Projects for Preschoolers

activities, crafts, games and other fun projects for preschool aged children

Pretty Butterfly Made with a Sandwich Bag

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Add a touch of spring with this pretty craft project, Butterfly Made with a Sandwich Bag. You can use any kind of material that you can fit into the bag. Each butterfly craft can be different, fun and unique. Add glitter, tissue paper, fabric and paper scraps. Whatever makes you happy, just have fun making these adorable butterflies with your preschooler.

Make a sandwich bag butterfly
Make a sandwich bag butterfly

Materials you need:

  • Sandwich bags – zipper closing works best
  • Chenille stems (pipe cleaners)
  • Fabric and paper scraps

 

How to make your own pretty sandwich bag butterfly:

  1. Fill the sandwich bag with all kinds of tissue paper or fabric. Materials that let light in work best if you want your butterfly to “glow” in the sunlight.
  2. Once you have the bag filled nicely, seal it. If you are using non zipper bags, use a piece of clear packing tape to make sure the bag is sealed shut.
  3. Pinch the bag in the middle and wrap a pip cleaner around it. Twist the pipe cleaner and then separate the ends to make antennas.
Make a butterfly with paper scraps and a sandwich bag
Make a butterfly with paper scraps and a sandwich bag

 

You can add a piece of yarn or ribbon to your butterfly to hang it if you’d like. To add a little extra sparkle, add glitter inside the bag and use a glittery chenille stem. In this photo we used tulle in the bag, the fabric used to make princess tutus. Use bigger bags to make larger butterflies, just make sure to fill them enough to create a kind of puffy butterfly.

Have fun!

Exploring Color with Kiwi Crate

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We just got our hands on our first Kiwi Crate box and we love love love it! I’ve heard a ton of great things about this monthly craft kit program and wanted to check it out for myself. I couldn’t be happier, it’s a fantastic product with tons of fun just waiting to happen. Today I want to just right into the create fun for the Exploring Color box we played with.

Fun color activity box from Kiwi Crate
Fun color activity box from Kiwi Crate

 

The kit comes with 2 different color activities. We started with a fun spinning top activity, I think your preschooler will love this too. The kit came with everything we needed, markers, paper and wooden spinning tops. Have you tried this? Add different colors to the top of a spinning top and when you spin the top, the colors visually combine and create new colors. It’s so neat!! Even my teen jumped in to color one of the disks!

Get Creative with Kiwi Crate and Color!

We loved exploring with the fun blue eye glasses. Try coloring with a yellow marker while looking through blue lenses, pretty cool!

Coloring with blue glasses
Coloring with blue glasses

 

Color the top of a spinning top and see the colors combine
Color the top of a spinning top and see the colors combine

 

Kiwi Crate colors spinning top
Kiwi Crate colors spinning top

 

More color fun with Kiwi Crate
More color fun with Kiwi Crate

 

Love these glasses
Love these glasses

 

We had so much fun with this color kit and that’s only half of what was inside. I’ll share more with you when we work on the other activities. You can find tons of other fun DIY Craft Ideas you can create with your preschooler on the Kiwi Crate website. Check them out, read more about what they offer. I’d love to hear what you think and if you already have your own Kiwi Crate subscription. Happy Creating!

Creativity kits for kids!

Make a No Sew Fabric Bracelet for July 4th

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Get patriotic with your preschooler and make a fun fabric bracelet. Today I am participating in the I Love the USA blog hop along with 20+ other designers and a list of awesome craft product manufacturers. I was asked to come up with a project using adorable fabric designed by my friend Laura Kelly. I was also given a craft box full of goodies to try to use or incorporate somehow. Usually I’d make something for my kids, but in this case, I thought it would be fun to come up with a project that would be more hands on with your preschooler.  This fabric is available through Joann Stores. Read on to find out how you can enter to win a giant box of craft goodies!

No-sew patriotic bracelet
No-sew patriotic bracelet

Materials:

  • Fabric
  • Phoomph – no sew fabric crafting material
  • Scissors – I used Fiskars pinking sheers

Instructions to make your patriotic fabric bracelet

  1. Measure your child’s wrist size by wrapping fabric or Phoomph around their straight hand. Cut to size, but leave a little extra for trimming. This will allow the bracelet to be sized to fit over their hand without requiring a connector.
  2. Cut two squares out of Phoomph too.
  3. Cut out the characters and patterns you want to use from the fabric.
  4. Using 1 square of Phoomph, peel away the adhesive backing. Place one piece of fabric on the adhesive. Rub smooth.
  5. Repeat with second square of fabric.
  6. Cut matching circles from the squares. I used Pinking shears but regular fabric scissors will work too.
  7. Repeat again with long wrist pieces but covering both sides with fabric. Trim to size.
  8. Remove second adhesive backing from 1 of the circles. Place end of wrist piece in center of circle adhesive. Bend wrist piece around and place other end in center of adhesive. Remove adhesive backing on second circle and place on top of end pieces and 1st circle. Press to securely adhere circles together.
  9. Your preschooler can help place fabric and press in place.

