Seasonal Crafts & Activities: Card Making Supplies and Calendars
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With each year comes a handful of opportunities for seasonal crafts and activities - from Christmas to birthdays to Mother’s Day and everything in between. Making cards and calendars is a fun and educational task for children and makes lovely mementoes for family and friends to cherish.
Let’s take a look at the joys of card and calendar making!
Educational benefits of card making seasonal crafts & activities
Crafting has many benefits for children, and making sure they’re expressing their creativity is an essential part of growing up. Here’s why:
Crafting provides an outlet for emotions. These crafty activities show them that self-expression of their emotions is healthy and positive and that they don’t always have to be able to find the words to express themselves, they can do it visually too.
Practising planning and concentration while crafting. They’re encouraged to plan and problem solve to get the outcome they want, and it boosts their confidence when they see their plan come together!
Allows them to develop fine motor skills. Crafting is fiddly and tactile; many activities help develop fine motor skills and dexterity by allowing them to practice freely.
Seasonal crafts & activities teach children about other cultures. It’s not all about Christian holidays. Children can learn about other significant holidays like Eid, Hanukkah and Chinese New Year by crafting cards and calendars. This helps them bond with each other more, too.
All of these apply to card making seasonal crafts and activities too! Getting children to focus together on making cards or decorative calendars to give to their family and friends also creates a sense of connectivity, even when working independently.
Children can really struggle with some of these skills, especially fine motor skills, planning and concentration. But giving them a seasonal craft activity they are creating to give to someone else helps them with the motivation they need to persevere through the task.
By making cards and calendars through seasonal crafts and activities, you also encourage children to write! They need to write their message on the inside, if they’re too young to do it themselves, you can take the pen and sound words out with them as you write, or you can write the letters and have them copy them down. It’s a great chance to practise their handwriting skills!
Seasonal crafts & activities card making and calendar supplies
A wonderful seasonal craft activity to excite the children is making their own annual calendars to hang at home for their families! This pack of calendar tabs is the perfect starting point. The blank pages offer a great canvas for finger painting, drawing or collaging and lends itself to independent play or guidance for younger children.
This pack of assorted aperture cards is perfect for seasonal crafts and activities! These bright and simple cut out cards make a great starting point for all kinds of festive greetings. The pre-cut card creates the perfect window to create a celebratory card for any occasion, with plenty of space to write a lovely little message too!
You can add different textures to your seasonal crafts and activities by trying out these hessian cards. This 30 card pack comes with ideas, coloured card blanks, hessian pieces and pre-cut shapes to get creative with! With plenty of cutting, sticking and glueing, this tactile seasonal craft activity will keep the classroom going for ages.
We’ve got Christmas pudding cards, jumbo cracker cards and pop-up tree cards for Christmas seasonal crafts and activities. All of these are festive and help reduce preparation time so you can just get going. Or you could get simple plain cards with envelopes that are perfect for crafting activities and allow children to start with a blank canvas to make whatever they want.
Hopefully, your classroom is already stocked with paints, collage resources, and crayons, all of which make great seasonal crafts and activities card making supplies. But it’s nice to get something a little special too - like these metallic gel pens and markers or these glitter markers! All make fantastic tools for glittery stars and sparkly writing.
As you can see, seasonal crafts and activities have many benefits, and the biggest one of all is that it’s fun! If you have any questions about seasonal card making and calendars or would like to use one of our happy team members as a springboard for ideas, please get in touch today.
