Crafts are a great way to bond with your children, foster them development and open doors for learning new skills. So rustle up some supplies and start designing.
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1. Social Skills Engagement
There is no doubt that our modern societies producing lots of stress with too many ways of screen addiction and long hours spending front of smart phones and tablets, craft workshops help children to develop social skills, become future entrepreneur and leaders.
2. Determination and Following Directions
Being able to understand and follow directions is a skill that will be needed and used throughout life as the children prepares for grade school and beyond. Encouraging them to make them own creative choices along the way and help foster them imagination too.
3. Discipline and Dedication
Starting a new craft work or painting a new design is a fun and exciting thing, completing the whole piece of art is the hard part, that’s why when children start to craft, they have to be very organized and dedicated to design, paint or create any craft project according to specific plan and scheduled time frame to achieve accurate results and enjoy the final piece of art, nothing can achieve such values like crafting.
4. Precision to Details
Craft is one of the early ways for education that can develop children eye to details, how things works and why?! Keep in mind that the level of curiosity in children is very high, they are eager to learn not because they studying for an exam or to catch any life success, but they are really want to know for themselves, this is the stage in life that they can be so sharp in learning, catchy eye for details, absorbing information like wild sponge.
5. Focus and Concentration
While crafting, children learns to focus, concentrate and minimize distractions while mastering the use of scissors, glue and other crafting materials. Completing a craft project from start to finish requires concentration as well, we recommend not to use sharp tools for young age.
6. Fine Motor Skills
Painting, designing, drawing, picking up objects, cutting with scissors, turning pages in a book and pinching objects between fingers can all be used while crafting to build on your youngster’s emerging fine motor skills, finding solutions and choose the right materials and tools open hidden doors to be more connected to artistic lifestyle and become more creative.
7. Patience
Sometimes while crafting it is important that steps are followed in the correct order. Learning to wait for glue or paint to dry, for example, can be an effective way to teach your child the importance of being patient.
8. Early Problem Solving Skills
Early problem-solving skills can be taught by experimenting with craft materials and trouble shooting a project that does not turn out quite as expected. Do you have all of the materials needed to complete the craft? If not, is there something that could be substituted in its place? Try it and see what happens, by experimentation and find alternative solutions we building the next generation of smart leaders.
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