Crafts for Nine Year Old Children
Nine-year-old children tend to be immersed in whatever they find interesting, from writing and drawing to singing and dancing. Around 9 years of age, a child starts to develop a better sense of self. At this age, kids begin to learn what they like to do and what brings them satisfaction. No matter what your 9-year-old likes to do, a way to interact and relate to them is through hands-on crafts directed towards their interests.
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Nature Collage
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Weather permitting, take your 9-year-old on an outdoor adventure. Explain that the purpose of the adventure is to find items out in nature, such as sticks, leaves, rocks, sand, weeds, flower petals and feathers. Take plastic zip bags along with you to hold the items that you gather. After you've found as many items as you can find, head back home. Lay out a large sheet of heavy-duty paper and ask your child to lay the items on the paper any way that he'd like. After he's laid them out, glue the items in place and allow the glue to dry overnight. Once the glue has dried, have your child write a story about the adventure you went on into "the wild" and describe each souvenir that you recovered on your journey.
Foam Door Hangers
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Pre-cut various shapes, letters and designs out of foam board. Separate the cut-outs by color and place them in bags or bins. Also, cut out a door hanger (one for each child), about 12 inches tall and 4 inches wide with a circle cut out in the center. Cut a slit from the top right to the top of the circle so that it fits over a doorknob but still hangs in place. Provide children with the door-hangers, cut-outs and non-toxic glue. Allow the children to decorate their door hangers with the shapes and designs. Allow the foam to dry overnight and then hang the decoration on the child's bedroom door.
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Body Image
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On a large sheet of paper (you may have to glue pieces of construction paper together), have your 9-year-old lay down. Trace around her with a permanent marker. When she gets up, let her see the outline of her body. Provide her with markers, crayons, stickers, yarn and other craft supplies in order to decorate the outline. Explain that she should decorate the picture based on the way she thinks she looks. After she has finished, hang the picture up in her bedroom. If this craft is done in school, teachers may hang the pictures out in the hallway or on a large bulletin board with the child's picture next to it.
Shrunken Head
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Boys are more likely to enjoy this experiment as many 9-year-old girls may find it "icky" or "disgusting." Peel an apple for your child and then carve out hollow areas for the head's "eyes." Place the "head" in a dry area for a week, but not outside, as animals may steal it. A pantry, on top of the refrigerator or on the shelf of a bedroom closet will do fine. Within a week, the apple will have dried out and shrank considerably, resembling an ancient "shrunken head." Have your child place yarn on top of the shrunken head with glue for hair.
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that was good choice of activities.
