You Must Have More Than Just left handed scissors when it comes to kids craft time.
You should be having fun crafting with your children. Crafting is supposed to be a fun, messy time when your kids make something out of nothing and you get to be creative. Allowing your kids to use their imagination is very important to their development. If you are like most adults you find this time sort of stressful. The messes and the kids not getting along are among the top stressors for adults. They hope that the kids will like the project they've chosen.
They worry about being able to find the right supplies (like left handed scissors). Having a happier craft time can be accomplished with the tips in this article.
Choosing a project that any age child will enjoy and they can all work together on will minimize your stress. This simple step will help ensure that everyone in the family will enjoy creating something new that all will enjoy. This also keeps you covered. One thing that happens often is you forget to get left handed scissors, you can easily redirect the right handed child to do all the cutting and the left handed child can do all the gluing.
Let the project take as much time as it needs. Your kids need to do things independently.
Of course, this may mean you'll have to step back and let them do it alone. You might feel that, if your daughter would just hand over the left handed scissors, you could have that project cut out and glued together in just a few minutes. You will see that they need the opportunity to finish it on their own. Your child will be so proud of themselves for finishing the project without your help it will be worth the extra time it will take. Tell yourself to back off and be patient. It will make craft time more fun for everybody.
Avoid letting expensive and still-good clothing items from getting spoiled. Perhaps you can sacrifice some old shirt that you hardly wear. Very young kids can do their crafts in their underwear (this should stop around pre-school age, but before that, going clothes-less is the easiest way to ensure that the clothes stay clean during craft time). Older kids can wear an apron or old t-shirt, too. Look at your craft store, they usually have extremely cheap aprons that are almost throw-aways. Obviously wearing old clothes can possibly save you major headaches with ruined clothing and laundry. You also won't have to worry about someone's left handed scissors accidentally cutting into someone's sleeve if it is covered with something else.
Craft time does not have to be stressful. We have given you the tools to have a fun and low stress craft time with the kids. Remain calm, this too is a basic rule of thumb when crafting with your children.
This means that you should prepare the craft ahead of time (making sure you have left handed scissors on hand is a good example of this) and that you should be patient even if it takes a long time to complete. Finally, don't forget to have fun!
