Children’s table for craft activities: what should we pay attention to?

How to choose a table for crafts activities for your kid?

Our Art Light Activity table🎨 can be used as a regular writing desk that grows with your baby and is a multifunctional play and creative zone

For crafts activities and creative development, a kid should have a certain place in a room.
Be more specific – a children’s table. But before buying it is necessary to understand the
nuances and differences of this piece of furniture.

In age about 1,5-2 years there comes a moment when children begin to realize themselves
as individuals: they strive to do a lot on their own, repeat what their parents do, find
interesting activities for themselves.

Reduced copies of adult things help children realize their own importance and significance
in this world. Kids’ tables (and chairs for children, which are often included) serve the same
purpose. Kids should have a place in the room where they can draw, sculpt, play board
games – do “important things” like mom or dad at the desk.

Children’s table: what should we pay attention to?

1. Tables for children must be strong, stable, but not heavy, and must be appropriate for the
age and height of the child. It is better to navigate according to the information below:

Age Height of a child Height of a table
1-2yo 31-35in 13,5-15,5in
2-4yo 35-39in 15,5-17,5in
3-6yo 38-45in 17,5-19,5in

Creativity has no boundaries, that’s why children’s drawings from paper often transfer to the
walls. To prevent this, a kid should take a separate piece of the wall. It can be pasted over
with special wallpaper-coloring or painted with slate paint, on which you can draw with
chalk. If this is not possible, then chalkboards and paper canvases mounted directly on the
wall will be a real Solution. It allows a child to draw both standing and sitting.

The properly organized storage system is a guarantee of an order, which is often missing in
creative corners. Here you can use plastic and metal containers, where it is convenient to
put paints and albums. Pencils and pens conveniently put in metal cans, decorative
buckets. Fastening supplies for creativity is also convenient to put into different pockets or
board with holes (pegboard), roof rails and magnetic boards.

Even the youngest artist dreams of his own Exhibition. A wall at the creative corner can be
decorated with drawings of the child. For example, place them in a frame or fasten with
decorative clothespins. All kids will be pleased to admire their work and it can be a good
decoration solution.

How to choose a proper desk or a table for your kid

For each child, a desk is not just a piece of furniture, it is a workplace where he has to spend a lot of
time. The convenience of the desk determine

desk for kids

s the comfort and health of the child, so this choice you
should make carefully.
First of all, it is necessary to determine exactly where the desk for the child will locate. As soon as you
know it a size and a shape of the table depend on these features.
If the desk is chosen for a long time, it makes sense to purchase a transformer that can be adjusted to
the height of the child. Posture, spine, and joints are formed during all school years, and it is very
important that the writing desk matches the size of the person sitting. Transforming desks are
adjustable for the height of the legs and the tilt of the tabletop. The disadvantage of such tables for kids
is their higher cost comparing others.
If you decide to buy a table for the future, you need to find a chair with height adjustment. Perfectly,
when the child is sitting at the table, his elbows should be located on the table top, his legs reach the
floor and bend at the knees at a right angle. The distance between the tabletop and the knees should be
about 4-6in.
In addition to the height, the width of the table top is also very important. All the necessary items for
activities should be placed on the table, and there should be a place for the child.

Some tables have a drawer which equipped with a lock, such additional feature can be purchased for an
adult child or a teenager because each kid should have his or her own personal space.
A desk can be made from any high-quality modern material. A wooden table is considered a classic.
But it is not worth buying furniture from cheap chipboard, this coating is swelling from any wet spot left
on a desk from a spilled cup of water, and can be deformed.
Plastic furniture should also be treated with caution. Some types of plastic can be unsafe for your kid.

Unconventional drawing techniques help kids to be creative individuals

There is a great variety of non-traditional drawing techniques. The main thing is that they allow children to quickly achieve the desired result. Children experiment with the properties of various materials, learn the movements that help create certain shapes and lines. Nontraditional drawing develops self-confidence, allows not being afraid of failure, gives freedom for creativity. The most favorite technique of unconventional drawing is an imprint of seals of various materials (stamping).

