A selection of the arts and crafts articles from our blog.
Cool down in the garden with this giant dinosaur ice cube rescue activity. We have been so lucky with the weather over the school holidays and have enjoyed lots of long hot sunny days. To help keep us cool, we have been having fun playing with ice. And our favourite icy activity this week, has … Read more
Hands up who remembers playing with Fuzzy Felt as a child? It used to be a firm favourite of mine and my little sisters. We’d spend ages sat at the kitchen table with all of the colourful felt pieces laid out making different pictures on our little felt boards. One of my sons received a … Read more
Puffy Paint Ice Cream Collages. This week we’ve been getting stuck into some ice-cream inspired arts and crafts activities in celebration of the many we’ve been eating due to the (mostly!) lovely sunny weather we’ve been enjoying. First on our list was to create some puffy paint ice-cream pictures. Puffy paint is something I keep … Read more
Have fun getting messy in the garden with this big outside art activity. We had great fun out in our back garden tackling some big outside art. My sons have wanted to get messy with some foot print painting ever since seeing this fab post from Our Little House in the Country . We decided … Read more
Bring the beach indoors with these moon sand mini beaches We had great fun making and playing with our very own mini beaches indoors. Perfect for toddlers and big kids alike to enjoy together. How to make Moon Sand mini beaches Basic Moon Sand recipe 8 cups of flour 1 cup of baby oil All … Read more
Tissue Paper Flowers My 4 year finishes up at his pre-school this week. I can’t believe I am going to have two kids at big school come September! He is so excited about it, especially after meeting this new teacher yesterday. Lets just hope he’s as excited come September. He has had a fabulous teacher at pre-school who … Read more
A friend gave me a large bagful of corks last week. She works as a waitress and she has been collecting them, as she thought they d be handy for me to use with the kids to make something with. I m getting such lovely support from friends and family after embarking on my blog journey, … Read more
We love to re-use ordinary household items in our arts and crafts. At the weekend we purchased a new set of wine glasses. They came wrapped in bubblewrap and were placed into a cardboard box for us to bring home safely. Packaging materials are great to re-use in kids arts and crafts activities and … Read more
Arts and crafts don’t always have to involve specialist materials. Sometimes all you need to do is look around and see what you already have at home. It’s definitely worth getting into the habit of saving some of your empty cereal boxes, toilet roll tubes, plastic bottles and bottle tops for arts and crafts projects.Ordinary household … Read more
My eldest son had a very exciting delivery to this classroom last week. Five baby caterpillars. We have been eagerly checking them each school morning to see how much they have grown. They are growing at quite apace. My son has been explaining to his siblings about how they are going to turn into cocoons … Read more