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crafty ideas for 11-12 year old kids- pleeeeeaaaaseee helpSubmitted by motormouth on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 8:57am.
So you know i am working this day camp for kids, and it's the first year that i am doing it. And everyday we have one hour of crafts time. We have done some really cool stuff. THe most recent was celebrity masks to do celebrity interviews while we were working on question words and grammar. I don't think we can do it at school this year because we allready did some t-shirts with fabric markers but i have allready favorited the site to ¨try this at home¨ i love making t-shirts! You could do record bowls...not sure how to tie it in with your grammar lesson but you're smart, you could figure it out!
you know I always read your stuff b/c my mom was born in Asturias and my dad was born in Galicia so I am very jealous b/c I really really want to go there! lol. And if you come through catalunya on the way you can stay at my house. We've got two bedrooms with guest beds and we are totally kid friendly. if 12 year olds would think this is stupid, but the kids i nanny for (ages3-10) loooove shrinky dinks. you can buy blank sheets of the plasticky stuff so they can do their own drawings, and then you can make keychains, bracelets, whatever they want out of the shrunken drawings. although you may have been looking for suggestions that don't require spending $ on supplies.... It is so difficult to think of the ideas because you do get kind of caught up in whether they will think it is stupid or not. i completely failed to realize that you are in spain! if you go to shrinkydinks.com/ you'll find a section where you can buy the sheets of plain plastic at geotoys. the price isn't too bad, $5.00 for ten 8x10 sheets, but i don't know if they'll ship to europe. good luck if you decide to go for it-- i bet those kids have never seen shrinky dinks before and would think it was really cool! I have no idea either, but I have been thinking about this all day. I have a 12 year old, but he went out to a blueberry farm to pick berries for the day, or I would ask him for some suggestions. I thought the poi idea was awsome. Totally gonna do that with the kids here. The wise poet Rumi tells us-- but I have to say, really cool crafts! |
This has been a new hobby in our house, and pretty simply done if you want it to be!
We followed this tutorial pretty closely:
http://community.livejournal.com/craftgrrl/3674467.html
and we had great results.