Valentine crafts starring Dora will be a hit for a toddler and her classmates. Using cut-out colored paper hearts, glue, glitter and printouts of Dora Valentine patterns, your toddler can personalize a Valentine heart for each friend in her class. Using a wooden frame and decoupage glue from the craft store, your toddler can collage Dora Valentine prints onto the frame to create a special valentine photo frame to give as a gift or keep for herself. Dora Valentine prints can be found on the Internet and printed out.
Toddlers can make Dora and her best friend, Boots, using toilet paper rolls, crayons, paper, scissors and glue. Print out a template of Dora or Boots, which can be found online. Have your toddler color the template and then cut it out. The template can then be glued onto the toilet paper roll, creating a three-dimensional figure that can stand unassisted. This craft develops fine motor skills as your toddler colors and cuts out the templates and allows him to express creativity and imagination when playing with the finished craft.
Holiday ornaments to adorn trees or to be hung around the house are a creative art project for toddlers to make. Print out Dora and Diego templates from the Internet and allow your toddler to color or paint them. Help your toddler paint and glitter three craft sticks green, then glue them together, forming a triangle. This is your tree. Then help your toddler paint one craft stick brown, and glue this down the center of the triangle, letting a 1/2 inch stick out below the "tree" for a trunk. Help your toddler glue either the Dora or Diego colored template to the brown craft stick. Tie a ribbon to your ornament and it is ready to hang.
This art project combines cutting and gluing to create a pig pillow toddlers will love. Using a template for the pirate pig printed from the Internet, trace the pieces of the pig pillow onto pink felt for your toddler. Let your toddler practice fine motor skills by cutting out the pieces. Help your toddler glue the pieces together and decorate the pig face with googly eyes, a smile and pig nostrils. The smile and other face features can be drawn with a permanent marker or added using puffy paint.