End of Year Toddler Craft - Calendar Cut up Artwork
Today my almost 2 and a half year old son, Eli, and I sat
down for craft time with our old 2013 calendar, two pair of scissors, and a
glue stick. This would probably work
with any calendar, but we had a calendar with Bible verses for each month and
in our Christian house this was a good activity to teach my son more about the
season we will soon be celebrating – Christmas.
First, I let him flip through the calendar and we picked his
two favorite pictures: a light house on a ice covered cape, and a wheat field reminiscent
of Kansas. I cut those two images out as
our backgrounds. Then, while he
practiced cutting on a page that would become scrap paper, I began cutting the
Bible verses from each month and reading the verses aloud to Eli.
Once all the verses were cut, I would hold the verse, he
would hold the open glue stick, and I would help him glue the back of the
verse, ask him where he wanted it to go, he would point to a spot on one of the
backgrounds, I’d place it there, and he’d pat it down. After each verse was glued in place, I’d read
it. Then we’d repeat. He really enjoyed the making the project and
using the glue sticks. If he were older,
he probably could have done all the cutting himself, but as it was it was fun
and not frustrating for my son’s budding skills and gave us a chance to talk
about Jesus preparing for the upcoming holiday season.
Once we had our two backgrounds near complete, we had dad
take pictures so Eli would feel special and appreciated in his artistic
efforts, then we picked a place on his craft wall, and hung the pictures
together. To top off the craft session,
I grabbed a puppet who commenced to ask Eli questions about his craft and let
Eli ‘show off’ his artwork to ‘someone’ besides me. Overall a pretty easy craft for a parent and
young child that had good results, made use of an old calendar, and in this
case helped our family focus a little more on the meaning of the season with
Christmas – Jesus Christ.
First, I let him flip through the calendar and we picked his
two favorite pictures: a light house on a ice covered cape, and a wheat field reminiscent
of Kansas. I cut those two images out as
our backgrounds. Then, while he
practiced cutting on a page that would become scrap paper, I began cutting the
Bible verses from each month and reading the verses aloud to Eli.
Once all the verses were cut, I would hold the verse, he
would hold the open glue stick, and I would help him glue the back of the
verse, ask him where he wanted it to go, he would point to a spot on one of the
backgrounds, I’d place it there, and he’d pat it down. After each verse was glued in place, I’d read
it. Then we’d repeat. He really enjoyed the making the project and
using the glue sticks. If he were older,
he probably could have done all the cutting himself, but as it was it was fun
and not frustrating for my son’s budding skills and gave us a chance to talk
about Jesus preparing for the upcoming holiday season.
Once we had our two backgrounds near complete, we had dad
take pictures so Eli would feel special and appreciated in his artistic
efforts, then we picked a place on his craft wall, and hung the pictures
together. To top off the craft session,
I grabbed a puppet who commenced to ask Eli questions about his craft and let
Eli ‘show off’ his artwork to ‘someone’ besides me. Overall a pretty easy craft for a parent and
young child that had good results, made use of an old calendar, and in this
case helped our family focus a little more on the meaning of the season with
Christmas – Jesus Christ.
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