Rainbow Creations - Art and Craft for Children - Blog

Children develop so quickly, progress being seen month to month. All children are different and develop at different rates but each child follows the same path. At the age of 3 years children's fine motor skills, concentration, patience and hand and eye coordination are all beginning to increase rapidly and by the time they have reached 7 years old their skills will have very much matured. Art and craft activities with children at this age need to be simple and fun. But, firstly what might you expect from a child of this age? As a guide only : Children aged 3 years can -Begin to cut paper with scissors -Draw a person with a head face and limbs (no body) -Control a pencil with a tripod grasp -Can thread large beads on a lace Children of 4 years old can -Thread smaller beads with large holes -Draw people with a head, body, arms, legs and fingers. -Can recognise and name a range of colours -Can write own name What  you can provide- age 3-4 years :  chubby crayons, chun

Once children are old enough, knitting is a great pastime for them to learn. By teaching your child to knit you are giving them the choice, throughout their life, of a hobby which can be picked up again at any time to give pleasure, achievement and creativity. Many children learn, but don't knit again for several years. However, when the time is right, or there is space in their life they may be thankful for having acquired the skill when younger. Children might wonder what knitting is. Knitting is simply using yarn and two needles to create a piece of fabric. The fabric is created by working along the stitches on the row, then the needles are turned and the stitches on the row are each knitted again. As the procedure is repeated, the knitting hanging from the needles grows in length. These days, knitting is a hobby. Children might be interested to know that knitting was originally used to create clothing and that today most of their own clothes are produced by machines. By k