So at my son's daycare they have done some crafty things with him, but I also want to do some with him so that I can have stuff that we did together as a family. Any ideas?? Yes I mean 5 months.....
Thank you to everybody that took me seriously. I decided to make a hand print every month starting now till he's a year old. (=
first, did you mean 5 year old? I am guessing you did.
I bought a white tablecloth at a garage sale and we finger painted it. Handprints, drawings with fabric paints. We did it with a holiday theme.
ROFL - good luck with that!
Oh, and Welcome to Mamapedia. Heck of a first question!
(Eta: oh! We've done washable paints on paper in an empty bathtub too! Easy clean-up!)
I am guessing you DID mean 5month old.
If so, here are a few things we've done.
I hold the lil ones on my lap or sit them in high chair and let them fingerpaint. You can leave it as is or cut into cute shapes and glue on another paper.
Paint their foot and make footprint craft.
Handprint crafts are my fav because you can see how they've grown. Google "handprint craft" or "footprint craft" for some ideas. A handprint can be made into a turkey, santa's face, butterfly, tree top, etc.
you do realize that when a 5 month old "makes a craft" at daycare that it is really the daycare worker that makes the craft?
really??
at that age i was too busy enjoying him and taking thousands of pictures.
you have his entire lifetime to "do stuff together as a family".
i confess, i'm not getting it. really not trying to be rude. i've just never heard of such a thing and see zero reason for it.
I would hate to see your bins of all the crafts from 5 months to 8 yrs old, you may need to rent a warehouse, lol. Have fun
5 mos old? What does he do? Try to eat the supplies? :)
Draw pictures and different faces on paper plates and play peek a boo.
Make pom poms out of yarn or ribbon by bunching them up and taping the ends long enough for a handle, and tickle him with it.
Cut an empty toilet paper roll from one end to the other and slip the straight side of a foled paper plate to make a makeshift tabletop rocking horse he can bat at or try to pick up.
Have fun! I love playing with babies.
Strip him down to a diaper and let him fingerpaint? Make handprints?
You'll obviously be the one making the crafts so I'd just make memento sort of things using hand/foot prints. Otherwise, sensory stuff may be more interesting for him. You could make some instant pudding to use as finger paint...if you're OK with him ingesting sugar and dairy. Don't worry too much about having a huge collection, you'll have SO much some day! At this point the memory is more for you and dad, so do what you like but try to include baby :)
About the only thing I can think of would be hand/foot print things. You can find tons of "pictures" to make using hand/foot prints, like animals, hearts, etc. I think someone else mentioned that as well. Other than that, I honestly am not sure why you'd want to do crafts with a 5 month old! Sorry, I am a crazy project woman, but that just sounds like a nightmare to me!
I know that some paint-your-own pottery places will let you do a free tile with a footprint on it for children under 1 year of age. We have two places near us and they both do this. You can also do plates and whatever else you might like too and they are good keepsakes.
My husband used to strip our daughter down to her diapers, and then let her smear finger paints (non-toxic, washable, of course!) around on paper and, inevitably, on her self. I think she was more like 8 months old when she started doing this (she could sit independently), but she loved it. You have to watch to make sure they don't eat the paint.
