31 Ways Preschoolers can Celebrate National Craft Month

By Joanna Young

March is National Craft Month! Preschool Holiday Crafts would like to celebrate this annual event by sharing some great ideas for the whole month.

Crafting with your preschooler provides important quality time and instills pride and accomplishment in your preschooler. You and your preschooler can join in the celebration all month by following this simple calendar of things to do for National Craft Month. For more information, visit the National Craft Association.

Day 1: Take a look at all the great Preschool Holiday Crafts on PreschoolRock.com. Look around the site and find a preschool holiday craft that’s just right for your preschooler!

Day 2: Visit your local craft store to get ideas and inspiration for creating some awesome crafts with your preschooler.

Day 3: Go around the house gathering household items that can be recycled and transformed into preschool holiday crafts. Toilet paper and paper towel tubes, empty boxes, jars, cans, wrapping paper, fabric scraps, silk flowers, and old clothing are all good examples of crafts materials to be found around the house.

Day 4: Sit down with your preschooler and look through family magazines, crafts magazines, and catalogs. Gather ideas for preschool holiday crafts that you and your preschooler can work on together. Make a list of supplies and tools you’ll need.

Day 5: Read Seven Tips for Inexpensive Preschool Holiday Crafts. Visit your local thrift stores, dollar shops, and crafts stores to find inexpensive items for creating preschool holiday crafts. Search for affordable crafts items at Amazon.com.

Day 6: Create a crafts station. Gather up scissors, glue, tape, and other crafts supplies. Place them in one convenient place – a box, filing cabinet, dresser, etc. Make this your designated crafting area so you and your preschooler can have all your crafts supplies handy.

Day 7: Visit Preschool Crafts for some great preschool crafts ideas, advice, and articles. Read 15 Tips to Make Preschool Craft Time Fun and 12 Tips for Preschool Glitter Crafts.

Day 8: Craft making day! Using the ideas and crafts supplies you’ve gathered, create a preschool craft with your preschooler. Have fun!

Day 9: Photograph your preschool craft project and submit it to Preschool Holiday Crafts to have it published for everyone to see!

Day 10: Read Preschool Book Review – Skip Through the Seasons. Purchase the book or borrow it from the library. After reading Skip Through the Seasons, check out the related preschool holiday craft, Touch and Feel Seasons Wallhanging. Gather up the crafts materials to make this fun and unique Preschool Holiday Craft!

Day 11: Invite Grandma and Grandpa over for some fun preschool craft time! Visit Grandparent Friendly Preschool Holiday Crafts for ideas and inspiration.

Day 12: Loved one’s birthday approaching? Sit down with your preschooler and plan to make a loving preschool craft gift!

Day 13: Check out Preschool St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for ideas for St. Patrick’s Day. Gather up the needed materials and plan for St. Patrick’s Day crafting with your preschooler.

Day 14: Inspiration often comes from nature. Take your preschooler for a walk through the neighborhood or park, taking care to notice and collect items such as leaves, flowers, pebbles, etc. Then visit Nature Preschool Crafts for ideas on using nature’s beauty for preschool crafts! 

Day 15: Spread some newspapers over the table, grab your preschooler’s old t-shirts and a few bottles of fabric paint and have some fingerpainting fun!

Read more: Days 16-31 of National Craft Month!

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