Nursery World - Paper tricks

Just fold along the dotted line . . . children's love of working with paper can be encouraged with these simple paper craft ideas from Gail Bushell paper offers a wealth of opportunity for creative expression. It can be delicately crafted, modelled, constructed or simply painted or drawn on.

paper offers a wealth of opportunity for creative expression. It can be delicately crafted, modelled, constructed or simply painted or drawn on.

Children absolutely love to draw and create images of real and fantasy worlds.

By the time children have reached the age of five most will have developed the basic skills that are needed to hold and manipulate small tools such as scissors. This gives out-of-school workers the opportunity to promote more advanced crafts and design ideas.

Many out-of-school settings provide a table that is permanently designated as the craft or drawing table. This means that children have constant access to an abundance of paper, old boxes, pens, glue, paint, rulers and scissors. To encourage and stimulate the children you could also provide a range of drawing, craft and modelling books, or books that show children how to draw cartoons and so on.

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