Arts and Crafts Activities for Preschool Children

Creating crafts helps children with creative development, visual spatial development, fine motor skills and concentration, and also allows them use their imagination. There are many arts and crafts activities that preschoolers can do. An adult needs to help with some crafts. 

A summer arts and crafts activity for preschoolers is called paper plate sunflowers. Help your child glue strips of yellow tissue paper around the edge of a paper plate. Glue sunflowers with rolled up green tissue paper. For a fall craft, use markers or to make a face on a pumpkin or draw facial feature features on paper, cut them out and glue on the pumpkin. Add colorful hats and scarves to the pumpkin.

In the spring preschoolers can make yarn rainbows. Shape different colored yards into an arc or half circle and put on white paper. Cover with glue put on white paper. In the winter preschoolers can make snowflakes using 3 Q-tips cut in half for each snow flake. Squeeze some glue in the middle of aluminum foil. Help your child arrange 6 Q-tip halves coming out of the glue. Let dry and remove from foil. Add a string and hang in the window.

Egg carton flowers are an easy craft for preschoolers. Cut an egg carton into sections for your preschooler to paint using different colors. Poke a pipe cleaner through the bottom of each section to make a stem. Cut leaf shapes out of green construction paper and glue onto pipe cleaners. Another easy craft is making hats Kids can use markers, stickers or crayons to decorate construction paper. Fold the paper into a cone shape and tape or staple the overlapping edge. The bottom can be made even by cutting it. Use staples to attach elastic thread to the sides for straps.