipad 😛 For toddlers, scrapbooking might be a little too difficult I guess but thanks for the info anyway 🙂

@picapica your work with your kids is truly inspiring and I find it very interesting and pretty I will take on your idea and tweet it a little to observe the outcome! Will share with you soon and many thanks for your sharing!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/982601https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/982601Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:43:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:12:17 GMT]]>I just made a silhouette mural together with my kids to decorate their nursery room door, it was quite simple and quite fun for the kids. It's actually not that complicated, you can get all the necessary materials in one place, and it's quite educational and helpful for their psychomotor skills I think.


If you're interested, you can http://wp.me/p3k0cT-8T. 😃

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/980366https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/980366Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:12:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:39:55 GMT]]>You can go to Scoop Of Art, you can do different arts crafty stuff there and just relax when you want to!

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/963867https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/963867Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:39:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:02:53 GMT]]>Simple Origami?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/956873https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/956873Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:02:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:14:19 GMT]]>

Imami:
Can anyone help me with this -


Bought some sponge brushes. Wanted to try out using sponge brushes to paint big areas of space (more efficient) but the colours didn't come out well. I am using poster colours. Will it differ if I use water colours?
think it depends on the quality of the poster colours? The crayola paint bottles are quite good...

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/952584https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/952584Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:14:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:05:10 GMT]]>Hey new friends, am new here! Just browse through around this website and I came across a thread, (http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=50932) there's this company P;log I guess, where it gives me the idea of creating a photo book with them. I'm planning to use my old and new pictures of me and my mini-me and just simply explore our creativity! I think it would be lovely for memory sake and bonding session hehehe 🙂

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/952552https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/952552Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:05:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:05:41 GMT]]>I do scrapbooking with my kids and I gladly ‘donate’ my old scrapbook stash to them. They love playing around with the pretty patterned papers and embellishements. Most importantly, they enjoy the creative process of it.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/898832https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/898832Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:05:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:15:56 GMT]]>Can anyone help me with this -


Bought some sponge brushes. Wanted to try out using sponge brushes to paint big areas of space (more efficient) but the colours didn’t come out well. I am using poster colours. Will it differ if I use water colours?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/898812https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/898812Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:15:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:49:00 GMT]]>I have experienced many problem on how to train my 18 months old toddler motorskill. I have tried many ways to train him, such as motorskill training toys, send him for Montesorri School etc. I find it very hard to make him pay attention to the training in the class, due to him short attention behavior. Finally, I decided to train my 18 months old son at home. Here I share my seven easy methods of motorskill training for you to D.I.Y at home with your toddler.


Method #1 Cutting exercise.
Material you need for this is newspaper and a pair of toddler scissors. I bought toddler scissors from craft store, it is child safety scissor made of plastic. Draw a straight line on newspaper, ask your toddler to use the scissors to cut according to the straight line. The important thing is teach them how to hold the scissors to cut the newspaper. Parent have to demostrate to them many times on how to do it, before they master the skill.

Method #2 Pouring water.
This method is inspired from Montesorri book I read. Prepare a A3 size tray, three different sizes of cup and water. Fill the medium size cup with water, ask your toddler to pour the water from medium cup to big cup, then to smallest cup. Ensure they are doing this exercise within the A3 size tray area to avoid water splashing all over the place.

Method #3 Tearing paper.My son enjoy this exercise the most among all the exercises.
Prepare newspaper or recycle papers, the bigger size the better. Ask your toddler to tear the paper from big to small size, tear as many different sizes as possible.

Method #4 Tranferring beads.Buy some different sizes of beads from craft store. Collect some empty juice bottles at home. Ask your toddler to transfer beads from bottle to bottle, either pouring method, or use hand to pick the beads one buy one to fill up the bottle. Both ways are also exercising they motorskill.

Method #5 Scribble on newspaper or recycle paper.
Prepare a big piece of newspaper by joining four pieces of newspaper into one big piece. Let your toddler choose one crayon, and let them scribble on the paper. You can demostrate to them how to do circular, how to draw straight line etc.

Hope you can try above five methods at home with your toddlers!

Article from
http://www.rightbrainparenting.blogspot.sg/search?updated-max=2008-10-03T03:31:00-07:00&max-results=20
http://rightbrainkidsart.blogspot.sg/

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/887642https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/887642Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:49:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:11:07 GMT]]>@DYJH Actually you do not need to purchase sand art craft…coloured salt is good enough…

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/880233https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/880233Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:11:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:02:52 GMT]]>I saw some kids at shopping centre doing some craft works but never know what is that cos never have time to check out. Recently, I went to Pa Sat Ma Lam and won 1pc of sand art craft, when home tried with my 3 yrs old gals and found it quite fun. But half way thru the craft, realised some colour sand not enough cos they only give very small pack of sand. e.g. like Hello kitty, the white colour need a lot then we never complete the craft.


I was looking to see where to sell it but seem can't find it anywhere. Not in stationery shop or in Popular, where they only sell in sets and only come with small packs of sand too. Then I search thru googles but can't seem to find anything and almost wanted to order from overseas. Finally, I found http://www.eplayeurs.com/, they sell quite a few of craft and also send lose sand, most importantly, they are very economic in price. The lady who I speak with also very helpful.

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/840810https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/840810Mon, 03 Sep 2012 08:02:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Sat, 25 Aug 2012 07:40:19 GMT]]>Thanks dots… any more suggestions anyone?

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/832581https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/832581Sat, 25 Aug 2012 07:40:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:09:29 GMT]]>Daiso does have felt! Good variety of colours too!! Go check it out 🙂

]]>https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/828213https://forum.kiasuparents.com/post/828213Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:09:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What are the crafting activities you can do with your child? on Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:25:03 GMT]]>@Dots..... Wow I am really impressed and motivated to read what you did with your girl.....hope more parents will share like you 🙂


Yeah, I love engaging my daughter in painting too.....somehow this is fastest and the most natural way to learn about colours instead of drilling her \"RED is RED\" and I know you understand what I meant right?.....

Beads is something I would really love to explore......but at the age of 2 not sure if this is a good option.....There might be a risk of her mouthing the bead.....so better try it at a later stage....

Felt is another interesting materials but I find that felt materials in SG are quite expensive.....saw some at POPULAR at Bras Basah and find it quite ex... 😞 hope Daiso sells them soon 🙂

Thanks for sharing 🙂

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