Expert: Laura - 2/28/2011

Question
Hi, I'm a nanny looking after 16 month old boy girl twins, I really want to do
More arts and crafts with them but am having trouble coming up with activities that they can actually do and they are getting a bit bored of just scribbling and finger/ sponge painting, we have lots of tubes boxes etc but we don't know what to do with them, any ideas would be much appreciated!! Many thanks in advance!

Answer
Hi Jade
Thanks for the question.

Below I have listed a couple great websites that I use often for crafts with 16 month year old kids.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/toddler/

http://www.first-school.ws/

http://www.busybeekidscrafts.com/

I often find a lot of crafts for older kids can be used with younger children if you prepare and do a lot of the work for them (like cutting).

Another really fun craft is finger painting with pudding because they can eat it too!

Let me know if you need any more help