Crafting & Children

Enhancing a child’s imagination at an early age – through crafting projects – not only encourages creative stimulation, it can also be a hugely rewarding experience for both parents and kids. Crafting can help to develop and fine-tune eye-hand coordination, visual discrimination and cognitive and fine motor skills, in ways that computer consoles simply cannot. There is no drawback to crafting with your children if you are using safe products that will not harm them or the environment. So what are you waiting for?

Here is an interesting article from CraftBusiness:
"For children, especially those aged between four and 12, very little encouragement is needed to get them engaged in creative crafting projects – especially when an activity is planned well and there is a clear and concise end target to be reached. The responsibility lies with parents to ensure that firstly, crafting is high on the family agenda and that children are sufficiently motivated to partake in crafting activities, and secondly, that crafting can be easily accessed by children at all times and that they are provided with all the tools they need to get creative." CraftBusiness