I often set DS up at the kitchen table while I am cooking and stuff. I still need to be in the room otherwise paint ends up everywhere but he will usually play for quite a while. We don't tend to do the kind of crafts where things have to be stuck in the right places to make a finished object.
Playdough, we make our own with cutters rolling pins, plastic cutlery and anything else we can press into it to make patterns.
Threading cherios type cereal onto a shoelace (OK we still have more eating than threading at 3)
Painting, we have different thickness brushes, old tooth brushes, a few sponges and or course fingers. We also like to put a couple of blobs on a baking tray for the kids to mix and smear around. Sometimes we put a sheet of paper on top to make a print. Often we don't bother.
Glueing, I used to keep a small box of shapes ready cut out to hand out with a glue stick. Now DS prefers to cut his own shapes so I keep old wrapping paper and junk mail with pictures I think he will like. This is probably his favourite activity.
In terms of making things we've decorated containers with a plastic lid and cut a slot in the lid to make a money box, decorated a cereal box to keep all the artwork in.
Playdough, we make our own with cutters rolling pins, plastic cutlery and anything else we can press into it to make patterns.
Threading cherios type cereal onto a shoelace (OK we still have more eating than threading at 3)
Painting, we have different thickness brushes, old tooth brushes, a few sponges and or course fingers. We also like to put a couple of blobs on a baking tray for the kids to mix and smear around. Sometimes we put a sheet of paper on top to make a print. Often we don't bother.
Glueing, I used to keep a small box of shapes ready cut out to hand out with a glue stick. Now DS prefers to cut his own shapes so I keep old wrapping paper and junk mail with pictures I think he will like. This is probably his favourite activity.
In terms of making things we've decorated containers with a plastic lid and cut a slot in the lid to make a money box, decorated a cereal box to keep all the artwork in.
