Art and craft help your preschoolers in multiple ways that encourage them to experiment with the things around them. No one can deny the fact that papercraft is perfect for your small kid and its imaginative power. In a time where technology is becoming overpowering, craft keeps your child away from more screen time and toxicity, addictivity of the technology.
Here are the top benefits of paper crafts for your preschoolers:
Papercraft Improves Fine Motor Skills:
Papercraft encourages children to draw, tear, glue, and paint besides other exercises that promote dexterity. These activities help your child to develop and strengthen fine motor skills. Paper crafts put tangible blocks in preschoolers’ hands, allowing them to focus on each step separately, and using their motor skills to make adjustments.
Fostering Imagination:
When your child gets involved with papercraft, there is no end to what they can imagine. The journey of their imagination starts with a rough piece of paper and ends with the final product. With every new craft, your child discovers a new aspect of creativity and their preferences. From colour choices to the material, they have to make choices of all that by themselves. It helps them not only with imagination but also with creativity and decision making.
Understanding and following instructions:
Another major benefit of papercraft is that your child learns to listen to what other people are saying and follow them to get the desired result. We all know that dealing with a child is not an easy task but by following step-by-step instructions they can reach the desired goal.
Stronger child-parent bonding:
When your child makes a craft with you, it makes you closer to your child and improves communication between you. You can know their imagination, ideas and creativity and shape it in a constructive way. Same way, your child can know your views, ideas and ways of executing things. This way you both can share your world together in a creative way.
Inspiring Critical Thinking
Paper crafts inspire your preschooler to think critically. They have endless possibilities as they work through their project, so this is an excellent learning opportunity to see how their choices affect the outcome. If they do something well or make a choice that they like, they are likely to repeat it. On the other hand, if they see that a decision didn’t have the outcome they wanted, they can adjust to improve the next time. Critical thinking activities make your child more likely to explore their own ideas and find new, creative ways to reach a goal.
Expressing Emotions
Children express their emotions in a variety of ways. Paper crafts add one more platform for them to share what they might be feeling and give you insight into their emotional health. For example, if they’re drawing a face, and the face is frowning, it opens a line of communication so that you can ask questions (e.g., “Why did you choose a frown instead of a smile?”) This example is one of many, but ultimately, by watching your child’s choices and asking questions, you allow them to share their feelings in ways they might find more comfortable.
Encouraging Social Skills
Paper crafts create a collaborative environment where your child can work with you or a peer to meet a shared goal. This collaboration helps them to develop communication skills and gives them common ground with others their age. Even children who have different interests can come together to work on a craft.
Beyond these seven benefits, engaging your child in a papercraft can spark joy and promote new concepts through creative learning. If you’re searching for at-home activities for your preschooler, The Gardner School shares early childhood development tips and activities on our blog and our Pinterest profile.
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