🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop
- 🎨 Creativity & Self-Expression — Making freely chosen creative decisions — which colors, shapes, and materials to use — develops a child's personal artistic voice and the confidence to express original ideas across all areas of life.
- 📐 Spatial Reasoning — Three-dimensional crafts — paper folding, cardboard construction, clay sculpting — develop the spatial intelligence children need for geometry, engineering, and understanding how physical objects relate in space.
- 💬 Vocabulary Expansion — Craft activities introduce rich domain-specific vocabulary: fold, crease, overlap, layer, press, symmetrical, transparent. Children who acquire craft vocabulary develop stronger descriptive language across all contexts.
- 🧠 Pre-Writing Skills — Drawing, tracing, and mark-making with a variety of tools develops the grip strength, pencil control, and visual-motor precision that handwriting requires — making craft time genuine writing preparation.
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Featured Preschool Book Review
Cleo's Color Book teaches your preschooler to identify colors. The boldly illustrated pages and peppy rhyme scheme will keep your preschooler fascinated. Your preschooler will want to read the book again and again. Cleo's well-drawn face is so entertaining that your preschooler will want to turn the pages quickly to see what she will look like next.
The short text and colorful illustrations also make Cleo's Color Book an excellent book for the classroom. It's educational on many levels because it not only teaches color, it teaches color comibing and demonstrates artistic technique through the texture of the drawings. Read the review.
Preschool CD Review
Preschool Crafts presents crafts inspired by the Songs for the Coolest Kids CD by Princess Katie and Racer Steve. The songs on this CD not only teach character, but provide a series of different beats sure to get your preschooler on his/her feet and rocking out. For more information on this exciting music that will appeal to preschoolers as well as elementary children. Read the review.
Crafts Inspired by Songs for the Coolest Kids
Preschool Feelings Masks
Princess Katie sings
Tell Them How You Feel, a song encouraging children to express their emotions. Your preschooler can learn to put their feelings into words by making
Preschool Feelings Masks.
Preschool Designer Jeans
Princess Katie loves her jeans. She even sings about them in the song,
Jeans!. Your preschooler can create their own designer jeans on butcher paper.
Kings and Princesses Preschool Crowns and Tiaras
Your preschooler can feel like a king, queen, prince, or princess with their very own crown or tiara. You can make them from leftover metallic gift boxes or poster board or you can decorate pre-made crowns with jewels, sequins, and/or glitter. Crowns are great for parties, costumes, or dress up play.
Princess Katie's Preschool Ribbonrine
Princess Katie has a special ribbonrine she uses when she performs. Your preschooler can make their own version of Princess Katie's Ribbonrine to shake along to
Songs for the Coolest Kids.
Racer Steve Preschool Race Cap
Racer Steve met Princess Katie after he won the Royal Races held in Happyville Kingdom. Your preschooler can be cool like Racer Steve by making their own
Racer Steve Racing Cap. Maybe he'll meet a beautiful princess like Princess Katie, too!
Racer Steve Preschool Race Car
Your preschooler can create their own Royal Races race car to match Racer Steve's green and white racing outfit. Why not make several and hold Royal Races of your own in the kingdom of Your House.
Featured Preschool Craft Articles
12 Tips for Preschool Glitter Crafts
Preschoolers enjoy glitter. It's shiny and makes their crafts prettier. However, glitter can be difficult to clean up. However, there are ways to minimize glitter mess and speed clean up.
15 Tips to Make Craft Time Fun
Here are some ways to make craft time easier by preventing messes and other difficulties from occurring.
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Start a Royal Rockband
Preschool Rockers love to rock to Songs for the Coolest Kids. Rock along with Princess Katie and Racer Steve by turning pots and pans into musical instruments.
Racing Wheel Cookie Party Treats
Cookies dipped in chocolate with white frosting centers look just like the wheels of racecars. They make the perfect treat for a Princess Katie and Racer Steve party.
Establish a rotating gallery system: a designated wall space with clips, a clothesline, or frames with removable backs where new work regularly replaces old. Photograph all work before rotating it out — a digital photo album of a year's artwork shows remarkable development and stores without physical space. Send particularly meaningful work to grandparents and relatives, who often display it prominently. The key principle: everything gets acknowledged and displayed briefly; the best pieces are kept for longer; photographs preserve everything.
