7 Grandparents Day Crafts for Preschoolers (Easy Ideas)

Start here: three Grandparents Day crafts that always work

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7 Grandparents Day crafts for preschoolers, with pictures

1. Salt dough handprint keepsake

The child presses a hand into salt dough, which is dried and painted.

You need: salt dough, rolling pin, round cutter or cup, paint of choice, paintbrush

How to make it

1. Roll the salt dough out thick and cut a round disc about as wide as a saucer.
2. Your child presses one open hand into the middle, fingers spread, then you lift it away.
3. Let the disc dry hard, for a day or two.
4. Paint the inside of the handprint.

2. Fingerprint heart card

The child presses two fingerprints at an angle to make little hearts across the front of a card.

You need: 1 piece of white cardstock folded as a card, red washable paint, pink washable paint

How to make it

1. Fold the cardstock in half and lay it closed with the front facing up.
2. Dab your child's fingertip in paint and press it on the card at an angle. Press a second print next to it so the two meet at the bottom in a V. That is one heart.
3. Make more hearts in red and pink, leaving white sapce between them.
4. Let the paint dry before opening the card.

3. Craft stick photo frame

The child glues four craft sticks into a square, decorates it and backs it with a family photo or drawing.

You need: 4 jumbo craft sticks, markers, foam heart stickers, 1 square of white paper with a drawing, glue

How to make it

1. Your child colours the sticks with markers.
2. Glue the 4 sticks into a square with the ends overlapping at the corners.
3. Stick hearts on the sticks.
4. Glue the white square with the drawing behind the frame.

4. Fall nature collage

The child collects leaves, seeds and twigs on a walk and sticks them onto cardboard or contact paper.

You need: 1 rectangle of brown cardboard, maple leaves, short twigs, acorns, white glue

How to make it

1. Your child glues maple leaves flat on the cardboard, spread out and partly overlapping.
2. Glue twigs between the leaves at different angles.
3. Glue acorns in the gaps.
4. Let it dry flat, with a book on top if the leaves curl.

5. Stamped tote bag

The child stamps a plain canvas bag with pom poms, corks or handprints dipped in fabric or acrylic paint.

You need: 1 plain canvas tote bag, 1 cork, red, yellow and blue fabric paint, paper plates, cardboard

How to make it

1. Lay the tote flat with cardboard inside so paint stays off the back.
2. Pour a little of each color on its own plate.
3. Your child dips the cork and presses dots on the bag.
4. Leave the handles plain. Let the bag dry flat.

6. I love you to pieces heart

The child tears coloured paper into bits and glues them all over a heart on a card.

You need: 1 piece of white cardstock folded as a card, red construction paper, pink construction paper, purple construction paper, glue stick

How to make it

1. Fold the cardstock in half and lay it closed with the front facing up.
2. Your child tears small pieces from the red, pink and purple paper.
3. Glue the pieces close together in the middle of the card front so they fill one large heart shape.

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7. Scribble mug

The child draws on a plain white mug with oil-based or porcelain markers and an adult bakes it to set.

You need: 1 plain white ceramic mug, porcelain markers, oven

How to make it

1. Wash and dry the mug.
2. Your child scribbles on the outside with the markers, making loops, zigzags and dots.
3. Let the marker dry.
4. You bake the mug in the oven following the marker's instructions to set the colour.

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Grandparents Day crafts for 3 year olds

One of these a young three can do almost alone: I love you to pieces heart. No exact cutting, no small pieces, and the glue stick does the rest.

Grandparent gifts a 3 year old can make

Pick the keepsake first. The salt dough handprint and the mug need drying or baking time, so do them early in the week and keep the card and the heart for the day before.

A three year old can fingerprint, tear, scribble and press a hand into dough. Gluing four craft sticks square and stamping the tote bag with fabric paint need an adult holding the pieces.

If the grandparents live far away, make the flat ones: the fingerprint card, the torn paper heart and a photo of the child holding the collage. They go in one envelope.

Write the child's name, their age and the date on the back of the handprint and the card. That is what grandparents keep.

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