Indonesia
Craft Courses for Kids. Why Not?
Superparents, we all know the important of handicraft for children. The benefits including:
1 . Trained hand to eye coordination nerve, problem solving skills, and develop children’s imagination. Children also learn to follow instructions, then the importance of doing something in a frame of mind.
2 . Through crafts , children who can not sit still train the ability to focus their concentration, and be able to channel their energy in a constructive way.
3 . Exercising patience. Children learn in a way that doing a job in a hurry do not always get the desired results .
4 . Establishing confidence, when children see that they are able to create something, so they will foster success in self.
Seeing this trend, some courses center offer special programs for children with various specialty. The following options and inspiration for you.
Paint
The children can freely express their artistic abilities through painting. In addition to cultivate their creative thinking proces , children also learn about the dimensions, space and size. Painting also test their analytical thinking skills. In addition, play with paint splashing, spilling and sweeping acrylic on blank canvas is a very fun job for them. Thus, although a bit messy, let them do what they do is investing through their artwork. Facilite them with complete equipment, such as paint, brushes, rollers, glitter, stickers, and color pencils and pens.
Ceramics and Pottery for kids
It is amazing to see what can be made from a lump of clay. ‘Throwing clay pots or form clay on a potter’s wheel was a fun activity, a bit noisy and messy, but challenging for children. After shaping the clay with a basic pattern, and when the clay dries a bit, the kids can paint pottery pieces. This work is also exciting, soothing and make the children feel relaxed, because they are completely absorbed in their work decoration that uses a lot of concentration and creativity. After that, your child artwork is ready to be painted, displayed and collected.
Cooking and Baking
Learn to cook is very good for children to practice and explore their flavors and tastes with different materials and media. Starting from simple jobs, such as stirring and mixing cookie dough, decorate cake with different colored icing, or make sweet sugar ball. As they grow older, you can introduce more complex recipes and let them have their own role in the kitchen.
Bathroom Craft Products
It has recently been increased interest in creating body care products such as hand-made bath salts, fragrance and lip balm. Many craft bussiness directed to this area and offer another way to pamper parents and children that they can get added value, which is creativity with ingredients and experiment with a variety of scents and colors.
Making Jewelry
Children can make their own jewelry. To encourage this creative process a lot of craft shops specialized in selling a wide variety of beads in various shapes, sizes and colors. You can buy a set of tools to create necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings, and other jewelry are preferred according to the age and ability of the child.
Sewing, knitting and needle work
Sewing, knitting, embroidery and other work involving fabric and thread will pose a challenge that is fun and enjoyable. Children of primary school age upwards can be driven interest and talent in the field of fashion by mixing and match decorative applications on t – shirts, knit scarf, or sew beads on favorite hat or bag. Children can also learn basic sewing techniques taught in simple places to learn to sew.
Batik
This is something that attracted many children and parents at this time. Introducing batik work on children will exercise creativity and fosters much love for local craft and culture of the indigenous peoples in Indonesia.
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