Here's a wonderful entry by Akiko on my Scribble and Smudge team.
Art activities to do with your 7 year old.
This started life as a key ring. Well that was the idea... that my daughter
had - and I simplified! Originally we
thought of attaching a disc to a chain but knowing that the artwork would
probably be short lived if attached to keys, we made it into a hanging
decoration. Take a sheet of card and cut
out discs, then decorate. We decided
that each family member would contribute, so starting from the top, daughter,
me and Dad. We then covered the discs
with sticky back plastic and punched holes so wire could be threaded through
for the circles to hang down. One point
to note – probably best to hole punch before designing, I was told off for
punching through the eagle's beak!!
Art activities to do with your 7 year old.
Half term activities
So another half term has come and gone and like most parents
I try to fill the days with interesting and varied activities! My daughter aged 7 was keen on staying in and
“doing art”, here are some activities that we occupied ourselves with. They are all low cost and simple so I hope
you will find them useful!
1.
Family tree decoration
Materials: card, wire or string, beads, pen/pencil, scissors
and hole punch
The design could include extended family members and
pictures of pets too!
Simple but effective, all you need are shop bought beads
(Tiger has nice ones that include clasps for jewellery) and thread. Often the sets come with nylon thread that
can be awkward to work with, we used special beading thread that has a coating
that allows for easy threading and is strong/non-stretchy. You can get this from most art/craft
shops. A word of warning, a blob of glue
where the knot is made on the clasp helps, otherwise the beads can pull on the
knot and unravel (speaking from experience...)
3.
Firework picture
This idea came about when we were reading a story about a
box of crayons....
All the brightly coloured crayons are having fun drawing but
then they start scribbling all over each other...the black crayon saves the day
and restores peace by covering over the colours and, aided by a friendly
mechanical pencil makes a beautiful picture of the night sky with
fireworks. To recreate this, all you
need is a box of crayons or pastels, use lots of different colours to cover a
sheet of paper, then cover with black crayon or pastel (pastel over crayon
seems to work best). Then take something
with a point, a skewer works well, to draw your motifs and “dig up” the colours
beneath the black. This would also work
as a snowscape – use white pastel over the coloured crayon.
Hope these are useful ideas and you have fun, we certainly
did!
Akiko
