Crafting & Painting with Children
For children there's nothing nicer than getting creative in everyday life to become creative themselves. They love everything about crafting: cutting, gluing and painting – and the great results after every completed project. Even as toddlers certain craft projects are suitable for your little ones. They can, when crafting and painting train and test their skills. They learn to cut with scissors and carefully consider the use of certain colors when painting. And they try out different materials and approaches to bring certain figures or ideas to life.
Crafting, painting, having fun – more ideas
Diverse crafting fun
Colorful, simple, crazy, loving – Crafts and painting projects are simply always fun for your children and make them beam from ear to ear. They practice patience, may sometimes make mistakes and find solutions to problems. These are small challenges in creative everyday life, through which your children grow.
Crafting & painting in every season
In daycare, kindergarten and primary school, tasks and school subjects that involve a lot of crafting or painting are often among the little ones' favorites. And such projects with pencils, scissors and glue not only train your kids' creative skills. They also help them acquire a lot of knowledge about certain topics, for example the seasons.
For children, it is a great joy to show with their creations in spring, summer, autumn and winter what is so special about each season. Bright flowers in spring, a cloudless sky with lots of sunshine in summer, the colorful leaves in autumn, snow, Santa Claus & presents in winter – every few months they show their crafts and pictures, what they know about the respective season. You can find suitable inspiration and craft tips for this on our pages. Occasions to craft and paint with children
Throughout the year there are numerous lovely occasions for children to craft and paint. They like to give something they made themselves to their parents, friends or teachers. Be it for a birthday, Easter, Christmas, Mother's or Father's Day or as a small gift just because. In our HABA online magazine you will find numerous instructions and ideas to craft for celebrations and holidays with children.
Image credits
Mother and a little girl shaping clay together © prostooleh - stock.adobe.com
Children hold an owl made of felt and pine cones © ISO101 - stock.adobe.com