How to Help a Child Make a Windchime
One of the most important things to do with children, is to get them thinking and to build their ability to think for themselves at a very young age. This helps them better understand how to do things in the future, and it tends to make them smarter on the whole.
Now, there are a number of ways to help spark a child’s creativity, and to get them thinking outside the box. Normally people tend to resort to helping children by teaching them from books or giving them lessons like the ones they had received themselves.
However, a better way to go about things is to go on and actually show kids how things are done first hand. One of the ways to do this, is to go on and help kids in the making of wind chimes. This will help them learn how to build a basic object, while sparking their creativity.
Instructions
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Now before you kick things off, you need to realize that you are helping a child make a wind chime. This should automatically tell you that you need to dumb down everything that you do, to a level that would be easily comprehend-able by a child.
You need to explain just what it is that you are going to be doing, and while doing this, you need to make sure that you don't get angry or frustrated with the child.
Make sure you take care of all the scissors and other items as well, since you don't want to give the child any sharp objects to handle on their own. -
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Next up, once you have the basics all thought out, you need to go on and get some rough ideas for the chimes. You can go online and get these plans from a website, or you can end up making your own.
Making wind chimes is rather easy, since it is just a bunch of items, sticking down from a base, via a thread of some sort. This is why you shouldn't really have any problems getting a plan together, with which to work with. -
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Once you have your plan in place, the next thing that you need to do, is to go on and start making the wind chimes. You can go on and do all the cutting and other partially dangerous things yourself, but remember to ask the child to do some things as well.
They can go on do some of the gluing, and holding of items, while you show them just how things are done first hand.
If done correctly, it will be a learning experience, which the child will never forget.
