All You Need To Make Crafts At Home With Your Children, And Free Junk Modelling Tips

All You Need To Make Crafts At Home With Your Children, and Free Junk Modelling Tips

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mmnewbold

Encouraging your child s creativity at home by creating craft items is very beneficial for their mental development. Children can explore different textures, shapes and patterns, and discover how to put ideas into action by handling different materials, and sticking and gluing them together. But remember crafting can be great fun, and also a good way to spend some quality time with your children.

Buying materials from a craft store can be quite costly, so why not start your own junk/scraps box at home. All you need is a box or a large storage bag that you keep in a cupboard ready to store your household bits and pieces. It s easy to start collecting and is surprising how quickly your junk box or bag will begin to full. Just remember that every time you are in the kitchen preparing meals, keep all your empty boxes, tubs or cardboard tubes you would normally throw away, and add these to your craft box. Also, whenever you come across any interesting items, such as packaging and wrappers from birthdays and Christmas,you can put them in your box ready for when you want to make one of our crafts. Collect lots of items, from different shaped boxes, cardboard tubes, shiny paper, drinking straws, plastic bottle tops, and clean ice-lolly sticks.

Craft shops stock an extensive range of craft materials. Why not visit your local store and buy a selection of items to store in your box. Look out for cheaper end of lines, bargain buckets, and reduced price crafts that have damaged packaging. If you look out for bargains, or just buy one or two inexpensive items per week, you will quickly build up a good stock of craft materials in your home craft box. Look out for feathers, pom poms, wiggly eyes, wool, material, tissue paper, coloured paper and glitter. Even at Christmas you could collect lots of shiny things to use, including small pieces of tinsel, wrapping paper, ribbons, gift tags, parcel twine, and shiny foil sweet wrappers.

While out and about around the shops, check out fabric stores for material cut-offs and scraps, odd packs of buttons, and for cheap wool or yarn balls. Cookware shops often sell cheap wooden spoons and spatulas. You can make a whole family of spoon puppets just by sticking fabric and wool onto spoons and drawing on faces with felt-tipped pens.

Don t forget to always have lots of paint, coloured crayons, glue and sticky tape at home!

Here are some tips for home made Junk Modelling. This is so simple to make but you may get messy, so make sure you wear old clothes that you don t mind getting messy.

Junk Modelling

You will need:

Different shaped boxes,

Cartons, Tubes,

Lolly Sticks,

Feathers,

Glue,

Sticky tape,

Scissors

To Make – Stick together lots of different shaped boxes to make funny creatures, buildings, vehicles or robots. Stick on fur, lolly, sticks, shiny paper and feathers. Just let your child s creativity loose to invent their own creations.

Tip – If you are in a group, why not make a giant creature from large boxes.

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