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Thanksgiving Crafts Projects that Allow Children To Create their OWN projects not Copy an Adults
Making Thanksgiving crafts together with kids is a great way to spend time together plus allows the children to gain important skills.
A difficulty with lots of the crafts that are done is that they are done in copycat mode. A common, old fashioned way of doing crafts projects is the traditional way of following and adults model.
hat this does is along with the creativity that is taken away, many cognitive skills are also removed.
If children get involved in Educational Crafts this is a great way to get them to really think, solve different problems, get them creative and makes them feel really good about the projects that they create on their own.
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.
One of the most exciting categories is 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.
Skill building is something that can be worked on through art when kids are given choices and not just step by step instructions.
Without adult help, the kids need to choose the materials they want and then create the craft to the best of their ability and age level.This encourages initiaitive takiing and independence.
The challenge is then to figure out solutions to the different problems that arise. Did they use enough different colors for their picture or do they need to add more ribbons bordering their page.
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
You would need to supply the kids with a wide enough, round enough container that can be used as a drum.
Empty oatmeal containers are really ideal, but any other large enough cylinder like empty coffee containers work as well.
Step #2
You can use a wide assortment of papers and materials to offer the children to cover their containers. Many colors are the answer to having only construction paper as a covering option.
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.
Random pasting is the hallmark of most very young children, while more thoughtful deliberation is what characterizes the older kids.
Before the glue is even dried you can start covering up the tops of the drums.
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. (this make it look more realistic)
Dowels, sticks or even eating utensils can be used for making music with 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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