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Give your Children Educational Crafts for Thanksgiving this year, not Copycat Crafts
Why not use a Thanksgiving crafts making activity as an excuse to spend some special time with your kids. You will also be allowing them some really wonderful art experiences.
Children that end up being given alot of crafts, most often end up with what I call “copycat crafts”. Crafts projects are often tradtional and encourage copying a model of an adults.
When this is done it strips the activity of any creativity along with thinking skills. It also takes away the possiblity of developing a good self esteem.
There is almost no better way for children to develp their creativity than by doing Educational crafts. It not only helps their creativity but it also hones their problem solving skills and jumpstarts their self esteem.
To give you an idea of how one can move away from copycat arts and crafts to Educational Arts and Crafts I am going to share with you an educational arts and crafts activity you can do with children for Thanksgiving.
(plus some links to more activities)
In my e course Learning Through Crafts I discuss the various categories that the many different activities go under.
A really enjoyable category is called cafeteria style. This is arts and crafts that has an end result (as opposed to just process only art, where the art activity itself is the desired outcome) but allows children to choose how to finish it “cafeteria style”.
This particular category of Educational Crafts, cafeteria style, is one that is great for various developmental levels. While each child gets the same base or template for the projects, they each get to create the project according to where they are developmentally with a large amount of materials available to them to decorate with.
When children are given choices in creating art it add many skills.
They need to decide on their own what to choose and how to create the crafts.This encourages initiaitive takiing and independence.
The challenge is then to figure out solutions to the different problems that arise. Is there enough glue for the amount of papers they want to glue or should they use a piece of fabric or shiny paper for their picture.
Creativity is of course at the forefront, as they are given leeway to create, which makes their self esteem shoot up.
Allow me to share with you an activity using one category of Educational Arts and Crafts
Since Thanksgiving is a Holiday where we learn about Pilgrims and Indians it is a wonderful time of year for the children to do crafts that are Indian related.
One idea is to make objects that the Indians themselves used.
If you are going to recreate and Indian pow-wow along with Indian dances then drums would be a great craft to make.
Step #1
The next step would be for the children to receive an empty, cylinder container that they can use for the drum.
Empty oatmeal containers are really ideal, but any other large enough cylinder like empty coffee containers work as well.
Step #2
Offer the children a choice of different materials to cover the container. When construction paper is the only type available, add lots of colors as choices.
You can however,. offer them, shiny paper, wallpaper pieces, materials, tissue paper etc to completely cover the container.
MAke sure the covering is glued on well before proceeding to the next step.
Step #3
Learning about the many art materials available will make it easeir for you to present lots of choices. Pieces of ribbon, yarn, rick rack, sequins, string, feathers, pieces of leather, small cut up shapes of shiny colors all can contribute to the decoration of their drums.
If you look closely at the way different age children work, you will notice how the young ones put down materials indiscriminately while older children deliberate more before pasting.
Of course once the drums are done, you must decide how you will cover them.
Step #4
If you still have the covers from the oatmeal container or coffee can you can use those.
If not, you will need to get some sort of heavy gauge plastic, like a heavy balloon, thick plastic or an old beach ball.
Stretch this material over the top and secure with a rubber band. (adds an old fashioned drum look to it)
Have your own Indian pow-wow by having the children use their palms or sticks on the drums.
This is only one way of using the cafeteria style in making art with children.
If youd like you can even make creative turkeys with the kids that is an old traditional copycat crafts made anew.
You can also experiment with lots of Thanksgiving Indian clay utensils the Indians used to make to use on a daily basis.
Whatever you do make with the children just have Happy Thanksgiving and be sure to have the children be aware of how much they actually have to be grateful for.
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