It can be said that the recent epidemic is still not under control, and therefore the nationwide school suspension has been postponed. For parents with children at home, they will definitely be worried that they will have nothing to do at home. This article will recommend an excellent FirstPalette website, which provides a lot of handicraft teaching and free printing materials suitable for children. What should be prepared and how to do each step is clearly written, so that your children can continue to learn and create at home. It is worth collecting.
FirstPalette website introduction
FirstPalette is a foreign website. It doesn’t matter if you can’t understand English. You can use Chrome’s full-page translation function to translate it into Chinese. You should basically be able to understand it. There are two main categories at the top of the homepage: “Crafts” and “Printables.” Crafts provides many sample tutorials on crafts, telling you and your children what to prepare and how to do each step. Printables provides free printing materials:
You can also scroll down to browse the currently popular handicraft categories, such as SUMMER and WEARABLE. Many children will like wearables. You can make your own Spongebob hat:
Crafts provides many categories for handicrafts, ranging from letters, animals, colors, food, weather, birthdays, New Year, Father’s Day and Mother’s Day, to seasonal categories. There is also a selection based on age (Crafts by Age) on the far right. Those who are not yet in kindergarten can browse Preschool, and those who are already in kindergarten are Kindergarten:
After finding the category you are interested in, go to the pagination to browse various works, such as the animal category as shown below:
This one should be loved by many little boys. SPUULES NEEDED will list the things needed to make this set of works:
Scroll down and you will see the production instructions for each step. Basically, for every handicraft work, there will be something that you need to prepare separately. Like the paper box in the picture below, you can use a shoe box:
The animal website provides free printing materials. You don’t need to draw them yourself, just print out the examples. Hyperlinks will also be provided within the steps (e.g. step 3), click to open the material page:
Like this:
You can find the print files of each material by scrolling down, and the download will start when you click on them. Most of them are PDF files. In addition, this website is very considerate. Almost every printed material will provide two versions: “uncolored” and “colored”. If you want children to graffiti by themselves, you can download the uncolored version. If you don’t have coloring tools at home, you can download the colored version:
Once you open the PDF file, you can start printing:
If you feel that the content of Crafts is too difficult, you can directly browse the Printables menu, which is relatively simple and has many categories, such as animals, bags, Christmas, people, Halloween, etc.:
Taking Christmas as an example, you can find many Christmas-related printables, such as: elk, Christmas stockings, snowmen, and Santa Claus:
Each inner page will also have production instructions:
Source: KOCPC Chinese