Arts and Crafts for your Toddler
Kids Love Stickers
You can buy a package of stickers and a package of construction paper and help your toddler put the stickers on. They really enjoy the process, although they aren’t too interested in the finished product at this toddler stage. But they will have fun putting the stickers on, with your help.
Make a Collage
Buy a roll of clear contact paper. You can cut a piece and tape it to the surface of the table you’re working on. Your child can then easily make a collage with any kind of material that sticks on the contact paper, such as confetti. Your child will enjoy dribbling the confetti over the paper, and then pressing it down to make it stick. You can also rip up construction paper into smaller pieces and use that instead of confetti. When you are finished, place another piece of contact paper of the same size over the first one, and voila! You have a lovely work of art suitable for giving to Grandma or hanging on the refrigerator.
Play Dough and Finger Paint
The time period when children put everything they get hold of into their mouths seems to go on forever. But you can now make edible play dough and finger paints (not suitable if your child has nut allergies). Just be sure to let your toddler know that not all play dough is edible – or even worth tasting.
Edible Play Dough
1/4 cup smooth peanut butter
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons powdered milk
Chocolate drink mix
Mix all the ingredients together until it makes a doughy consistency. Add enough drink mix so that the mixture is not sticky. Then the dough is ready for playtime.
Edible Finger Paints
1 small pack instant vanilla pudding mix
1/2 cup water
Different colored food coloring
Mix the ingredients together and put into several containers. Add a different color food coloring to each pot and mix well. Start finger painting.
You can buy a package of stickers and a package of construction paper and help your toddler put the stickers on. They really enjoy the process, although they aren’t too interested in the finished product at this toddler stage. But they will have fun putting the stickers on, with your help.
Make a Collage
Buy a roll of clear contact paper. You can cut a piece and tape it to the surface of the table you’re working on. Your child can then easily make a collage with any kind of material that sticks on the contact paper, such as confetti. Your child will enjoy dribbling the confetti over the paper, and then pressing it down to make it stick. You can also rip up construction paper into smaller pieces and use that instead of confetti. When you are finished, place another piece of contact paper of the same size over the first one, and voila! You have a lovely work of art suitable for giving to Grandma or hanging on the refrigerator.
Play Dough and Finger Paint
The time period when children put everything they get hold of into their mouths seems to go on forever. But you can now make edible play dough and finger paints (not suitable if your child has nut allergies). Just be sure to let your toddler know that not all play dough is edible – or even worth tasting.
Edible Play Dough
1/4 cup smooth peanut butter
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons powdered milk
Chocolate drink mix
Mix all the ingredients together until it makes a doughy consistency. Add enough drink mix so that the mixture is not sticky. Then the dough is ready for playtime.
Edible Finger Paints
1 small pack instant vanilla pudding mix
1/2 cup water
Different colored food coloring
Mix the ingredients together and put into several containers. Add a different color food coloring to each pot and mix well. Start finger painting.
Just remember that an 18-month-old may love these activities, but they aren’t yet proud of their finished product. That comes later. So you can be the proud one and praise your child for her accomplishment!
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