10 Reasons To Craft with Your Kids
Crafting is a great activity that parents and children can do together. It offers many benefits for mums, dads and little ones, too.
Crafting could be something simple like sticking pictures from a magazine onto a piece of art block paper. Or, it could be something more difficult like making a multi-coloured wax egg (parents who grew up in the 1970s will remember this one).
These days there are many centres and places that offer craft classes for children. For parents this is a way to get the children out of the house and out of their hair for an hour or two while mum and dad do the grocery shopping nearby. For kids, it’s a chance to learn new craft ideas and see how creative the other children their age are.
However, crafting is not something that has to be “learnt”.
You could do it at home with your little ones. All you need is whatever you have at home and your imagination.
Old newspapers and magazines can be used, so can egg cartons and old shoe boxes.
Crafting has many benefits:
1) Developing fine motor skills. It helps small children develop their fine motor skills as they have to cut paper and even stick things together.
2) It helps children focus. Completing a craft takes determination and some amount of focus and discipline. As the result is satisfying and personally rewarding, children will want to finish it so they can show off the final product to their parents and friends.
by Brigitte Rozario.
Source : http://parenthots.com/features/
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