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    You are here: Home / Art and Crafts / Screen-Free Fun for Kids: Design Your Own Stickers

     

    Screen-Free Fun for Kids: Design Your Own Stickers

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    A very easy way to keep your kids entertained without the help of screens is to show them how to design their own stickers! This simple art project has two parts. First, kids will make the stickers. Then, they will use them.

    Grid of plain white stickers with text overlay

    Double the fun!

    I came upon this idea spontaneously when I discovered a hoard of blank office label stickers in the craft box. As my son's custom stickers demonstrate, you don't need to display a lot of talent for design to have get your creative juices going.

    If if kids just want to make solid color stickers, that's fine, too.

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    Instructions

    What you need:

    • Plain white stickers in any shape and size. White label stickers like these will work just fine.
    • Markers or fine liner pens.

    Optional: scissors, if you plan to cut shapes out of larger stickers

    Give children the labels and the markers. Watch them create their own stickers. That's it!

    Child coloring in white sticker labels

    Variations

    If you have full page sized stickers like these children can draw their sticker designs and then cut them to shape.

    Provide different shaped stickers like dots, fancy shaped labels or even reinforcement donut stickers to get kids' brain bending in all sorts of directions.

    How to Use Custom Stickers

    Your child may wish to add their newly designed stickers to their artwork, notebooks or other school supplies.

    Even preschoolers can make and use their own diy stickers. Peeling stickers off backing paper is good fine motor exercise. My son's younger brother likes to place stickers in his pre-writing journal.

    Office supply stickers are also good for toddler dot-to-dot and resist painting.

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    1. Christy says

      April 18, 2011 at 11:50 am

      Great idea!

      Reply
    2. maryanne @ mama smiles says

      April 19, 2011 at 11:40 pm

      Love this idea!

      Reply
    3. Geeta Mehta says

      April 14, 2015 at 6:40 pm

      superb idea it is

      Reply
      • Erica MomandKiddo says

        April 15, 2015 at 9:37 am

        Thanks! And it is so easy.

        Reply

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