Sequin Art

Sequin Art - Fine motor precision required

Sequin Art is a great craft kit for fine motor skills. You will be working with small pieces and repeating a sequence of movements over and over.

This kit comes with a thick piece of styrofoam and a colorful picture (see note below). Lay the picture on the styrofoam. Pick up a small sequin, push a small straight pin through the hole in the middle of the sequin, then push it on a circle of the same color on the picture. That's it. Do this over and over to create a colorful, sparkling picture. You can see an image of someone ready to pin the sequin in the upper right hand corner of the box (image above). Check it out to see the sizes of the pieces. If you would like to see it in more detail, go to Amazon and click on the image. Then use the magnifying glass to enlarge it.

 

Showing the size of the picture and the white styrofoam behind it.

 

I'm finally going back to work in person and this is the craft I am going with. The Sequin Art brand is a little pricey with most kits running between $18 and $25. However, one picture will take many hours to complete. I bought one kit and will have several kids work on it a few minutes per session. So this one picture will last me awhile. 

Reasonably priced crafts and craft kits are getting hard to come by. Michael's has almost doubled the prices of their crafts and crafts kits around here and they no longer offer the 40% off coupon each week. Hobby Lobby seems to offer the same craft line year after year and I no longer have a big enough caseload to justify buying crafts from Oriental Trading in 12 packs.  Plus their prices have risen significantly also. So even though this one craft kit was $25, I will get a lot of use out of it.

Each color of sequins comes in a small cellophane bag, with no way to re-close it after opening. I buy the small plastic bags from Hobby Lobby and put each sequin color in its own resealable bag. Those small bags come in handy for lots of stuff. 

The size of the picture in this kit is 9 3/4" X 13.5". I don't know if all the kit sizes are the same. If the description on Amazon does not say, I usually scroll down and look at the product information. They will tell the size of the package and you can get a general idea.

NOTE: There are lots of different pictures to choose from. I see that they have started making some of the pictures with all white dots, instead of colored sequins printed on the picture. If there are only white dots, you will have to use the image on the box to know which color to put where. You can tell how each kit is printed by looking at the circle in the top right hand corner of the box. Trying to follow the colors from the box image would be way too tedious for my kids, so I only buy the kits that have the sequins printed in color on the picture.

Engaging in this craft kit may be quite tedious and frustrating to the wrong person.

 Try this: 

• Demonstrate what to do and let the individual follow you.
• Place a few pins on the table top and separate them if the individual will have trouble picking them up or doesn't like to be poked.
• Place a pin in each sequin for the individual if they are not capable of doing that part. Lay the units on the table top and let them pick each one up and place it on the picture.
   

In the box: 1 large pieces of styrofoam, 1 picture, bags of sequins to match the colors needed for the picture, bag of short straight pins