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Paint jolly holiday fun with stickers! A great stocking filler gift.
Step 1: Find the sticker
Step 2: Peel the sticker
Step 3: Place the sticker
…and watch your Christmas painting come to life!
Includes everything you need to create ten sticker paintings on study card stock. Plus, all the pages are perforated—making it easy to tear out each finished work to frame and share!
My daughter is 16 and one of her favorite things to do on school breaks is watch The Great British Bake Off. It’s such a soothing show, as well as being creative and fun, and it’s low stakes enough that it isn’t stressful, which is just the thing you need when you’re on a break from school.
If you don’t have an oven or want to do your own real Bake Off challenges, this baking show inspired drawing challenge from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls is a great alternative. This works best if you have a group of kids to play, but you could also do it along with a child at home.
The post includes a bunch of different “baking” challenges for kids to draw. As an example: “Draw a dozen delicious doughnuts! Be sure to include at least two different flavors of icing. Challenge yourself to think of as many creative toppings as you can.”
Give them a set amount of time (maybe 10-15 minutes) to draw their creations based on the prompt. Then have each child present their creation, explaining what they chose to draw and why (and what the different flavors are if it’s not obvious).
There doesn’t have to be a winner, but kids can vote on their favorites or you can “award” things like most colorful, tallest creation, etc. Sarah suggests if doing this with little kids you can come up with an award for everyone, but there need not be prizes involved.
With older kids you might do a couple of rounds and pick winners so that you can have a “star baker” just like in the show.
This is a game that would be a lot of fun for kids of different ages, and you can do it multiple times with the different prompts.
Get all the details and the challenge cards from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.
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This isn’t age rated. I have a 3 year old granddaughter that loves to do stickers. Do you think she will be able to do the stickers in this book?
The Amazon listing says kindergarten to grade 4. I think it might be a little complicated for a three-year-old if your expectation is that all the stickers end up in the right place, but they would probably have fun with it anyway.