Your Guide to Home Learning: Kids Crafts
With lockdown in full force, you might already be feeling a little stir crazy. Juggling kids at home all day is no easy task, so we’ve come up with some creative activities to keep you and your little ones entertained. These are great projects for kids aged 4 to 10 (younger ones need a helping hand), using materials you’ll likely have around the house. If you’re tackling working while the kids are home, these can act as mini-breaks from your inbox, or as a reward to spend time with your kids when you clock out.
Check out these 4 awesome crafts plus 1 heart-pumping exercise break, for when everybody needs to get their sillies out!
Hands Up: Lemon Starfish
Activity Time: 25 minutes (5-minute episode plus activity)
Best for kids aged 4 – 10
Materials: Lemons, watercolour paint and tissues (don’t worry: just 1 or 2 will do!)
The Craft: Kids are guided through an art project of painting starfish and then adding in decorative detail with the help of a squeezed lemon!
Learning Outcome: Kids find out how lemon juice reacts with paint – the results are pretty cool!
Hands Up: Rainbow Fish
Activity Time: 25 minutes (5-minute episode plus activity)
Best for kids aged 4 – 10
Materials: Watercolour paint, salt, and tinfoil
The Craft: Using paper and paint, kids are guided through an art project painting a pretty seascape. Add a few sprinkles of salt and some tinfoil fish, and you’ve got a masterpiece!
Learning Outcome: Kids find out how salt crystals react with watercolours!
Marvellous Makes: Spongey Snapper
Activity Time: 30 minutes (4-minute episode plus activity)
Best for kids aged 4 – 10
Materials: A sponge, white paper, a red and black pen, and glue
The Craft: Kids are guided through this charming craft that turns an everyday washing up sponge into a super cute snappy creature!
Learning Outcome: Kids will learn to see the imaginative opportunities in everyday items, which encourages creative problem solving.
Box Yourself Minis: Napkin Ghouls
Activity Time: 25 minutes (3-minute episode plus activity)
The Craft: Now all that loo roll you fought so hard to hoard has an extra use! Kids will transform the empty rolls into a cute napkin holder, perfect for the family dinner table.
Materials: Empty loo rolls (the hot ticket item), paint, cardboard
Learning Outcome: Kids will learn about upcycling and finding new uses for otherwise discarded objects. Try using your new ghoul napkin holders at an impromptu “dinner party” at home!
5-minute fitness break: bear race
This exercise is great for building core and shoulder strength. Get on all fours with your hands on the ground like “paws”, your knees bent behind you, and your hips raised. Look forward and start crawling like a bear! Race your kiddos side-by-side and see who can finish 4 lengths of the room the fastest! Make it even more fun by adding a few dramatic “roars” to your crawl. Do this for a few minutes and you’ll get all the tummy benefits of planking, in a much more playful way!
We know that being stuck inside can feel cramped, and we’re here to help as we all get through this challenging time. We hope these crafts help to cheer up the whole family, and keep spirits high in your household. We’re all in this together!