12 ideas for manual activities to do with children
It is not always easy to take care of children during holidays or weekends. So we give you some ideas to distract: 12 manual activities, creative, simple and fun to achieve, and accessible to all ages.
A car circuit
Create with your children a circuit for car on the ground with adhesive tape of different colors: gray, blue, red, black, white, etc. You can draw on the ground, roads, parking spaces and roundabouts. You can also create bridges and stepping stones with cardboard.
An Indian tipi
The tipi is the perfect place to tell the evening story. By using wooden cleats, a white fabric,rope ,sewing thread and acrylic paint , you can easily make an Indian tipi with your children. With the paint, create beautiful patterns on the fabric together like lines or triangles of coral or light gray colors.
A fairy garden
In a flower pot large enough , realize a small fairy garden with your children. For that, build a small wooden house that you will add to the pot. You can also paint it together. Then choose a few plants that will serve as shrubs and trees around the house. Add some colored pebbles in front of the house to draw a path. Finally, if you find small birds or small butterflies , add them here and there in the plants.
An artistic collage
Here is a simple and creative art project for kids of all ages. For this, you will need a sheet of A3 paper , watercolor painting , comics or old picture books , craft glue , scissors and a white frame . Start by painting a background of different pastel colors on the large sheet of paper. Then cut out and paste the images on the sheet artistically. Add this creation to your frame.
A boat race
For this race, you will need a gutter , which is easily found in the DIY department, two bars of soap , a toothpick , a little fabric of two different colors , scissors and a glue gun . Cut out a small triangle in each fabric that you will stick on the toothpick to form a flag. Plant the flag in the middle of each bar of soap to form small boats. Install your gutter in the lawn and put the garden hose at one end of the gutter. The race can begin!
A wooden swing
What memorable memories to swing in the void. To make a comfortable and safe wooden swing for your blond heads, you will need a hardwood board , a saw , a drill , a wooddrill , a wooddrill and a fairly thick rope of about 10 meters. For the seat, cut two pieces of wood that you will come to fix with cleats. With a wood wick, drill the holes on each side to insert the rope. There is only to hang in the tree.
Duck fishing
For this duck fishing, you will need two jars of yogurt of different colors, wire , scissors , a glue gun , string , cardboard and a small wooden handle . With the cardboard sheets, cut a base to cover the yoghurt pot, two small legs, a triangle for the nose, two small wings to add on the pot. With a screwdriver, pierce the bottom of the yoghurt pot. Cut 20 cm of wire around to create the hook of the fishing rod and insert it into the hole you have just drilled. For the fishing rod, take the string and hang it around the little wooden stick. Create a small hook with a small piece of wire that you can stick to the end of the fishing rod.
Little colorful elves
To create these little elves, take pine cones picked up during a walk in the forest, felt , bells , wooden balls , a black felt and a glue gun . Stick one end of the pine cone, which represents the body of the goblin, to the wooden ball that will form his head. Cut out two small oval shapes to stick under the pine cone as shoes. Then cut out two small shapes of mittens to stick to each side of the pine cone and a strip of felt rolled up around the elf's neck for the scarf. For the hat, cut out a small triangle shape and then glue two points of the triangle to form a hat. Attach the small bell at the top of the hat and stick all on the wooden ball. Finally draw the eyes and the nose by making three points to form the elf's head.
A mosaic frame
Using mosaic of glass, stone and different colors, make with your children a fish in an aquarium, a balloon or a bee that you can then hang in his room. You will need mosaics , a polystyrene plate , silicone glue to fix the mosaics and plaster to fill the gap between the mosaics.
The catapult
Nothing is easier for lovers of castles than to create your own catapult. You can make one from Eskimo sticks , a clothespin , a cork , a water bottle cap , acrylic paint and a hot glue gun . Simply create a pedestal by aligning 5 sticks, then adding on each side a rod perpendicular. Glue another set of five sticks parallel to the first layer and over the sticks across. Take the clothespin and stick on a cork. Then stick the end of a stick on the cork to form the catapult's arm. Then, stick a bottle of water bottle to the end of the stick, it is here that we will put ammunition such as beans. Now glue the clothespin onto the rod holder you have created. You can now paint your creation. Use the clothespin to launch your projectiles. To attack !
A custom t-shirt
Let your kids develop their creativity by making a custom t-shirt. For that, take a white t-shirt , paint for fabric of different colors and tampons . Let them dab their t-shirts on all sides.
Art on the walls
Using wallpaper of different colors and patterns , create a unique world with your kids in their room. Think together about what you can draw as a landscape like a tree with multicolored leaves on which owls or fairy swaying on flowers sway.