Art and Craft Themes

Art and Craft Themes is a comprehensive, well-organised resource of interesting age-appropriate craft activities based on the following popular early childhood themes:

• My backyard
• Space
• The circus
• The farm
• Transport
• The zoo
• Colours
• Fairies
• The beach
• Teddy bears and Dinosaurs.

The activities in this book will engage young children, challenge them, promote their independence and provide them with many hours of fun. Discussing and playing with the craft they create can provide numerous incidental opportunities for children to also develop literacy and numeracy concepts.

Features:

• a comprehensive collection of more than 60 craft activities to be completed by early years children
• based around 11 popular early childhood themes
• supports the development of fine motor skills, creativity and literacy
• challenging but age-appropriate fine motor tasks
• practice in cutting, tracing, colouring and gluing
• opportunities to construct craft with minimal adult help, fostering independence and promoting self-esteem
• attractive 2-D and 3-D constructions suitable for home and school play
• minimal additional resources required
• ideas for using and displaying craft
• opportunities for teachers to incidentally develop literacy and numeracy concepts