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Decorate a Picture Frame
Toddlers can design simple frames to showcase their creations!
Recommended age for this craft: 18 months+
Art materials
- Crayola Beginnings™ TaDoodles™ First Marks, Crayon Buddies, Easy Stampers, and/or All-in-One Paint
- Crayola Beginnings Tidy Top
- Precut cardboard mat for 8" x 10" picture or larger
Directions
- Help your child put on a Tidy Top. All artists wear smocks!
- Sit together at a smooth, hard, washable surface—a table, highchair, or the kitchen floor.
- Suggest that your child decorate the cardboard mat. Scribbles, swashes, dots, lines—anything goes! Name the colors with your child. Describe the effects you see: "Dot. Dot. Dot. You're making purple dots with the marker."
- On the back, write your child's name and age. Talk with your toddler about one or two letters and numbers and what they mean.
- Use the frame to showcase your child's art.
Celebrate With Note Cards
Send note cards to friends and family! Share the good news about your child's latest growing-up milestone.
Recommended age for this craft: 18 months+
Art materials
- Crayola Beginnings™ TaDoodles™ First Marks, Crayon Buddies, Easy Stampers, and/or All-in-One Paint
- Crayola Beginnings Tidy Top
- Plain notecards and envelopes
Directions
- Help your child put on a Tidy Top. All artists wear smocks!
- Sit together at a smooth, hard, washable surface—a table, high chair, or the kitchen floor.
- Offer one notecard at a time for your child to decorate. Scribbles, swashes, dots, lines—anything goes! Decorate the back of the envelope, too.
- Ask your child what message to share and write it on the card. One possibility: "I wear big-boy/big-girl pants now!"
- Encourage your child to "sign" his or her name, or even perhaps a first initial. Talk with your toddler about one or two letters and numbers and what they mean.
- On the back, write your child's name and age. Address the front and add a stamp. Mail the card to a special friend or relative.
Create a Personal Potty Portrait
Celebrate toilet learning success with a big-kid portrait!
Recommended age for this craft: 18 months+
Art materials
- Crayola Beginnings™ TaDoodles™ First Marks, Crayon Buddies, Easy Stampers, and/or All-in-One Paint
- Crayola Beginnings Tidy Top
- Large sheet of plain paper (tape paper grocery bags together or use rolled table coverings, for example)
Directions
- Place paper on a smooth, hard, washable floor. Ask your toddler to choose a Crayon Buddy color and then to lie down on the paper.
- Trace around your child on the paper. It will only take a minute—but it may still be hard for a wiggly toddler to stay "frozen" in place!
- Suggest that your child look in a mirror. Talk about arms, legs, head, and other body parts. Remind your child about the Huggies® PULL-UPS® underneath. Talk about colors of clothes, shoes, and hair.
- Offer Crayola Beginnings art tools for your toddler to decorate the outline. You might see splashes of color for big-girl/big-boy pants. Or back-and-forth scribbles for a favorite shirt and shoes. Hair might be swirls or lines sticking straight out. This is your child's personal portrait!
- Write your child's name and the date on an empty space. This is a memento to treasure for a lifetime!
