Kritzeln, Schnipseln, Klecksen

Many parents, playgroup leaders, and educators want to encourage children in the development of their imagination and creativity, supporting them in their creative use of colors and materials. This book takes all adults with children aged 2 to 8 on a journey of discovery, where children can have their first exciting experiences with colored and wax crayons, finger paints, watercolors, and various types of modeling clay. Adults will learn many fun ideas and suggestions for painting and crafting with children. The author, drawing on her extensive experience in family education and playgroup work, offers a wealth of ideas for first painting and crafting activities with young children. She presents a special painting and crafting book for children that focuses more on the initial, important experiences with materials and the creative handling of colors and paper than on polished pictures and crafted products.

From the content: Promote fun, imagination, and creativity in children! But how?! First experiences with colors, paper, and other materials: doodling with colored and wax crayons, playing with finger paints, experimenting with watercolors, squishing and shaping with salt dough, modeling clay, and clay, snipping and gluing paper, yarn, and straws; simple crafting suggestions with various materials: paint, paper, glue, cardboard, bottle caps, paper plates, cardboard tubes, boxes, egg cartons, yarn, fabric, cotton, salt dough, modeling clay, clay.