Craft Activities for Preschoolers - Friendship Bracelet - Mighty Kids (2024)

Make quiet time a fun time for children by doing craft activities for preschoolers. Check out the step-by-step instructions for this fun friendship bracelet activity.

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Parents have the power in their hands to transform the future of their children by helping them to live in a friendly and happy family environment. Children learn to understand the world initially from their families. Parents transfer knowledge through their example; if children see social and positive behaviors in the adults around them, they will repeat them.

Teach children to be kind and compassionate with others through a smile, be good-natured, help others, generate empathy with others by putting themselves in their shoes, and keep a positive attitude. Explain to them that any decision affects their lives. Teaching them kindness through an example, such as growing seeds to reap the harvest, is an act of love that allows us to adopt positive behaviors for life.

Kindness is a personality trait linked to friendship. Individuals with high kindness traits tend to avoid confrontations and care about others. It helps to neutralize negative thoughts and generate trust – crucial for a person to be honest and fair; sincerity – does not manipulate others, showing honesty, altruism, help others; modesty – people show themselves as they are; empathy – allows people to put themselves in the shoes of the other, compassionate.

Simkin et al. (2012) explain that a characteristic of kindness is helping others. That should coincide with certain ease in interpersonal relationships, friendship, and solidarity. Consequently, to broaden the social field and support it among people with these characteristics.

A way to increase courtesy in children is by teaching them what friendship is, grown as a flower, fed with politeness, and watered without any hope of personal gain or interest. That way, personal relationships bloom. People can have assertive communication, create empathy, are not selfish, and show compassion to others.

THEME: CRAFT ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOLERS

HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?

Topic: Kindness – Fine motor skills

Age: 4-6-year-old children

Goal: Teach, encourage, stimulate, and motivate children to be kind.

Difficulty level: Advanced. This craft activity is designed for children to learn about kindness through friendship under adult surveillance.

Skills

• Precision in hand and finger movements
• Eye-hand coordination
• Attention
• Autonomy
• Self-esteem
• Focus
• Following instructions
• Teamwork
• Empathy
• Assertive communication
• Trust
• Honesty

MATERIALS

We are not going to use all these materials, they are optional, but the idea is that children have several things to choose from.

• Colored sequins
• Colored beads
• A holepunch
• Liquid silicone or glue
• Crayons and markers of different colors
• Foamy
• Scissors

ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

We recommend adult supervision to avoid accidents because children can put the tiny things into their noses, mouths, or ears; or maybe injure themselves with the scissors.

Step 1:

Choose the materials you want to use. Make the friendship bracelet and decorate it.

Step 2:

Use different materials and tools that allow them to strengthen and develop skills in their movements of hands and fingers.

Step 3:

It is possible that during the process, some difficulties may arise. In this way, they can strengthen kindness by helping others.

ACTIVITY RESULT

Fun craft activities for preschoolers. Making friendship bracelet.

HOW TO DEVELOP THIS CRAFT ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD

You can do this craft activities for preschoolers with younger children. To reduce the difficulty level, you can provide the bracelet already made because it is possible children cannot handle the scissors or hole punch yet. Children must decorate the bracelet with sequins and beads. In this way, children will carry out a preschooler activity appropriate to their development and abilities.

CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OVER 6 YEARS OLD

You can carry out this craft activity with older children. To increase the difficulty level, you can give them foamy of different colors to make the bracelet and add their friend’s name. In this way, children will carry out an exercise appropriate to their development and skills.

VIDEO DESCRIPTION – FRIENDSHIP BRACELET CRAFT ACTIVITY

In this craft activities for preschoolers video, you will find the step-by-step of the “FRIENDSHIP BRACELET” activity, designed for 4-6-year-old children.

Here they will make a handcraft using different motor techniques to strengthen some skills and learn about the meaning of friendship.

This craft activity will allow children to develop precision in hand and finger movements, eye-hand coordination, attention, autonomy, self-esteem, focus, following instructions, teamwork, empathy, assertive communication, trust, and honesty.

The materials needed for elaborating the craft activity are colored sequins, colored beads, a hole punch, liquid silicone or glue, crayons, and markers of different colors, foamy, and scissors.

(Adult supervision)

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