Please note: Because Phoomph is very thick, it can be difficult for kids to cut and does require sharp scissors, please have an adult cut these steps.

 

Measuer wrist and hand size
Measuer wrist and hand size

 

Cut out fabric and phoomph pieces
Cut out fabric and phoomph pieces

 

Peel adhesive backing
Peel adhesive backing

 

Apply fabric
Apply fabric

 

Press to smooth and ensure adhering
Press to smooth and ensure adhering

 

Trim fabric and Phoomph to size
Trim fabric and Phoomph to size

 

Attach wrist band to center art
Attach wrist band to center art

 

Press to seal and finish
Press to seal and finish

 

 

Finished patriotic no-sew bracelet
Finished patriotic no-sew bracelet

 

Have fun with it!


Special thanks to all the product participants in this event:

General Fabrics, Plaid, Fiskars, Coats and Clark,
Buttons Galore and More, PLUS Joann and Cre8Time!

 

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Make a Cardboard Tube Bowling Game with Duck Tape

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The next time you think of throwing away your empty cardboard tubes, think about saving them to make this super fun cardboard tube bowling game. You can decorate the tubes however you like. Encourage your preschooler to knock the “pins” down by rolling a small ball toward the tubes. Because they are cardboard, the pins will fall over pretty easily so your preschooler is sure to succeed. This is a great game to practice hand eye coordination, learning to roll a ball and determination (you have to knock down more pins than your opponent to win).

Make a mini bowling set with cardboard tubes and Duck tape
Make a mini bowling set with cardboard tubes and Duck tape

 

To make this bowling set, you need:

  • Cardboard tubes – either toilet tissue rolls or paper towel rolls that you cut in half
  • Patterned Duck Tape
  • Twine
  • Paper
Materials you need to make a cardboard tube bowling set
Materials you need to make a cardboard tube bowling set

To make the bowling pins:

  1. Wrap the cardboard tube with Duck Tape.
  2. Wrap the center of the cardboard tube with twine to cover the cardboard gap – or cover with tape.

 

Wrap tube with Duck tape
Wrap tube with Duck tape

 

Wrap other end with Duck Tape
Wrap other end with Duck Tape

 

Wrap center with twine
Wrap center with twine

 

To make the bowling ball:

  1. Scrunch up a piece of paper into a ball shape.
  2. Wrap the paper with a piece of Duck tape.
  3. Continue wrapping the paper with tape until you have a ball shape and are happy with how it has formed.
Make a paper ball and wrap with Duck tape
Make a paper ball and wrap with Duck tape

 

Create a round ball with the paper and Duck Tape
Create a round ball with the paper and Duck Tape

 

Play a fun game of bowling with your preschooler
Play a fun game of bowling with your preschooler

When I made this cardboard tube bowling set, I also added a matching game element. Each “pin” had twine wrapped around the center. The color of the twine matches where the tube should be placed with the bowling pin layout. Three pins have orange twine, 2 have green twine and 2 has both. You and your preschooler can practice matching the twine colors too.

Plastic Easter Eggs and Cute Tape

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I found the cutest mini patterned tape rolls at Michael’s over the weekend and we decided to decorate our plastic Easter eggs with them. The tape comes in packs of 6 in a few different sets. So super cute! We mixed and matched the patterns and played with paper and other fun project ideas. You can use this tape to wrap plastic Easter eggs with your preschooler. Sometimes tape is difficult for little hands to cut, but lots of fun to stick. Think about cutting smaller pieces to place on the eggs as dots or even cover the Easter eggs completely. We found that some of our eggs were easier to decorate with the tape when we opened the egg. If you plan to fill the eggs with treats, make sure not to stick the tape over the seam.

Decorating plastic Easter eggs with tape
Decorating plastic Easter eggs with tape

 

This tape is in mini dispensers and is a plastic tape – similar to standard transparent scotch tape. You can also try this with washi tape, however, washi tape tends to be less sticky, so might not adhere to the plastic eggs as well. You could also try masking tape that you draw on with Sharpie markers (preschoolers and permanent markers is tricky, be aware of accidental permanent marks on surfaces other than tape).

 

Mini decorative tape dispensers
Mini decorative tape dispensers

 

Finished plastic egg decorating with fun tape
Finished plastic egg decorating with fun tape

 

Open egg for easier tape decorating
Open egg for easier tape decorating

 

I’d love to hear what fun you have with pretty tape and plastic Easter eggs!

 

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