January Crafts

I think it's difficult to find great activities and crafts for you children to do in the month of January. There's a real let down after all the awesome activities of Christmas and other winter holidays, January is the coldest and darkest month so kids can't go outside much, and it can just be depressing to a lot of people.

Therefore, I try to find unusual themes for the month of January.

For example, one year my children and an entire week working within a Circus theme that ended in a small party with their friends. They loved it and it really broke up the month. Here's some themes that you might want to try with your kids during the month of January:

• Circus Activities

• Dinosaurs

• Create a new Calendar for the year to keep or give as a gift.

• Hey Diddle Diddle (other another nursery rhyme or children's song)

• Letter "A" (or another letter of the alphabet)

• Puppets (ending in a puppet show of course)

If all else fails, you can always resort to doing a winter theme... Here are some activities that you can do:

Snow Tracks - Paint a child's palm only with brown or black paint and stamp it several times onto a sheet of white paper. Guide them to stamp their palm in a straight line across the paper. Dip their index finger into paint and stamp the "toes" around the top of the palm print 3 or 4 times for each palm stamp. When done, it should look like animal paw prints in the snow.

Q-Tip Snowflakes - Lay a sheet of wax paper on a table. Use Q-tips to make a snowflake on top of the wax paper. Squirt glue on any spot where 2 Q-tips meet. Let dry completely and peel off of wax paper. Don't forget, you don't have to use whole Q-tips, you can break them up and use pieces too!

Paper Plate Snowman - Staple one small paper plate onto a large paper plate. Use buttons, pom poms,construction paper, foam, etc. to make the snowman's parts.

Pasta Snowflakes - Draw a large X on a piece of construction paper and then put a line down the middle to make a guideline for a snowflake. Use a variety of pasta shapes to glue on top of the lines and form a snowflake.

Toilet Paper Tube Penguin - This is a cute little penguin that will come in handy if you're working on a Winter theme, Winter animal theme, or Penguins themselves. I've also shown some options for creating a couple of different kinds of penguins like Emperor Penguins and Macaroni Penguins.

You'll find a lot more Winter Craft Ideas here.

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