need help for arts and crafts for my 4 year old.?

Question

well im on a very tight budget and i am not very creative when it comes to arts and crafts but he likes to do them so much so i was wondering if you guys have any ideas on any arts and crafts that do not cost too much. It would be fun for him and me to do together.

Answer 1

Lots of buttons and macaroni that he can thread on string with a big blunt needle.
Crayons - draw outlines of people he knows and label them, let him colour them in. They enjoy colouring 'daddy' and 'uncle' blue or green.
Play-dough - every kid in the world loves it.
Collage - collect dried leaves, flowers, seeds, sticks, glue them onto stiff cardboard in a landscape pattern.
Make a plain cookie dough and let him shape it how he wants. Decorate when cooked with smarties and coloured icing.
Try putting a few drops of food colouring in his bath - they love that.
You can make a frame and let him weave strips of cloth into a mat for the bathroom.

Have fun!

Answer 2

I went to walmart kids crafts section and bought some of those plastic sun catchers for 48 cents each and some of strips of stick-on magnets then got a pack of sharpies and let my little ones make magnets for our fridge. They LOVED it and it caught on all over my mother's work place. Also I got little foam frames and foam stickers for them and allowed them to decorate them how they wanted and let them choose the picture they wanted in it. There's also all kinds of little crafts you could do, fabric markers and allow him to draw on a shirt, finger paints outside on some paper. I also got creative with food, and let them help cut hotdogs into octopus and bologna into fish and creat an underwater scene for them to munch on with ketchup as the water.

Answer 3

for Halloween have him make ghosts out of Kleenex. Get white Kleenex and make a golfball size ball and then drape more kleenex over top and rubberband under neck. Put eyes on with black marker. hang with string from fan and turn on fan. They will fly.

Let him draw people and animals with crayons and cut them out to have to play with.

make a sail boat out of foil and let him sail it in bathtub.

let him make flash cards out of paper and put letters on them and teach him his letters.

let him make Christmas ornaments for your Christmas tree. You can use foil, beads, popcorn, construction paper, glitter, etc.

Get pipe cleaners and let him make stick people and animals.