Kids Craft Corners
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Posted by Jenn Greenleaf Aug 10, 2009 |
I just wrote a piece for my column over at Examiner.com, Creating Educational Craft Corners, and immediately I thought of my suite101.com topic (Mixed Media Arts). Though I (and I’m sure my children, as well) would love to have a finished designated space for my children to create their crafts in, they’ve been happy using their portable creative stations since 2006 (they were a Christmas gifts).
Their creative stations consist of:
- A snack tray: these snack trays are the kids that have two compartments on one side, and one large compartment on the other.
- Small round compartment: this holds all their scissors, glue sticks, pencils, and other “straight up and down” materials they like to use.
- Small compartment: this holds small items like rubber stamps, notepads, small packages of stickers, pencils sharpeners, boxes of crayons, and things like that.
- Large compartment: this is for larger sketch pads, pieces of construction paper, notebooks, stencils, and other larger items they like to use.
These craft stations tend to be parked right in front of the TV during movie time, or next to the kitchen floor (not really sure why – it’s kind of random if you ask me, but that’s okay). They love the idea of changing materials out from time to time. I think what the love most about these portable creative stations, though, is that all the materials found in them are only used by them. So, if they leave something half finished or don’t want to use something up too quickly, everything is everything as they’ve left it the last time they worked.
Do your kids have creative corners, or portable creative stations like mine?