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Picnic Table Talk: Arts and Crafts for Kids

I was really excited when I heard that the picnic table talk topic for this week was arts and crafts. As the title of my blog implies, I love crafting with and for my children. I wrote about things I do to encourage creativity in our home here (there are more excellent ideas in the comments for that post). That post inspired this post about crafting in tight and/or rented spaces (there are some great suggestions in the comments for this post also). Crafting can get pretty messy, so I shared my best laundry tips and tricks here.

 

How to create a home makerspace for kids

Here are a couple favorite activities I made up with my kids:

Emma has recently started inventing her own craft activities, which is very fun and rewarding to see.

I’m always a fan of free-style art, and let’s not forget nature’s art. I try to let my kids play outdoors as much as possible, weather permitting, and I’ve even been known to bring the outdoors in on particularly blistery days.

I love art supplies. Here are the basics that I try to always have on hand:

Other items I like to have around:

I also recently bought some Crayola paint-filled brushes that I love (and blogged about here). I’m pretty loyal towards Crayola products, in no small part because I ingested ridiculous quantities of their art supplies as a child and still turned out okay. Not that I recommend ever ingesting art supplies of any brand in any quantity, but I appreciate the non-toxic and frequently washable nature of Crayola products.

I look forward to reading everyone else’s posts about arts and crafts!

MaryAnne is a craft loving educator, musician, photographer, and writer who lives in Silicon Valley with her husband Mike and their four children.

10 thoughts on “Picnic Table Talk: Arts and Crafts for Kids”

  1. Those mats are a genius idea and I just added desk protector to my shopping list. Brad is going to wonder when he see that!

  2. Thanks for the ideas. I bookmarked the geometric felt shapes as something I want to do for my boys. I also loved the placemat ideas.

  3. Holly@MotherIsNotConcerned

    Great ideas! I think I'll do the geometric shapes–I've been wanting to do something with all the felt I have.

  4. teachingyoungchildren

    Thank you for stopping at my blog and offering some encouragement. Your children are positively lucky, and Emma clearly inherited your talents. Her drawings are amazingly detailed. I will bookmark this post and come back for ideas soon :)

  5. Katie, Kevin and kids

    I love your reminder about using Nature for art.
    The houseplan map looks like an idea I would have fun doing too!
    Thanks for linking to this week's picnic table talk.

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