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How a Simple Thanskgiving Crafts Project Can Teach Your Child To Think
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 do alot of crafts projects often end up doing tradtional, copycat crafts. By doing crafts with children and following an adults model, one is doing crafts in an old, traditional manner.
hat this does is along with the creativity that is taken away, many cognitive skills are also removed.
The way that Educational Crafts is done incorportes some vital skills like, problem solving, thinking, creativity and most importantly, helps develop a good 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".
The ideal way to give children choices in art is by giving them cafeteria style crafts. They make a project according to the adults inital direction but then get to choose how to make it their own by decorating it with the array of materials that you the adult will present to them .
It is so important to allow choices in arts and crafts as its not just good practice but gives so many good skills for kids.
Every kid needs to decide for herself the items she will use and how she will use them.This encourages initiaitive takiing and independence.
They then need to solve the many probllems that come up. Should they cut up this one large piece of collage material into many smaller pieces or should they attempt to fit the large one onto the space they have available.
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.
A wonderful instrument to make for your own recreation of an Indian tribal pow-wow would be drums.
Step #1
The best thing to use for the drum would be an empty cylinder like container.
Empty oatmeal containers are really ideal, but any other large enough cylinder like empty coffee containers work as well.
Step #2
There are so many types of container coverings to offer the children but you need to do some collecting. Shiny paper, tissue paper, gift wrapping paper, aluminum foil and maybe some fabric are just some ideas. If all you have is construction paper, at least make sure you have alot of colors to choose from.
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
Even though you should allow for lots of choice in presenting materials to decorate with, don't overwhelm the children. 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.
Toddlers and even children a bit older than that usually work without thinking, pasting down wherever there hand falls. Older kids however, do think before they paste.
Now that the drums are all decorated, they need to be finished by covering up.
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. (more artsy and Indain looking)
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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