Stamping attracts with its simplicity and accessibility. Reveals the possibility of using familiar objects as art materials. We use vegetables, fruits, leaves, twigs, dried flowers, and other natural materials as stamps. stamping drawing kids activity

Stamping is a great activity not only for one kid. You can offer a creative task using stamping techniques to 2-3 or more kids. The main advantage of it that kids can have different skills in drawing and nobody will fail.

For stamping, you can use regular paper or create a whole creative project on a craft paper roll.

You can offer a specific topic for this project – it can be any season, wheather, mood, nature or you can choose it together with a child.

According to the topic, it will be great to prepare stamps together. This activity develops fine motor skills and mobilizes your imagination. Or you can just buy the stamps in any craft store.

If you decided to do them yourself you need to encourage your fantasy. As there are a lot of interesting and creative things, you can use as stamps for drawing.

You can begin from the most common stamping techniques -the stamps of plants leaves. The first thing you need is to prepare the leaves of trees of different shapes and colors. During the walk with kids collect leaves of various trees.

Apply paint on a leave, turn, attach it to a sheet of paper and press. The result is an autumn leaf print.

In the same way, you can use buttons, various covers, lego, cork, sponges, cardboard etc.

This technique develops the creative possibilities of the child, the imagination, increases the interest in art activities.

Unconventional drawing techniques help kids to feel free, to be creative individuals, to see and convey on paper what is much more difficult to do in ordinary ways. When the kids are drawing, they reflect and organize their knowledge of the world.

3 TYPES OF SAND AND SENSORY MATERIALS FOR GAMES

3 SAND OPTIONS for the best touch games!

SAND FOR DRAWING

Natural quartz sand
Powdery texture gives an extraordinary tactile softness and lightness! You will be able to create with it the most beautiful sand paintings.
The grains of sand touch the fingertips, feel the tenderness!
Sand can be reused.
Touch pleasure at your home!
Use different colors for creative and interesting pictures

sand games kids

SAND FOR GAMES

Larger than natural quartz sand.
It is great for loose games!
Its texture is more contrast, with the game achieved a light micro-finger massage.
SPACE PLAY SAND

It is magic sand with fundamentally new properties!
It stretches, as if spreads out, perfectly molded, remaining dry! It is pleasant to knead like dough, the most beautiful shapes and castles are made of it.
It is used for high-end games “PRINTS”
If you have not tried cosmic sand yet, you should definitely touch this MAGIC at home with Art Light Activity Box or Table

But that is not all!

For a variety of sensory games, we suggest using –
Hydrogel balls (or orbic balls) are jelly balls, which, being saturated with water, turn into a delightful sensory pleasure.
If your child is still in the period when he or she tastes everything, we play under supervision.
Pebbles, shells, marbles – for your unlimited imagination in the presence of sets of shells with starfish, natural painted sea pebbles, glass marbles
Well, everything you want or can fantasize
Also, the greatest thing is artificial snow for winter sensory boxes.

Non-Newtonian fluid for children’s play

The next fun and creativity crafts for kids using materials you have always at home is calling Non-Newtonian fluid.
Your kids or you maybe know something about this activity. A non-newtonian fluid is a great sensory play for your kids, it differs from classic boards games, but your kids will definitely enjoy this craft project. Non-Newtonian fluid for childrens play
By adding more water to the starch, we get a non-Newtonian fluid that hardens from a sharp and strong impact and flows when relaxed. In such a liquid it is very interesting to spit with your hands, and if you can, then with your feet.
How to make a mass of starch?
Pour water into a bowl. Gradually pour the starch into it. You need twice much starch than water. Constantly mixing to homogeneity, adding starch until the mass is thick. You can check the readiness of the mass by hitting it with the palm of your hand. If the palm is not sinking, then it is ready. And now try to gently let the palm down into the mass, so palm sank. And if you again sharply slap it on the surface, then it will seem to you that you knocked on a dense body, and not on a liquid. Here is solid-liquid mass.