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Crafts for 1 Year Olds – Ideas and Projects for Toddlers

March 30, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

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This collection of crafts for 1 year olds include sock animals, painting with recycled materials, DIY toys and more! Perfect for home or in the classroom.


 

Crafting with 1 year olds can be tricky! There are a couple of main points to remember, primarily, that is IS NOT the end result that matters, but namely the process! Putting materials onto glue develops fine motor skills, working on a vertical surface helps with bilateral coordination, and engaging the senses help kids retain and remember information!

 

This collection of crafts for 1 year olds include sock animals, painting with recycled materials, DIY toys and more! Perfect for home or in the classroom.

10 Crafts for 1 Year Olds

We’ve identified many of the benefits of crafting with one year olds and toddlers above, and all of these crafts included will hit on some of these points.

RELATED RESOURCE: Join this FREE 5 day no-prep craft challenge for kids! Starts April 16th, 2018.

Why is the process more important?

Process art has become incredibly popular among early childhood educators as we have come to understand just how much more important the process of engaging in art or crafting is than what the end result looks like.

Process art allows children the opportunity to be creative, imaginative, and explorative, all while learning the way they do best, through play and experiences! 

Crafts for 1 Year Olds

Marbling with shaving cream is a really fun method for this age group. They can get their hands messy and the process doesn’t require any small parts. Simply press some paper onto colored shaving cream to create some beautiful effects. See a couple of ways we have done with this doilies below:

 

This collection of crafts for 1 year olds include sock animals, painting with recycled materials, DIY toys and more! Perfect for home or in the classroom.

Marbled Valentine Hearts 

Marbled Shamrocks

Make a sock animal! My kids have loved scooping and dumping rice since they were very little, it’s a soothing process and a great way to engage in sensory play. Filling an old mis-matched sock with rice can create really fun characters! We’ve made bunnies, babies, and snowmen! 

This collection of crafts for 1 year olds include sock animals, painting with recycled materials, DIY toys and more! Perfect for home or in the classroom.

Snowman Sock Buddy Scented with Essential Oils

Paint with recycled materials. We love to find old items ready for the recycling bin to paint and craft with. My little ones always loved tape – so a few strips of tape hanging off of the edge of the table and a pile of toilet paper tubes were great for making sculptures! These materials can be great to stamp with also! Here are a few fun ways to paint or craft with household items:

This collection of crafts for 1 year olds include sock animals, painting with recycled materials, DIY toys and more! Perfect for home or in the classroom.

Paint with Bundled Q-Tips

Sensory Process Art with Recycled Materials

Make Paintbrushes with Household Items

Make a collage! Placing items onto glue is such great fine motor practice for 1 and 2 year olds! They can also help to spread a little glue with a paintbrush – a really fun exercise for them. Do it on the wall with contact paper to eliminate the glue all together and work on a vertical surface! 

This collection of crafts for 1 year olds include sock animals, painting with recycled materials, DIY toys and more! Perfect for home or in the classroom.

Bird Seed Bear Collage

Apple Picking Sticky Wall

Turn your craft into a DIY toy! Think about the toys that your children love to play with most, and find a way to craft one! Even 1 year olds can appreciate and take pride in the process of making something that they can use. And, though they might need some helping hands, this is a great opportunity to bond and connect!

This collection of crafts for 1 year olds include sock animals, painting with recycled materials, DIY toys and more! Perfect for home or in the classroom.

Make a DIY Maraca

Make a Paper Butterfly with a Party Horn Tongue

It’s possible, 1 year olds can play too! Here are 10+ Art Activities for 1 Year Olds to do after your crafting 🙂

RELATED RESOURCE: Join this FREE 5 day no-prep craft challenge for kids! Starts April 16th, 2018.

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These art activities for 1 year old are safe for toddlers, and encourage them to engage with materials around them to practice so many wonderful skills. sensory activities for 1 year olds pin 1-2 Activities for 1 year olds printable pin

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