Craft Box And Three Indoor Crafts For A Rainy Day

You first need a designated craft box in your house. It can be a shoe box or any old cardboard box. You can even use a drawer in your house as a craft box Totally up to you. Does not have to be anything fancy but just some space assigned for storing things you need for all the craft activities. You might be storing some small objects in this craft box, so if you have young children store it out of reach from your kids.

Here are some things you can store in your craft box: glue, glue sticks, paper, scissors, crayons, markers, water based paints, paint brushes. Visit your local thrift store (two dollar shop) and pick up some buttons, popsicles, coloured paper bits, felt, googly eyes and any other thing you think might be useful. Don't spend a fortune You can pick some really good stuff for under twenty five dollars in a two dollar shop.

From then on, if you come across anything that you think can belong in the craft box, put them in there example: pieces of paper, old socks (you can make a sock puppet) etc.

Here are some good craft ideas:

Plate Drums
Take a paper plate Turn the plate over and get your child to do some painting, colouring on the plate. Fold it in half - Put some rice or anything else you think that can make a good musical noise when you shake it. Staple along the edges Make sure your child's art is displayed on the outer side. Shake Shake Shake You now have a musical instrument in your hands.

Popsicle Puppets
Make some puppets using popsicles, pipe cleaners and google eyes. Make up a story with the puppets. You now have your own puppet show.

Potato Prints
Cut a potato in half or even smaller. With a pencil draw a design on the cut pieces. Carve your design with the pencil you can also cut around the pencil outline. Place paint in tray or paper plate in a thin layer. Press potato design into paint and firmly press onto paper for impression.

Sock Puppets
You can use any sock for this I prefer a colourful sock for this activity. Using a glue gun, attach yarn hair you can even add on some moustache. Stick eyes on. That's it you now have your own sock puppet. Make a few more characters. Recreate a scene from one of your child's favourite books.

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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