🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 🌿 Sensory Exploration — Handling varied craft materials — soft fabric, rough sandpaper, smooth clay, scratchy burlap — builds sensory discrimination and supports the processing skills that some children need additional practice with.
• 👁️ 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.
• 📋 Planning & Sequencing — Multi-step craft projects require children to think about what comes first, next, and last — building the procedural sequencing skills that underlie reading comprehension, mathematics, and everyday problem solving.
• 💪 Persistence & Resilience — Working through a craft that doesn't go as planned, fixing mistakes, and persisting to completion teaches children that effort — not talent — produces results, a mindset that predicts lifelong learning.

Paper preschool crafts are popular among preschoolers because they are generally easy to do. Paper is relatively inexpensive, so these paper preschool crafts will be a bit easier on the family budget. When doing preschool crafts, it’s a good idea to have one that you have made ahead of time so the preschooler can get an idea of what s/he is intended to do. Create the preschool craft along with your preschooler to give them a better understanding of what to do. Remember preschool craft time should be quality time!

Featured Paper Preschool Craft

Preschool Basic Cone Hat
The Preschool Basic Cone Hat is a base for a wide variety of hats you can make. You can use turn it into a clown's hat, a wizard's hat, a hat for a medieval princess, or let your imagination run away and create something unique.

Other Preschool Paper Crafts

Just Like Me Paper Plate Masks
These fun masks are easy to make and your preschooler will be thrilled to make a mask that resembles himself or herself. Using masks is a fun way for your preschooler to be expressive through dramatic play.

Basic Preschool Paper Plate Mask
This mask is the fundamental paper plate mask that other paper plate masks are based on. Use this basic pattern to help your preschool take his/her imagination wherever it may go.

Featured Preschool Book

The Parable of the Pumpkin is an excellent book for parents who want to teach their children about nuturing something or someone they love. The story tells of how a farmer lovingly turns a pumpkin into a glorious sight. The illustrations are very colorful and beautifully drawn. Preschoolers will love looking through this book whether by themselves or listening to an adult read to them. The pictures are large enough for the book to be used for reading to a group. 

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Good Ole Mapping Fun
Have you ever wondered what you can do with those old maps? Why not make use of those old maps instead of adding to the landfill? Here's a great map activity that your preschooler will love.

Nine Safety Musts in Preschool Homes
The safety and well-being of our children is at the forefront of every parent's mind. Preschoolers, with their increased mobility and constant need to explore, are at risk of physical harm in the very place we think most secure: our homes.

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I'm Margaret Studer, the Preschool Crafts writer for PreschoolRock.com. In addition to crafts, I enjoy writing, children, cooking, and cats. I love to hear from my readers, so please share your preschool craft ideas with me. If you have any suggestions, ideas, or questions about this site, please contact me.

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