Go boys? Got paper plates? Want an easy paper plate craft for toddlers?
Gotcha covered!
Paper Plate Craft For Toddlers: A Boat!
This easy boat craft will be a hit with toddlers, and boys in particular. You don’t need much for supplies, it helps fine motor skills, and is fun to play with too!
Supplies Needed For A Paper Plate Boat Craft
- One thin paper plate
- markers or paint
- construction paper
- scissors
- glue stick
How to Make a Paper Plate Boat Craft
- Cut out a trapezoid (the wonky rectangle with the fat bottom) [boat hull], long skinny rectangle [mast], and a triangle [sail] from the construction paper.
- Have your child paint or colour the paper plate’s bottom. This is the ocean for which your boat will sail upon.
- Glue the pieces of boat together by overlapping the pieces.
- Fold the paper plate in half so the bottom is ‘out.’
- Glue the boat onto the paper plate’s fold so it sticks up a bit like it the photo above.
- Voila. Give the paper plate a bit of a tap to make it rock back and forth and your boat is riding the waves–or maybe the stormy sea if your toddler is anything like mine!
Enjoy! Have fun. Play on!
Do you have a favourite paper plate craft? What is it?
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Fine Motor Skill Development Activities For Kids
Have you noticed if we say that a silly, fun, playful activity like stickering up a page with stickers is good for our child’s development we are more likely to promote it and give it importance?
Well, most silly, kid’s play is actually good for their development. But this sticker activity show in the photo above is particularly good for developing fine motor skills. And yeah, it’s a bit nuts how my toddler piled the stickers over top of each other, but he’s learning something there too. He’s learning spatial awareness, layering, how things still exist even when they ‘disappear.’ So many things!
And it also works as a quiet activity we can do together–I peel the stickers off the sticker paper and he places them on the page. It’s fun, it is a way to connect–and I can ensure the stickers don’t end up on the walls or in the dog! But it also has created a sense of pride in my son. He loves this craft. It is proudly displayed in his room and he enjoys adding to it day after day.
So grab some stickers and sticker it up! (It’s not like when I was a kid and stickers were hard to come by!)
What activity do you enjoy with your kids that promotes unexpected development perks?
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