Let’s talk about Arts & Crafts! There are so many benefits to including arts and crafts into your homeschool routine (& it counts as learning just as Art class in traditional school counts 😉)
Benefit #1: Helps Fine Motor Skills
Benefit #2: Improve Hand-Eye Coordination
Benefit #3: Increased Dexterity
Benefit #4: Encourages creativity and Self Expression (especially with emotions they may be feeling)
Benefit #5: Helps Improve Problem Solving Skills
Benefit #6: Improves Memory
Benefit #7: Improves a Child’s Decision-Making Skills
Benefit #8: Helps with Stress (crafts can be very relaxing)
Benefit #9: Helps with Self Esteem
Benefit #10: You are Making Memories Together
Some ideas for including art into your homeschool routine:
- Work on scissor skills and cut snowflakes out of colored construction paper.
- You can buy some clothes pins or popsicle sticks from the dollar store, paint them, then hot glue them together to create your own snowflakes, or ornaments.
- Knit a blanket
- Paint on a canvas
- Learn to crochet snowflakes using YouTube tutorials.
- Origami
- Sew a simple pillow
- String art
- Make paper flower
- Homemade bird houses
- Cookie cutter bird feeders
- Stain glass art
- Tie dye items
- No sew pillow or blanket
- Make a homemade dream catcher
- Grab a diamond art kit or paint by numbers kit
- Make art challenges such as only using items found in natural
- Make a bird perch using sticks
- Make clothes for dolls
- Create a paper Mache lantern
- Have a party coming up? Try making decorations yourself
- Create coasters
- Make homemade cards to mail to family and friends
- In the Spring, paint planters to use for herbs and flowers
- Make handmade jewelry
- Make candles
- Grab some air-dry clay and create something
- Try felting
- Make some homemade paper
- Find a tutorial on Embroidery
- Make a wreath
- Explore painting with watercolors
- Paint rocks to hide around your neighborhood
