We always talk about taking children to cultural centers and museums to let them feel the art and their capacity for surprise and creativity can flow.
And it is true, children, if we leave them a little freedom when interpreting what they see and what they feel, they can enjoy a lot touring the rooms of a museum or an art gallery, you just have to try it and insist a little in it and with them.
But there is something that children like more than observing and is acting, doing themselves, manipulating, creating, building and for that. Today we bring you 15 crafts for children fast and easy for them to do or to do with them because who says that these crafts or others, can not start sprouting future works of art?
We have already seen that there are numerous books in which inspiration runs through each of its pages, books full of ideas to spend more than a moment between rubber, glue, cards and much imagination.
Today we are going to much more concrete ideas ...
Paint
Paint with watercolors, with tempera, with oils if you have at home. And we can make some fun Photo frames if we paint, for example, the inside of the cereal boxes and cut them to serve as a frame for a photo or a children's work of art or even a motivational phrase that we can then hang in your room.
We can take advantage of e go preparing the next birthday wrapping paper. With a roll of paper and the imagination of our little artists, we can create unique and unrepeatable gift papers and even with personalized messages included for the birthday boy to whom we dedicate the paper and the gift of its interior ...
Or even if we have some inner cardboard rolls of toilet paper we could do a sculpture with a little paint, a lot of imagination and a few drops of glue Anything cool can come out.
Tetrabricks can give us a lot of play in this craft, if you cut it in half and keep the bottom, we can do Great pots for small plants. On the one hand the entertainment of making pots, trimming and of course! decorate later so that the pot is really pretty. And on the other hand plant the seeds or the plant that we want in the pot that we just built and decorate together. Finally, we only have to look for a place to place our plant and take care of it so that it does not stop growing.
It is very entertaining paint stones also and in summer we can invest a while first to locate them, pick them up and clean them if necessary. Then we can decide if we want to paint something in particular, we can make a domino, we can paint the characters in a story ... or we can let the imagination fly and paint the first thing that comes to mind. Of course, once painted and when the work is dry, it is convenient to give some kind of varnish so that the paint does not leave us at the least thoughtful moment.
Sure that a white shirt to go to the beach we will have on hand, what better than to let everyone paint theirs for this summer, to be easily identifiable, to be the most original of the beach or the pool, to spend some time entertaining and to show that this fashion ... is a matter of taste and creativity
WashiTape
If you do not have any at home you will surely find where to buy them as a matter of urgency, for the afternoon of crafts they are essential and the game that gives small artists is the best.
- With these "color jealousy" you can for example flip those awful advertising magnets They accumulate in our fridge. You cut them carefully and then you force them (from the advertising side, of course) with the washitapes that you like best. The messages in the fridge with these magnets will be much more pleasing to the eye if we paste them with these new tuned magnets.
Corks
They are very versatile but it will always depend on the amount that you have been able to accumulate. If you have little, we take a look again at the fridge magnets or any metal surface you have at home. Cut in half and glued on the magnet, they are already perfect, if you also paint them, decorate them and let the little artists of the house express themselves freely, surely you will find magnificent works of art.
If you have more, you can consider manufacturing a placemat glueing them to each other and making a cool and flat shape with the whole.
Or you can even paste them inside a frame and with small hooks you make a frame of the most original in which to hang the keys or necklaces of someone in the family.
To model
Yes, we can do homemade plasticine It is not necessary to buy it when we can manufacture it at home directly following some very simple instructions that you find in numerous blogs, websites and even in infographics that you can see on Pinterest, by the way for this crafts, this social network is a source of inspiration as There is no other.
Or who says modeling clay why not salt paste? You can always work, bake in the oven and then decorate according to the inspiration of the artist we have at home. It is easy to prepare, the ingredients are common and common and can help us spend more time entertaining and very creative at home this summer.
And fimo? Have you tried to model a pin or brooch with fimo paste, paint it to your liking, bake it in the oven and then paste some kind of safety pin from behind so you can hang it on the beach bag, in your backpack or on your shirt? Well maybe this is the time to try it ...
Picture
- The buttons that we accumulate at home and that sometimes one does not even know how they came, are perfect to make a picture of the most colorful. A painting with the artist's initial, for example. We hit the buttons in a cardboard or in a sturdy cardboard or on a canvas, we choose the colors that we like the most and then we can always put it on the wall of your bedroom or on the door of your room.
Photos
- Yes do a set of photos in the living room from home sticking a sheet, a tablecloth or a towel to a wall, take funny pictures, make them and after they are edited on the computer with any of the different free programs that we can download. Or even, the more "normal" photos can have a very different life with a little imagination and some editing like these that a father made to his son and that can serve as an inspiration.
The fun is guaranteed and sure for more than one afternoon.
