Crafts for Kindergarten Children, Preschool, Nursery School and ESL Students.
Craft Tips
Crafts are messy! As children love to make a mess make cleaning up afterwards easier by covering tables and floor with a plastic sheet. Teach the children to clean up after themselves!
Complete the craft at the children's pace rather than yours. Spread it over a number of lessons if necessary.
Glue. Avoid the tubs of glue that Japanese Kindergartens insist on using that the children stick their fingers into and spread all over the paper, desk and themselves. Instead use the blue pritstick type.
Have a completed example of any craft you intend to do to show to the children. Be really excited about it! If the children are enthused and motivated they will concentrate on getting the craft done. Making one yourself in advance helps you when it comes to modelling too.
Laminate anything you are modelling with so you can use it again next year.
Music: Play soothing back ground music if you wish them to concentrate. Songs with lyrics that relate to the craft are also recommended.
Costs / Preparation Time
Making and preparing crafts takes time and money and I'm not a fan of wasting either so... all crafts fit efficiently on A4 paper, use all the available paper space and can easily be printed or copied clearly. As I frequently prepare hundreds of these at a time they can all be cut out quickly using a guillotine with no tedious cutting out with scissors.