Four Tips for Creating a Kids' Craft Space
I was woken up this morning by my three year old using me as a shelf for his pipe cleaner collection. Right now, he mostly uses the pipe cleaners to make letter shapes and simple animals, like fish, but he's getting more advanced. And messier.
Crafts have been hot here at our house for the past couple of months and I am amazed - AMAZED - at the amount of stuff generated by one crafty toddler. We've got pipe cleaners and scissors and stickers and papers of every color and weight.
Early on, we identified a table in the basement as our son's "craft spot," but without any special fanfare around the table, crafts quickly spread across the entire house. It's time, now, to take the house back.
The first step of that is to create a truly dedicated spot for crafting. To do that, I'll be following these four tips:
Crafts have been hot here at our house for the past couple of months and I am amazed - AMAZED - at the amount of stuff generated by one crafty toddler. We've got pipe cleaners and scissors and stickers and papers of every color and weight.
Early on, we identified a table in the basement as our son's "craft spot," but without any special fanfare around the table, crafts quickly spread across the entire house. It's time, now, to take the house back.
The first step of that is to create a truly dedicated spot for crafting. To do that, I'll be following these four tips:
These clipboards, in a grownup studio, would be a great way to display the enormous amounts of artwork kids generate.
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