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I'm hosting a party for a bunch of 2-year-olds (and their moms)
a week or two before Christmas. I'd like to give the kids an
opportunity to make some tree ornaments or paper decorations. Suggestions? Salt dough that the kids can paint and bake?
Chains made of colored paper? What else? |
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-I helped my older kids' school with a salt dough project, and
it took many hours for the dough to dry sufficiently in the
oven before it could be painted. Thicker pieces dried overnight (out of the oven) as well, and still weren't fully dry. So....
that may not be the best 2yo party project. -we made glitter pinecones at the Richie McFarland Center (early
intervention, under 3s) last year. you just need glue,
pinecones, a box, string & glitter. tie a string to each
pinecone. let the kids drizzle glue on the cone, put cone in box & sprinkle glitter on the glue. if the glue isn't dry before
they go home, place the cone in a ziplock snack size bag.
IME 2.5 year olds like gluesticks, so maybe some precut shapes (trees, stars, snowflakes) that they can stick to folded
construction paper to make cards. my 3 year old *loves* paper
punch shapes to glue down or toss like confetti. most of my
punches are leaf shapes or halloween, but there are snowflakes,
snowmen, angels, etc. -You could have the dough made ahead of time and give
each child a manageable-sized ball that their mothers could help them roll,
cut out, and decorate. Decorating any kind of cookie is fun. Of course, for these ideas, you have
the sugar component, which some parents prefer to steer away from. Pine-cone bird feeders? Spread peanut butter on the pine cones and roll them
in bird seed, tie on a string, etc. Styrofoam-ball snowmen with various things they could glue on to decorate.
Works best if you cut the balls in half and paste them to paper and make a
winter scene--it's hard to keep the balls together otherwise. (This one
would work well if there are some people who don't do Christmas.) |
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