I only do 'crafts' when it is a seasonal celebration and we need a product orientated gift for the parents ~ outside of that I just do open ended art and sometimes we do 'guided representations' where I will say 'wonder if we could use these materials to build a robot' or what not.

I offer that group age appropriate mediums to explore for sure ... so for infants as soon as they are 'sitting' in a high chair with head and arm control they start being offered creative art mediums ... they love to finger paint and move it around and even things like putting down a piece of sticky tack on their highchair and adding some pom poms or cotton balls or whatever in a bowl on their tray and let them explore putting the pom pom on and trying to get it off! Heck some days the babe has explored a piece of 'tape' while all the older ones were actually using tape to create an art project or collage ... there is often nothing to 'send home' because for the babies it is about the process of the creation and sometimes we create as a 'group' on a large piece of paper on the table and it hangs in the playroom as decor and than I either draw a name to send it home with or toss it out if they have truly lost interest in it!