VIDEO: Handicrafts in kindergarten
A vase for the kindergarten made of milk carton
Handicrafts in kindergarten is fun, and if it even turns out useful things, then even more. They learn by tinkering with milk cartons or other recycling materials children also how valuable raw materials are. Milk cartons are ideal for handicrafts in kindergarten because they are extremely robust and easy to use. Since the cardboard boxes are waterproof, they are ideal for making a great flower vase for the group table or the window frame.
- Adults should definitely take this first step. Use the cutter to cut the top three to four centimeters off the milk carton.
- Now it is rinsed. Wash the milk carton thoroughly with hot water and let it dry out well.
- Now it's up to the children. Let the kids stick colorful scraps of paper on the outside of the milk cartons. You don't need scissors for this - the children should just tear the paper. A colorful flower vase is ready.
- If you want to avoid damaging the vase when it is filled with water, then you should cover the outside with a thin layer of lacquer.
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Another possible use for the various milk cartons or other tetra packs are small storage boxes. After all, there are often a lot of things lying around in kindergarten that could be put in order. This storage box is also conceivable as a pen holder for many, many colored pencils:
- Again, first cut off part of the milk cartons with a cutter - but this time a good half. Clean the boxes as described above.
- Now glue the boxes together - first three in a row and then the rows together. If the glue is not strong enough, you can also use a stapler.
- Now the kids can put colorful stickers on the milk cartons again and wonderful milk carton storage boxes are ready, with the help of which the children in the kindergarten are sure to like to tidy up.
