Kid Crafts for Development

 Every milestone reached is extremely important in a child's life. The sense of touch, identifying textures, shapes and colors is also important. Crafts at the growing stages of a child help nurture their fine motor skills, and sensory abilities. Your kitchen, and stationary items that are mostly available in every household can be used to create these crafts, they can be made with the child, so safe many a times, and sometimes, they need strict supervision to avoid a messy house and hours of cleaning too.

Paper plates, straws, pasta, cooked and uncooked noodles, cut vegetables, food color, cotton balls, paper, pipe cleaners, non-toxic water colors, crayons, cardboards, styrofoam etc...can be used to make crafts with children. They keep them busy for hours and also improve their creativity along with developing their sensory and motor skills. You dont need to run to the store for brushes, easels and other professional art work items...just find a paper, have your child use his/her fingers, hands, toes to dab the colors, or cut cardboard into their favorite characters or animals and make funny, imaginary shapes or puppets and see how create you get in minutes....explore the ideas your brain has stored for years. The Web has so many ideas posted by many creative Parents and Teachers. This quality time with your child even acts as a stress-reliever for you, your child also loves this Together Time. Isn't it an All in One Craft time!! And that crafty item made by your child decorates your Proud-mom space for free too.

- Prathyusha Talluri