Toddler CraftsAre Easier Than You Think!
This section has lots of ideas for toddler crafts that are easy to enjoy with your child. Easy Crafts for Young Children Suggestions to simplify creative activities. Thereare lots of great little tricks to help busy parents and carers spend less time preparing and more time enjoying crafts. Christmas Crafts 'Tis the season to be crafty! Not just a page, but a whole section with original ideas: Christmas cards, homemade presents, Santa mask...money-saving yet attractive projects. Halloween Craft Ideas How to make a flying bat, Halloween mask, bookmark and more - simple, fun and above all gentle mini projects. Homemade Puppets Simple homemade puppets for toddlers that you can make with cheap materials. Get your child involved in decorating them, and encourage their creativity. Are you looking for
ideas for craft techniques
or alternatively
tricks to make crafts easier?
They are certainly nowhere to be seen in our house, and every craft idea you see in this section came from me.
Two Types Of CraftsCrafts for toddlers can either be free or guided. Free Crafts are when you let your toddler loose to be creative exactly as he wishes. You merely provide the materials. 
Guided Crafts are where you control what your toddler does. For example if you are creating a birthday card together, you might only let her paint with one or two colours, or provide a limited range of decorations to be glued on to a gift tag, as shown here.
Which is better - free or guided crafts? - Neither. It just depends on what you want from the activity. Guided crafts have the advantage of allowing you both to create a pleasing end product that will mean alot to friends and relatives - such as a hand print calendar, or toys and pictures that your child can enjoy themself. The various pages in this section all concentrate on guided crafts - but don't forget that free crafts can be enormously enjoyable for young children. If you (like me) can't see the beauty in the inevitable dung colour that results from mixing every single colour in a box of paints - your toddler would tell you that there's just no accounting for taste!
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