Young children generally love making crafts, and in a daycare setting, crafts are often an easy and quick way to entertain the children, while also developing fine motor skills and reinforcing educational concepts.
Daycare crafts for the holidays are also parent favorites, as they make wonderful gifts for the grandparents or holiday decorations!
The following five craft ideas are perfect for toddlers and preschoolers in a childcare setting.
1. Light Up Christmas Tree Craft
The All Kids Network has a wonderful Light Up Christmas Tree Craft that is perfect for developing fine motor skills, learning colors and shapes, learning how to glue, and celebrating the holidays.
This adorable craft is perfect for kids of all ages.
Toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy using a hole punch in order to make the Christmas tree lights, and even the youngest toddlers can help glue tissue paper squares behind the holes to make a beautiful paper Christmas tree.
With Frozen fever striking toddlers everywhere, this snowman craft is great for Olaf fans. Mrs. Crosbie’s adorable snowman craft can easily be adapted for multiple age ranges.
Older kids will enjoy making a winter scene out of construction paper before using bubble wrap to paint a snowfall, while younger kids can be given a premade scene and some bubble wrap to paint with.
This craft is also good for daycares and preschoolers that want to celebrate winter without celebrating specific holidays.
3. Handprint Reindeer
Parents love children’s crafts that can be lasting reminders of just how small their children were.
The Examiner has provided instructions for an adorable reindeer craft that uses the child’s own handprint to form the head of the reindeer.
Teachers or caregivers first trace the child’s hand onto construction paper, and then the child’s hand can be placed in paint and then carefully placed in the center of the paper tracing.
The child then adds eyes and a nose to the reindeer. A string or piece of yarn can also be added to the back in order to turn the craft into an ornament.
Not every daycare craft has to go home with the child.
Sometimes, the kids’ creations can be used to help decorate the classroom as well!
This Class Christmas Tree from For the Children is perfect for getting the entire daycare involved in decorating the classroom or building.
Each child is given a paper plate to decorate, and then all of the plates are arranged together to make a giant class Christmas tree.
This tree also has an added bonus, as it is much safer than having a large tree in the daycare where there is a potential for knocking over the tree.
5. Homemade Holiday Cards
Finally, no matter what holiday your children celebrate, everyone can help make holiday cards.
Molly Moo gives several cute ideas for children to use to make adorable cards, including thumbprint penguins! Older kids can even practice their handwriting skills with this project!
What sort of arts and crafts do you make in your daycare for the holidays?
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