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How to Decorate A Kid’s Room With Pre-School Crafts

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Finger-painting is where it is at when it comes to preschool crafts. All you need is bowls or shallow plates filled with different colors of water-based paint. The child, who is hopefully wearing old clothes, is then allowed to dip his or her palm print in paint and press it onto a piece of paper. Spreading a piece of plastic on the floor and table areas is also recommended whenever you are dealing with finger-painted preschool crafts.

A child’s painted handprint pressed onto a heart shaped piece of paper is one of the simplest gifts that a preschooler can give to a family. Another popular version of this preschool craft is to have the preschool press his or her palm into a slab of wet clay. The clay is then left to dry, painted and presented as a plaque to mom, grandma or whoever else would cherish such a personal and heartfelt gift for Christmas, Mother’s Day or Valentine’s Day. At Christmas, single handprints can be dangled from the Christmas tree and used as decorations.

Among the most popular of preschool Easter crafts is the hand-printed daisy. This consists of a number of children placing their palm prints onto a large piece of paper in a circular fashion so the end result resembles the petals of a large flower. Another version of this preschool craft project is to allow the preschools to place their handprint on a large piece of construction paper. These multi-colored handprints are then cut out and placed in a circle around a pie plate or similar object to create a large daisy. This daisy preschool craft project is also sometimes called “The Circle of Friends.”

Favorite Halloween preschool crafts include cutting out eyes out of a sheet to make a ghost costume and decorating pumpkins with big magic markers to create scary faces. Preschoolers can also be encouraged to create their own monsters using a bit of glue and shapes (such a teeth and scary eyes) precut from construction paper or felt.

For Easter, you and the kids can decorate hard-boiled eggs to resemble chicks, lambs and cartoon characters using markers, construction paper and cotton balls. This is one of the more entertaining preschool crafts, especially if you pass the same egg around to several children who have markers or paints and ask each to add a detail to the egg creature.

Homemade bookmarks and cards, colored with crayons markers, make great Mother’s day and Valentine’s day crafts. Photographs of the kids, pasted on the front of the homemade card turn this heartfelt preschool craft into a charming gift.

There is no lack of inspiration for preschool crafts on the Internet. All you have to do to find scores of ideas for preschool crafts is type words like preschool crafts or easy preschool crafts into your search engine and you will most certainly find a project that is sure to engage the imagination and creative talents of your preschooler.

How to Decorate A Kid’s Room With Dr. Seuss Crafts

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Dr. Seuss crafts and activities are based on the popular children’s character’s various individual books. Perhaps the simplest of Dr. Seuss crafts is to make a Dr. Seuss hat by simply painting a paper bag with white and red stripes. Yarn can be used to make sure that the hat sits tight on the child’s head and doesn’t slip over his or her eyes. This kind of hat relates to one of the most famous of the Dr. Seuss books – The Cat in the Hat.

A more complicated Dr. Seuss hat is constructed out of a paper plate and strips of red and white construction paper. The construction paper is taped together to form the body of the hat and a paper plate is used to cap off the top of the hat. Parents or grandparents might also want to consider creating their own Dr. Seuss crafts that kids can wear such as red and white striped stockings or a Dr. Suess hat. If you type in Dr. Seuss Hat knitting pattern into a popular search engine such as Google, Overture or Yahoo you are sure to find all kinds of Dr. Seuss related clothing that can knitted for children.

The book one One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish inspires Dr. Seuss crafts such as fish art and fish shapes. To make fish art, trying pouring blue tinted corn syrup onto a piece of construction paper that has been cut into the shape of a fish bowl. Fish shapes can be cut out of magazines or traced out of construction paper.

A Dr. Suess craft idea that suits the book Green Eggs and Ham involves dying raw eggs green. Later the eggs can be broken into a skillet and served as scramble eggs.

The general term Dr. Seuss crafts also includes a description of a cross-stitch that is named after the author. The Dr. Seuss stitch is a kind of cross stitch that is done with what is called an Assissi stitch, which is basically a cross stitch that is turned inside out.

When we say “inside out,” we mean that the stitches are the same but the design rules are completely reversed. Unlike traditional cross stitch, the outlining in Assisi work is done first and then the background is filled with cross stitch. In traditional Assisi work, the outlines are always worked before the cross stitching using a particular type of backstitch called Holbein or double running stitch. The reason Holbein stitch is used instead of ordinary backstitch is because it’s reversible (the stitching looks the same on the back as it does on the front). The even weave or aide inside the outline is left unstitched or “voided.” This gives the motifs the look of a modern stencil type pattern. This very contemporary look that is typical of Dr. Seuss crafts styles of stitching.