What are some crafts that you can do with 2 yr olds?

Question

I work in a preschool but i have many diffrent ages because I am a floater but i want to know what some cheap and easy crafts 2 do with them

Answer 1

Well my friends kid like to play bob the apple in the bath tub...and yea you guessed it their not apples...excuse me while I barf

I would say finger paining...good hand eye coordination skills...and reading teaching them to identify pictures with words

Answer 2

Finger painting with pudding!!  This is so much fun with the little ones.  Don't ask them to glue at this age, just let them have fun!!

Non toxic, fun, cheap.  Buy the pudding in the individual serving cups, in chocolate, butterscotch, and vanilla, for different colors and easy sharing.

Answer 3

Play dough that you can bake as you will be with them you can make sure that they do not eat to much of it. Or get the baking clay and make some things to hang or put in their room. they love scribbling or painting cos its messy and fun, some water play outside in the baby tub or inside in the bath tub with boats made out of paper, leaves or tin foil,

Answer 4

-how to make boxes

-finger painting

Answer 5

Slippy silk. This is cornflour mixed with water. To brighten it up add some powder paint. The babies/children I work with love this. Be aware as it is messy.

Jelly play

Spaghetti play- another sensory activity, but they love to touch and eat it.

Play dough.

What about free painting? They could paint their hands, and make their own prints, use different paint brushes, sponges, etc.

I've also put different smelling herbs in some thin material and tied the top with bright ribbon. The children love smelling them and describing the smells. For a cheap alternative use fruit peel. They can then guess the smell.

They could make rice crispie cakes. (just need cooking chocolate and rice crispies). They love this and get in so much mess.

These are just few of the activities we do at our Nursery. Both children and myself enjoy doing them. Hope these ideas help. Good luck.

Answer 6

I love to use macaroni, colored rice and construction paper cut outs.  Then I use glue sticks and let them apply as they want.  It is great if you are making a scene on a paper.  Make cut outs of birds, flowers, stars, acorns, leaves.... and have them paste all sorts of stuff on the paper. You can make a great spring theme...or make a mask on a paper plate...or have cutouts of letters and have them paste them on with the corresponding picture...A goes with the picture of an Apple, or other "a" picture.  If you have any stamps of pictures they are fun too...

Answer 7

"paint" with shaving cream......and the  kids go home smelling so nice!

tearing magazine pictures and gluing them with glue sticks

coloring hard boiled eggs

Answer 8

Plant an organic garden and start a compost pile. Take digital pictures and label & frame them in English, Spanish, Latin and other language. Make art for kids in Children's Hospitals and senior centers, and deliver them.

Answer 9

fingerpainting

Answer 10

When my daughters were about two or three we would make flowers.  I would get them to place their hands on cardboard and trace it out.  (Leaves and pedals for the flower)  Using all kinds of different colors and all kinds of different amounts of pedals and leaves.  Simply cut out the hand prints and arrange them to make a flower.  My girls loved doing that.  We once made a huge flower garden on the kitchen wall..

Answer 11

popping bubble paper,  chalk on black paper,  ooblick ( corn starch and water  very messy),  water color painting on coffee filters to make flowers,  glue and glitter on paper,  playdoh,  freeze some paint in an ice cube tray with Popsicle sticks and paint with them,  put a jar of finger paint in the fridge and do chilled painting....................

Answer 12

Let them draw or paint or color.  Let them play with clay.  If you cut up construction paper in small pieces, they can do a mosaic.  Take a nature walk and collect leaves and flowers "weeds" and let them make a collage. Finger painting is also fun.  Let them color to music.

Stay away from projects that require too much teacher help.  Let it be the child's own work.  Also stay away from projects that all look the same.

Answer 13

Fingerpainting.

Answer 14

bubbles!! clay!!

Answer 15

I do daycare and have 3 that are around 2 yrs old. I usually rip up peices of coloured paper and put it in a box and then give them all a big peice of paper and they share a bowl of kids PVA and let them paste the peices of paper on whilst I watch over them. They love it too. Another thing I do with them is play dough, and cookie cutters, some have play dough rolling pins and knives and they make their own creation with that as well. Some may need help with the craft stuff, where as others dont really need to much help. It all depends on what level they are at. I try to have different things going on for them to chose what may be easier for them. Try looking on the internet for age appropriate craft ideas that how I get mine. Try this site uptoten.com. or the abc site, they have plenty of things for young children to do. why not instead of craft things, do hands on things with them like goop, they love getting there hands in that and yes it might make a mess but it can be easily cleaned. Set activities up and see what they can and cant do, then you'll know for next time. All of these kids are at different levels of milestones, so it really is a hard age to find something that works for them all.