🎓 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.
- ♻️ Environmental Thinking — Using natural or recycled materials in crafts begins to develop awareness that materials have a life beyond their original use — an early foundation for environmental stewardship and sustainable thinking.
- 👁️ Hand-Eye Coordination — Guiding scissors along a line, placing stickers exactly, and painting within a space all require the visual-motor integration that handwriting, sports, and detailed work depend on.
- 🌈 Color & Pattern Recognition — Selecting, mixing, and arranging colors and patterns sharpens visual discrimination — the ability to notice subtle differences — which transfers directly to letter and number recognition in early literacy and math.
On their Songs for the Coolest Kids CD, Princess Katie, Racer Steve, and the band have a song called Kings and Princesses. Your preschooler can pretend to be a king, queen, prince, or princess with his or her very own preschool crown or Princess Katie tiara. Read the review of Songs for the Coolest Kids.
Materials you will Need
How to Make It
Step 1:
Choose a crown or a tiara.
Step 2:
Peel the protective paper off the back of a jewel and stick the jewel to the crown or tiara.
Step 3:
Continue to stick on the jewels until you think you have enough of them on.
Step 4:
Adjust the crown or tiara to fit.
Step 5:
Put on your crown or tiara and the Songs for the coolest Kids CD and rock out!
Helpful Tips for Parents
Tip 1:
Choking alert; keep the jewels away from children who are still in the everything-in-the-mouth stage.
Tip 2:
If you can’t find adhesive back jewels, use the kind that do not have adhesive and a nontoxic, all purpose craft glue.
Tip 3:
Point out to your preschooler that the people in the song, Kings and Princesses are very special people not because they were rich or because they came from a special family, but because they did good things for other people. Then, when your preschool does something good for someone, get out his/her crown of tiara and tell him/her that they deserve to wear it for acting like a King or Princess by doing something good for someone.
Host a Princess Katie and Racer Steve Party
Princess Katie and Racer Steve Preschool Party
Bring Princess Katie and Racer Steve to life in a fantastic funfilled preschool party. Whisk away your preschooler to Happyville Kingdom and the Royal Races, have fun and giggles, and excitement and wiggles as you dance along to some fantastic songs.
My name is
Shannon McMath and I am the Crafts writer at PreschoolRock.com. I live in California with my husband, Steve, and my daughter, Emily. Crafting is a passion of mine and I love to pass on the joy to preschoolers. Sharing quality time with your preschooler creating crafts will not only help him/her develop fine motor skills and creativity, it will create memories that will last a life time! If you have any ideas, suggestions or comments feel free to
contact me. Thanks!
Relax the attachment to recognizable results. A 3-year-old's abstract painting is exactly what it should be — an abstract painting by a 3-year-old. Representational craft (making something that clearly looks like what it's supposed to be) typically develops between ages 4–6. Before that, the value is entirely in the process: the sensory exploration, the mark-making, the material investigation. Asking "tell me about your creation" rather than "what is it?" receives the child's own meaning without implying the result should look like something specific.
This frustration signals that the craft was presented as a product to replicate rather than a process to explore. Stop showing examples before the child makes their version — introduce the technique and materials, but not a finished model. If the child still compares theirs to yours, validate: "Yours and mine both look different, and both are interesting." Shift to entirely process-based crafts (exploration of materials with no intended outcome) until confidence with variation builds. Perfectionism in craft at this age almost always comes from adult-modeled products.
