Yes, I will post this in one of the parenting communities too but I know I have some way cool parents on my f-list, so am asking here too
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make a mosaic with you? painting a mug/plate/other ceramic object? facepainting? (him on you, if you're v brave :) ) hand- and foot-painting? (using his hands and feet to paint on paper) um, teach him to sew or knit? weaving? (make a basic loom using a cardboard box and some string)
Hrm. If he likes painting on things, balsa-wood models might be up his alley. Logan used to like doing miniature airplane kits and such with Robin and me, too, but those are pricier than the balsa-wood, as they get more detailed. If you have a pottery shop nearby that will rent out kiln space, ceramics are fun. Slightly pricier version of that is jewelry/art sculpting with metal clay. And there are always building and flying kites and doing origami, too.
So not a parent, but gonna answer anywayrhiannon76March 29 2011, 19:10:52 UTC
Does he like to sculpt? Making stuff with fimo or sculpy could be fun. Or papier-mache (which he could then paint on)-- in elementary school art class we used paper towel/toilet paper rolls, newspaper, cardboard, and masking tape to make the framework and then covered it with papier-mache stuff to create a solid surface, then painted and decorated them. (I made a flying horsie! :)
What about making masks, using cardboard or paper plates as a base and decorating with paint, crayons, glitter, found natural materials, etc?
Rainsticks are easy to make too-- just take a cardboard tube (toilet paper, paper towel, whatever), fill with a small amount of dry beans or rice or sand or pebbles, cover up the ends with tape, and decorate the outside however you like.
If you have old clothes or towels laying around that you don't mind tearing up, cut them into strips for weaving. You can also sculpt with fabric and glue and incorporate other items as well. (Pretty much almost anything you can do with paper mache you can do with fabric and glue.)
He might be a little too young for wire work yet, but depending on his manual dexterity, maybe not. You can get decorative wire at most craft or bead shops and the sculpting/building possibilities are almost endless.
My step-grandson is at the OMG! Craft! stage, and loves to construct things. We keep a "useful box" here for him, and things like toilet roll tubes, paper towel tubes, egg carton, popsicle sticks (new ones), bits of felt, fabric, ribbon, feathers, some water soluble glue, googly eyes and the like go into that. He'll happily spend a few hours crafting something (although I've had to put my foot down and say he can't use a whole roll of sticky tape at one go) and take it home with him. Sometimes we break out the paints and set them up.
So far we've ended up with a lot of 3-eyed aliens and "a bed for my toy [car, horse, dinosaur]", but it keeps him quiet and is far more constructive than just watching TV. Because almost all the stuff in the box is recycled, the cost is very low. We buy special bits and pieces from $2 shops and the like, but the majority of material is stuff we'd have thrown in the recycling anyway.
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painting a mug/plate/other ceramic object?
facepainting? (him on you, if you're v brave :) )
hand- and foot-painting? (using his hands and feet to paint on paper)
um, teach him to sew or knit?
weaving? (make a basic loom using a cardboard box and some string)
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What about making masks, using cardboard or paper plates as a base and decorating with paint, crayons, glitter, found natural materials, etc?
Rainsticks are easy to make too-- just take a cardboard tube (toilet paper, paper towel, whatever), fill with a small amount of dry beans or rice or sand or pebbles, cover up the ends with tape, and decorate the outside however you like.
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He might be a little too young for wire work yet, but depending on his manual dexterity, maybe not. You can get decorative wire at most craft or bead shops and the sculpting/building possibilities are almost endless.
Basic scrapbooking or making collages can be fun.
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My step-grandson is at the OMG! Craft! stage, and loves to construct things. We keep a "useful box" here for him, and things like toilet roll tubes, paper towel tubes, egg carton, popsicle sticks (new ones), bits of felt, fabric, ribbon, feathers, some water soluble glue, googly eyes and the like go into that. He'll happily spend a few hours crafting something (although I've had to put my foot down and say he can't use a whole roll of sticky tape at one go) and take it home with him. Sometimes we break out the paints and set them up.
So far we've ended up with a lot of 3-eyed aliens and "a bed for my toy [car, horse, dinosaur]", but it keeps him quiet and is far more constructive than just watching TV. Because almost all the stuff in the box is recycled, the cost is very low. We buy special bits and pieces from $2 shops and the like, but the majority of material is stuff we'd have thrown in the recycling anyway.
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