[For 2-year-olds] A collection of craft ideas useful for winter childcare
Winter is full of events like Christmas and New Year’s, and it’s a season children in daycare look forward to.
When the cold of winter arrives, many of you may be looking for craft ideas that kids can focus on indoors.
In this article, we introduce many winter craft ideas recommended for two-year-olds.
Try making projects that cover a wide range of themes—pasting construction paper and stickers, drawing pictures, and trying fun techniques.
Because the children’s creations are treated as works (sakuhin), we refer to them as “seisaku” (productions) in the text.
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[For 2-year-olds] Compilation of Craft Ideas for Winter Childcare (51–60)
Oden that can also become a wall!
Here’s a craft project for making oden that even toddlers can do, and it can also be used for wall displays! First, let’s make the oden shop.
Cut colored construction paper into a face shape, then draw or glue on the oden shopkeeper’s facial features.
For very young children, prepare the face parts in advance.
Apply glue to the head area and stick on yarn hair piece by piece.
It’ll be fun to have yarn in various colors.
Next, let’s make the oden ingredients.
Stamp the konnyaku pattern using a cotton swab, make lots of your favorite ingredients, and then glue them onto colored construction paper of your choice to finish!
Make oden together with adults! From 0-year-old children
This is a craft activity where you stick oden ingredients made from construction paper onto a paper plate.
Depending on age, children can enjoy mainly sticking on pre-made pieces, or they can cut construction paper with scissors, draw patterns, and make the ingredients themselves.
The examples shown here include konnyaku, mochi-filled pouches, and kelp rolls.
There are many other classic oden ingredients too, so it would be fun to freely create them with construction paper.
It’s an idea that excites viewers as well, as they can see what kind of oden each child has made.
A wall display of oden that even two-year-olds can enjoy!
Stick this on the wall and it’s sure to make you hungry! First, cut out the shapes of a pot and soup from construction paper and glue them in place.
Next, cut out your favorite oden ingredients from construction paper.
If teachers at kindergartens or nurseries, or parents/guardians, pre-draw the shapes of various oden ingredients on the paper, children will only need to do the cutting.
Once the ingredients are cut out, arrange and paste them however you like inside the pot you made at the start—that’s it! Paste lots of your favorite ingredients and complete your very own original oden pot.
Made with sponge stamps! Fun oden
Using sponge stamps, we’ll create patterns for oden ingredients.
For example, for konnyaku, if you press a coarse-textured sponge or a sponge with raised bumps onto a triangle-cut piece of gray construction paper like a stamp, you can make the konnyaku’s speckled texture.
In the same way, using a sponge with carved grooves will make the daikon’s striations, and a sponge with fine cuts can create the wavy, mottled pattern of fish cakes.
Once your oden ingredients are ready, paste them onto construction paper cut into the shape of a pot to complete your oden hot pot!
Craft Ideas for Winter Childcare for 2-Year-Olds (61–70)
Snowman Stencil
This is a snowman craft made with stencils.
You’ll make the stencils using clear file folders.
For two-year-olds, have them use the stencil and dab paint onto it with a sponge to create the snowman.
Once the snowman is done, stamp snowflakes around it in the same way.
You can quickly make snowflake stencils using a dedicated punch.
There are also steps like attaching parts for the snowman’s face, hands, and hat, drawing the face, and sticking on round stickers, so let the children handle whatever tasks they can.
It’s a cute idea that’s perfect for winter wall decorations.
Polar Bear’s Underpants
Let’s create a picture-book character! Here are some ideas for the polar bear’s underpants.
The polar bear in the beloved baby book “Shirokuma no Pantsu” (Polar Bear’s Underpants) is popular with children for his cute expressions and humorous underwear.
This time, let’s make your very own pair using a crayon-and-paint resist technique! When kids stick on the polar bear’s face parts themselves, their individuality will really shine through! Give it a try!
Skeleton flower
Display them by the window when they’re finished! Here are some ideas for skeleton flowers.
It’s the season when warm sunlight streams in through the windows.
How about decorating the windowsill with your children’s creations? You’ll need: a backing sheet, colored cellophane or transparent origami paper, flower-shaped cut construction paper, round stickers, glue, scissors, crayons, and clear tape.
Let the kids freely stick on the cut pieces of colored cellophane or transparent origami paper! The colored shadows they cast will surely delight them.