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Gifts are already made and bought? Then what is left is to add some festivity and the atmosphere of surprise to each thing. With the help of some unique wrapping paper! It can be made at home, together with a child (even a tot).
One of these days, while Soniya (21 mo) was painting with finger paints, I was experimenting with Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, crafts, Creative Work, design, do-it-yourself, early-childhood development, holidays, ideas, kids, painting with children, presents, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day
Before Soniya (19 mo) went to the first in her life New Year Children’s Party, we had made several crafts devoted to this topic together with her. I was involved in experimenting with ideas on how one can depict the New Year’s Tree and our creative process which included different techniques turned out to be extremely interesting for our daughter. We are sharing our ideas with you. All these pictures could be nice postcards for relatives and friends on the New Year’s Eve. And we are sure almost everyone will appreciate a card made by a child.
New Year’s Tree Crafts with a child of 18 mo:
This New Year’s tree was painted with a fir-tree branch and finger paints. Then Soniya Read the rest of this entry »
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Soniya got acquainted with finger paints on the day of her first birthday (I decided to fill her day with “untraditional” activities 
). She attentively watched me opening the jar with blue paint, drawing it with my finger and putting the paint onto the sheet of paper. Then she did just the same – till some certain stage: instead of the paper, the paint went into her mouth (on all her five fingers!)
Afterwards, I ventured to show her the jars with finger paints only in three months. And we started with untraditional art – you can read about our first painting in our article “Art-balls”. Next time, Soniya created “picturesque” canvasses without the help of any improvised means, only with her fingers and palms.
However, painting was a success only when the child was in a good mood. Sometimes I placed a sheet of paper and paints in front of Soniya and she seemed not to know what to begin with: she made a line with the paint on her finger and that was it. The child needed to rise onto the next stage in painting! But what could it be?
We tried untraditional methods of painting. Mirror image painting. It is really much fun! We made about 10 paintings at a time!
But one cannot eternally paint applying one and the same technique. Imprinting and Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: children, Creative Work, design, early-childhood development, home schooling, ideas, kids, painting with children
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