Happy Halloween Everyone!
I was lucky this week when it came to doing crafts. I say this because although it was a busy week, I got to do crafts at work. Since this was the first official week that was not very nice, we had to keep the kids inside when it was raining. On these days, we have stations, which are free play, arts and crafts, and drawing/colouring. These three stations keep them preoccupied the whole time. Since one of the stations is arts and crafts, I came up with a few ideas that the kids would be able to create.
For the first rainy day, we were able to make melty beads (Perler beads) and make decorative Halloween houses. Melty beads are a huge hit they do them every day. I will try to show you their creations when I can. I do work with a younger age group, so they do need help when it comes to cutting certain things out. I did cut a few things out for their decorative Halloween houses. The houses were made out of construction paper but sadly we running out of the majority of colours so we used what we had!! The photo below was my example!
On the second rainy day we did the same stations as above! We kept the melty beads and also made spiders. For this craft we used construction paper, googly eyes, pipe cleaners and craft scissors. Thankfully I found more paper in the other portable so we were able to make them! For this craft the only thing I did was cut holes into the sides of the spider so they could put the legs through (pipe cleaners).
Let me know if you have a favourite craft from this week or any fun ideas I should try!!
October 30, 2022 at 6:03 pm
Hi Natasha,
Those are great crafts! The house and spiders look really good, but my favourite has to be the melty beads. I remember doing the melty beads with my sister as a kid and it was a lot of fun! I can’t recall, do you use an iron to get the beads to stick together?
October 31, 2022 at 7:00 pm
Hi Isaac,
I agree melty beads are always a hit and the kids will spend the full three hours doing them! Yes we use an iron to melt the beads, my work only has one iron right now so we have been running the iron back and fourth between the three portables ahah
November 7, 2022 at 11:20 pm
Hi Natasha!
Oh my goodness, we use melty beads in my After School Care job as well and it keeps the kids busy for HOURS! I love how you come up with themed crafts based on upcoming holidays! When you post a Christmas craft, I will have to try it with my After School Care kids!
Thanks for sharing!