28 Words: 5 January Craft Ideas for Kids
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For many January is a winter wonderland, filled with beautiful scenes of snow and ice. If you are planning a craft for children in this chilly moth, you might want to consider using the season as your inspiration. The following are some January craft ideas for kids.
Make a paper icicle
This craft has been made by children for decades because of its simplicity and ease to make. Simply have the children take a piece of paper and fold it in different ways. They you can use scissors to make cuts in the paper. When you open it up, you may have your very own snowflake. No two will be alike! You can finish there or you can have the children continue to decorate it with items such as markers, crayons, colored pencils, glitter, sequins, paper, feathers and any other items you want. They can also put a piece of string at the top so that they can hang it. You can have them make one or they can make a variety of them, which they can then hang from a hanger to make a little mobile.
Snowman craft
To continue in the snow and winter theme, they could make a craft of a snowman. There are different ways to do this. You could take some cloth and have them put cotton in and put rubber bands around it to make it into sections. Then you will need to sew the bottom and this can make a little snowman doll. This might be good for someone who is older. A younger child can just take some white paper, cut it into circles and paste it together into a snowman shape. They can then decorate it with paper or other items to make the mouth, carrot nose, scarf, mittens and other items.
New Year’s craft
Another nice craft to do, especially with an older child, would be to make a craft related to New Year’s. You could have them make some decorations and then print out a calendar to put underneath it. If you want to do a huge project they can even make an entire calendar, with a different decoration for each month. This could be something that they could then hang up to keep all year long.
A craft is a wonderful way for children to learn. Obviously be sure to gear the craft towards the age of the children. Sometimes you could make the same craft, you might just have to do extra for the younger children. Consider the above crafts when setting up your plans.
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