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I am looking for cheap craft ideas. Crafts that 2 yr olds can manage. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I think most of my crafts are very budget friendly, depending on what you already own
I have some on here in the arts and crafts and of course on my fb page (www.facebook.com/MrsSteinelsHouse)
Paint- Buy the bottles of tempra. We have been painting on cardboard boxes now for weeks.
Collages- I save all of my odds and ends and put it into my collage bucket. If you start saving regularly it quickly adds up. It can be anything. Scraps of cardboard, tissue paper from gifts, wrapping paper, little bits of ribbon, yarn etc. Ask scrapbooking friends to save their trash I cut items up into smaller pieces. For little ones I smear glue all over a piece of construction paper or paper plate and let them place items on there.
Give me a theme and I can give you a craft
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popsicle sticks. We made very cute little flags yesturday and I bought the sticks at Dollar Tree for $1!happyface The paint of course costs more but, you get a lot of uses out of it. My kids just love to paint. Check out pinterest, this is where most of my ideas come from. I only do them for the holidays though. They do paint more often! If you have a Dollar Tree around you go there for supplies!!Comment
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With just these 3 items you can do quite a bit:
Colored tissue paper
Construction or just white paper or cardboard
Glue
We have done this with my 2-4 yo group and it is a huge hit! I swear they can sit for hours and do this:
Show them how to tear little pieces of tissue paper and roll or crush them up into little balls. Then use the glue to glue the little tissue papers on to another paper. Something about giving kids permission to tear up paper is so awesome to them!!
Variations on this: you can cut out different shapes of paper to glue the tissue paper balls on to like if you do a shape of the week they can glue the tissue balls on to that shape.
If you do a letter or number of the week you can draw a large letter or number onto the paper and instruct them to only glue the little tissue balls on the lines.
You can make paper wreaths by cutting out doughnut shaped paper or cardboard and having the kids glue the tissue paper balls on that.
Plus this is a great small motor skills activity.
Personally though I like open ended arts and crafts so my favorite thing to do is put out a ton of different items (you can get a lot from the dollar store like paper, cotton balls, foam stickers and shapes, fake silk flower petals etc.) and just let the kids do what they want with it all
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