ART AND CRAFT: STICKERS

Mummy, can you buy me some stickers?

My daughter loves stickers very much. Sometimes, she gets them from her teachers at school as rewards. Other times, she receives from friends.

She was already in love with stickers way before she started school. During her brother's project time at home, she would "attack" the stickers from our art and craft storage. There was a period of time when she would put stickers on things she wanted to claim ownership to. So, we would find stickers almost everywhere, including pillows, toys, furniture and even on parts of our bodies.

ON THE OTHER HAND,

I love stickers for another reason.

They can be great art and craft items and they are mess free!

If your child is not great at drawing yet, use stickers to help create an awesome picture even with very minimal drawing skills.

So let's do some art with stickers this week.

Week 5: ART AND CRAFT

Topic: STICKERS

PROJECT A

If you have picture stickers, you could do something like in the picture below.

This combines stickers with some creativity/imagination.

Minimal drawing skills needed.

Medieval Times

PROJECT B

Using labelling stickers, you can make any picture you could imagine.

You could use some other materials such as threads and colour papers to make the picture look more outstanding.

No drawing skill is needed.

A pot of flowers

PROJECT C

A simple project using only labelling stickers.

This was a guided activity where I drew dots on the places where the stickers were supposed to be placed.

No drawing skill is needed.

Suitable for young toddlers.

Simple yet fun and rewarding
for a young toddler to be able to put the stickers accordingly and the end results of his own work.

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