8 Craft Ideas For The Rainy Day

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Toothpick Shapes
Insert toothpicks into marshmallows. Add marshmallows to make any shape you wish. You can add more than one marshmallow. Some of the shapes you can add: star, hexagon or complex structures like a tall building

Finger Painting
This can get a bit messy So pick a spot which can easily be cleaned. Put some aprons on your kids. Get some water soluble finger paints. Place a big chart or a paper or a canvas whatever is available. Now, like the name of the craft suggests, your child will dip his/her fingers into the paints and paint on the paper (using his/her fingers). This is real fun craft.

Heart Shape
Take a piece of cardboard Print out a heart template. Trace the heart shape on to the cardboard. You can stick some coloured paper on to the cut out cardboard. You child can decorate the heart shape as she wishes. Finally make a hole at the top of the heart shape and pass a string through it. Your child now hang the heart in his/her room.

Memory Box
You need an old shoe box (with a lid) Take some decorative paper or kids art paper (painting) and glue it over the the box. Your child can decorate the box as he/she wishes. This box can be used to store any keepsakes the like.

Tin Foil Shapes
Take a sheet of aluminium foil and squeeze it - shape it into something fun. Use more aluminium foil if you feel you need more to make your desired shape. Use some glue and mount it on a popsicle. You can use some yarn and attach some hair. These are now your puppets recreate a scene from your child's favourite book. You now have a puppet show in your hands.

Make Stamps
Cut out desired shapes out of a rubber eraser. You can also use fork or cork or cardboard. If the shape is two thin, stick the shape to a popsicle otherwise your fingers will get messy with the ink. Dip the shapes onto ink pad and press on paper.

Painting
This is the ever green craft activity. Painting can be done on a piece of paper or on a canvas.

Paper Phone
Take two paper cups. Poke holes with the nail in the bottom of the two cups. Push the string through the outside of the first cup and tie it to the paper clip on the inside. Tie the other end of the string to the second cup the same way. Now your phone is ready to use.

Always be on the look out for some sale items in your local craft shop. I subscribe to the newsletter of my local craft shop. This way I get to know what sales they are having I store up on some good craft goodies this way for the rainy day.


About the Author:
Emma Wilson Roberts is the Activity Coordinator at OzKidsActivities Pty Ltd. At OzKidsActivities one of her jobs is to add good quality schools that offer kids art classes to the online database.
Kids Art Classes is becoming quite popular and so this keeps Emma quite busy at her job.



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