Introduce healthy food to kids and teach them the importance of eating fruits and vegetables through a fun activity. Check out the step-by-step instructions to our healthy pineapple easy paper craft activity for preschoolers.
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Nowadays, with a whole digital world of educational toys accessible to children, it is vitally important to provide them with spaces to develop different abilities.
Besides providing learning and exercising mental muscles, they can enjoythemselves without spending many hours at a screen. With manual activities, children develop their imagination.
Simultaneously, they can process visual information and follow the instructions presented to them while the exercise is carried out.
When children carry out manual activities, multiple neural connections are generated that bring cognitive, emotional, and physical benefits.
We find concentration, planning, and problem-solving within the cognitive benefits due to the focus children must have when doing crafts.
They must think about how it should be done and, if having an issue, they must find the best way to solve it. The child’s skills will be useful in each activity he/she will carry out in life.
When children realize they can create new things using their hands, theycan feel personal satisfaction. This feeling allows them to develop emotional benefits such as creativity, confidence, self-esteem, and affection.
This is a positive experience for children because it will enable them to build and strengthen their personality.
Finally, there are the physical benefits, which are worth mentioning, such as coordination, stimulation of the senses, and fine motor skills.
These allow children to improve the motor skills of both hands and arms. They will also have more control over their movements while having a fun time that will pay off in the future.
THEME: EASY PAPER CRAFT
HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?
Topic: Handcrafts
Age: 4-6-year-old children
Goal: Strengthen fine motor skills, emotional skills, and cognitive skills.
Difficulty level: Average. This easy paper craft activity is designed to be done autonomously and independently with an adult’s surveillance.
Skills:
- Imagination
- Following instructions
- Hands and fingers ability
- Concentration
- Independence
- Confidence
- Self-esteem
- Patience
- Memory
- Hand-eye coordination
MATERIALS
- A tray
- Two containers
- Paintbrush
- Glue
- Yellow paper strips
- Pineapple leaves previously cut out
- White card stock
ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT
Step 1:
Dip the paintbrush into the glue.
Step 2:
Smear the glue on the pineapple leaves and paste the figure onto the card stock.
Step 3:
Next, take a yellow strip and smear glue on one end. We paste it leaving a space from the green leaves.
The other end of the yellow strip will be rolled under and pasted down, forming a loop like a 3D figure.
Keep doing the step, making rows of yellow strips, until all yellow strips are glued to the white paper.
ACTIVITY RESULTS
An easy paper craft. A pineapple handcraft made with paper
FREE PRINTABLE PRESCHOOL WORKSHEETS
After doing easy paper craft, click the link below to get free printable worksheets for kids.
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HOW TO CARRY OUT THIS EASY PAPER CRAFT ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF OTHER AGES?
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 4 YEARS OLD
Young children can carry out this easy papercraft activity. It is necessary for the constant accompaniment of an adult because younger children are developing their eye-hand coordination.
A variation could be to do the yellow rings previously so that children can paste them more easily.
In this way, an activity will be carried out according to children’s development and abilities.
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OLDER THAN 6
Older children can also do this easy papercraft activity. At this age, they can do a pineapple in 3D so that the child sticks the yellow strips on a preprinted pineapple to make it more real for them.
You can also teach children the benefits of this fruit and its importance in the diet. Additionally, you can show the child a real pineapple and discuss how it grows.
WATCH THE STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS HERE
VIDEO DESCRIPTION – THE HEALTHY PINEAPPLE EASY PAPER CRAFT
In this easy paper craft video, you will find a detailed description of the activity “THE HEALTHY PINEAPPLE,” designed for 4-6-year-old boys and girls. Here, children will make a pineapple with colored paper.
This easy paper craft activity will allow children to develop skills such as imagination, following instructions, hands and fingers ability, concentration, independence, confidence, self-esteem, patience, memory, and hand-eye coordination.
The materials you will need to do the easy paper craft activity are a tray, paintbrush, glue, yellow paper strips, pineapple leaves previously cut out, and white card stock or construction paper.
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