Beginners Crafts To Boredom-Busting Craft Activities for Your Pre-Schooler

A bored pre-schooler is definitely something we want to prevent! So engage your child and get started on some fun craft projects. A very good option is Mosaic Crafts For Beginners, making use of seeds so it is not too heavy on the pocket!

Of course there are many other excellent ideas as well and here are some ideas:

Paper Plate Flowers

Bring some springtime inside with this fun project. This is also a good way to recycle old paper towel or toilet paper tubes.

Materials:

• A variety of paper plates of any size or color
• Brown, yellow and green construction paper
• Glue
• Cardboard tubes such as paper towel, wrapping paper, or toilet paper. Varying heights make a nice effect.
• Paints (if using white paper plates)

Directions:

1. Wrap the cardboard tubes in green construction paper. Glue the seam.

2. If you are using white paper plates, paint them in bright colors. Encourage your pre-schooler to paint from the center outward, like petals.

3. Cut circles from the brown and yellow construction paper in various sizes (these will be the flower centers).

4. Glue the circles onto the center of the colored or painted plates.

5. Glue the backs of the plates to the tops of the green cardboard tubes.

6. Cut out and glue green leaves to the flower "stems" if you like.

7. Set the flowers up on a sheet of green construction paper that represents grass, and make a flower field.

With a little modification, you could make a forest of trees using the same technique. Your pre-schooler can use the woods or flower field as a scenic backdrop for imaginative play.

Tissue Box Car

One of the keys to making boredom-busting crafts is to create things your kids can play with after they're made. A tissue box car is not only fun to make, it's fun to play with!

Materials:

Tissue box
One sharp pencil
Two drinking straws
Four plastic tops, such as those from 2-litres, milk jugs, etc.
Paints, construction paper, puffy paint, etc.
Hot glue

Directions:

1. Carefully remove the plastic from the tissue box opening.

2. Using the sharp pencil, the adult can punch four holes in the base of the box. These will be where the wheels go, so try to make the holes evenly spaced.

3. Poke one straw through each pair of holes, pushing it through until it comes out the other sid