We use heaps of household stuff - sponges, patty pans, cotton balls, left over wrapping paper, pasta, rice (colour them with food colouring). Also have gone for walks to collect things like leaves/flowers, sand, rocks whatever they can get their hands on.
A trawl through the Reject and $2 shops is always fun, also Spotlight and Lincraft too.
Yep, $2 shops are great. When DD was the same age, we would take her downstairs where she had a little kids table and she would have so much fun doing her art and craft. Those little foam shapes were great. I think we got a HUGE pack of them off ebay?
Some cheap glue, watered down a smidge if you want, and some cheap brushes from the $2 shop, to stick the foam shapes on paper.
cheap art paint was a good one, and as she got older, she was allowed to sprinkle glitter around as well.
We would just buy some printer paper and it was kept aside for DD to play with. Though I did see some butchers paper on a roll just recently??
A large ice cream tub had different pencils, crayons etc...
Packets of feathers and other decorations from the cheap shop too.
Flowers, leaves from the garden, and even some dirt a couple of times lol..
ooh, almost forgot...an old plastic lid, ice creamor yoghurt etc, and wrap it in clingwrap to put your paint/glue on there. That way, when you are finished with it, you scoop any leftovers back in to the container, and just unwrap the lid and throw the clingwrap away..
Often with DD I just give her some glue and stuff to stick on paper and she loves it.
We go outside collect leaves, whatever stick them on
Go thru junk mail and let her pick out stuff to cut out and she sticks them on.
Paint, messy, but she loves
and simple coloring always seems to be enjoyed.
Also recycling stuff comes in handy we made a robot one day out of boxes and egg cartons and she used glitter pens to decorate.
This is something I've been begining to think about...DD enjoys the craft at playgroup, although still thinks glue is the same as paint! But I think she's slowly getting the idea.
Anyway, I saw stuff in Neds yesterday - they have heaps of craft things ( and I've just thought, why didn't I look in there for paint rather than buying the exxy crayola stuff in target )
Keep junk mail for cutting things from, any packaging etc.
The big roll of butchers paper someone mentioned is about $10 in Ikea.
Playgroup had a nifty idea for sand/glitter - put it in a spice container - that way they can skake it onto the glue. THey also did the sand pics in a drawer-type thing - that way, any excess sand/glitter could be poured back into the shaker (and with DD there was heaps of excess - she would dab a 5cent piece of glue on the paper then pour the WHOLE jar onto it! )
Neds also do some great boxes for about $3 - I just bought one to keep craft stuff in for DD.
The Playschool website has fantastic imformation for making the stuff they make on the show. DS and I recently made a car from the instructions on the website and he absolutely loves it. Next project is a rocket ship
We brought a craft box from Kmart.
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