The famous educator Montessori proposed: "In a child's early childhood (0-6 years old), playing with the child and doing crafts are the two most important things." Because according to the sensitivity she raised From a period perspective, many important abilities that children will have when they grow up are developed in childhood. The movement of small muscle groups such as the wrist and fingers can directly stimulate the cerebral cortex and promote the development and improvement of cerebral cortex functions.

In addition to using hands when doing manual work, eyes, ears, brain and other organs are also used. Doing crafts is high-quality play, which allows children to fully develop their thinking abilities and can also promote their physical and psychological development. The thinking ability, happiness ability, self-regulation and social ability, and ability to construct things when they grow up have a lot to do with guiding children to carry out quality hand-made activities during the sensitive period.

Lack of self-confidence, introversion and loneliness need to be cured by manual work (happiness ability)

Robert Owen, a famous British educator, pointed out: "Children's manual work is not only a physiological effect, manual activities have a profound impact on children." The comprehensive ability and mental health are more important. "Handcraft activities can cultivate children's self-confidence and self-awareness, and correctly guide children to use their hands and brain to solve problems encountered in manual activities. Let children experience the success achieved after hard work, perceive their own abilities, and enhance their self-confidence. Each handicraft activity is equivalent to a small-scale process of realizing an ideal. The process is full of various factors, allowing children to experience rich scenes, bring a more optimistic attitude towards life, and cultivate the ability to be happy.

The reason for being angry and unsociable is because there is little manual work (self-regulation and communication skills)

Parents know that arts such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting can cultivate the body and mind. In fact, making handcrafts It is also a good way to cultivate your body and mind and improve your self-regulation ability. If you don’t know how to discipline a naughty kid. A good way is to accompany him to do crafts. Because completing manual work quietly and patiently can improve children's self-regulation ability.

Many towns in Australia have set up multiple handicraft venues for children in the last century, specifically allowing parents to bring their more difficult-to-ruly children to do handicrafts. Saturdays and Sundays bring children together to work together on difficult craft projects that require teamwork. In the process of hand-making, in addition to the physical and mental edification of children, the mutual cooperation through hand-making will make children better able to communicate with others, think from others' perspective, and promote the development of communication skills.

Cultivate children's observation and imagination (the ability to construct things)

Children will gradually develop the habit of carefully observing the things around them during the manual process, and grasp the things around them more and more accurately. characteristics of things. Children's manual activities from imitation to creation are the process of continuous improvement of creativity. In the process of observing real things and creating imaginary things, the connections in children's minds are enriched, and the ability to construct things is born from this.

Cooperate with other children and cultivate team awareness

When doing handicrafts, you can arrange a time a week for your children to work with other children to do handicrafts. In this way, in addition to exercising your children's ability to do handicrafts, you can also It can teach children the importance of teamwork. You can also encourage children to give their own works to other children. During festivals, it is best to organize children to make gifts for each other and give them to each other.