i need help of craft ideas for a 19 month old

[londonrach]

Ok wrong section but you get lots of help here. I dont have a safe outdoor space and the roads and pavement look vvv icy. Therefore we are staying in. I have no art skill and dd is my first. The playgroups we go to have amazing ideas. Please mntters i need ideas of exciting things i can do with a 19 month old. Thinking others might be thinking the same. Thanks theres only so much peppa pig i can watch....😬

Pinterest?

My 18mo doesn't have great patience for craft yet, he can hold a crayon and will use chalks on a chalkboard but not for long. I definitely wouldn't trust him with glue! How about cutting out some shapes that he can make a snowman with, 2 white circles, a hat and an orange triangle. It depends on what you have in really.

Make your own play doh

There’s some gloopy stuff you make with cornflour and water which is fascinating as it is solid when pushed but liquid when not under pressure.

A plastic tub or tray with rice or pasta in it and little animals or vehicles

A glue stick and a box of cut up coloured paper to do sticking - if you cut out shapes (eg a snowman!) you can make it “themed” but random works just as well)

Ive not looked at it for ages as mine are all older now but I had a Pinterest board of random stuff

pin.it/e3cnpypvzj5uvt

Edible paint. I.e yoghurt, it's fun, easy to clean and they can eat it safely

potato print with poster paint, cut the potato in half and carve simple shapes. you can take a large piece of paper, put it on a plastic tray,put blobs of paint, cover it with plastic wrap, tape the lot to the tray. then your DD can push the paint around with her hands, without getting messy.

You can also make some coloured spaghetti which is fun, boil spag in less water than usual and add lots of food colouring to the water. Boil 10 minutes, cool down, voila. You can make home-made playdoh just google it it's really easy to make.

Find a large cardboard box and give her wax crayons and sit her in the box with the crayons.

Sandwich bags filled with paint and sealed that he can squish

Bake some biscuits. Child gets sensory stuff from mixing feeling dough etc and you both get snack time

Cornflour and water? Runny until hit then goes solid.
If you have any sticky backed plastic (shines Blue Peter badge!) you can use it as a glue sheet to stick things on rather than trying to glue stuff to a sheet of paper, then top with cling film to seal

Bowl of water to play with?

Have you got any good colouring in the house? If so, dilute with water and put different colours into lots of different containers. Let your little one play with them in the (otherwise empty) bath. Lots of fun pouring/spilling/watching the colours mix together.

Food colouring, not good.

I wouldn't bother with structured craft activities at that age. Even now at almost 3 my dd is happier to just have crayons/paints/glue and paper and just draw/stick what she wants rather than make a butterfly for example.

She also loves having a tub of water with bubbles and washing her small toys.

Home-made play dough. Keeps for ages in air tight container.
Painting penne pasta and threading on a cord for necklace.

I run a toddler craft session. We usually have a pre cut paper shape, like an animal/cake/birthday card, and appropriately coloured paper torn into bits for them to stick to it. I’ve also got pots of paper eyes and beaks. Tomorrow we are making doughnuts, so I have a paper plate with a hole in it, a circle of coloured paper the same size, and different coloured bits of paper to stick to it for sprinkles and icing. I’ve also got shoe boxes with coloured paper on them to make crates for them to put animals into. Nothing ever quite looks how I intend but that’s half the fun. Squirrels have twelve eyes and eight beaks, don’t they?

Ooh yes also the bubbles, like NameChange said.

Do you have a magazine you can cut up and they can stick pictures onto paper? At that age, sticking dried pasta shapes onto paper is also a go-er.

White paint and coloured card. Stick his finger in and make snowflakes. All over the page. Lots of talk about snow.
Definitely a bowl of water to mess in or lots of containers in the bath if your bathroom is nice and warm. Pouring from one container to another is endless fun. Add in a sieve.
Hand prints all over page. Later add a photo of him in the snow. You can tell him the story of him in the big snow as he grows and show him how small his handprints were then.
Pastry to mess with if you baking.( just to make you feel guilty if you not baking as well as crafts!!)

"Drum Kit" made from plastic pots, saucepan lids and wooden spoon
Shallow tray of flour to draw pictures in with her fingers
Lucky dip bag with different things in for her to find. Different textures etc. E.g. a flannel, a small toy, a coin, a tennis ball.