I don’t know about you, but we love Autumn in our house. Watching the leaves change colour, Autumn natural treasures to collect such as acorns, pinecones and conkers. Making leaf kebabs, autumn mud kitchens and Pumpkin activities. Leaf painting, crafts and baking. Before we dive into our activities below, I’d love to share with you …
Tag Archives: Crafts for kids
Egg Box Finger Mouse
These recycled egg box finger mice are super cute and easy to make. You can then play with your Finger Mouse, creating small world play scenes and whole families of mice!
Egg Box Chinese Dragon
A lovely simple craft for Chinese New Year. Create this lovely Egg Box Chinese Dragon to display in your setting year after year.
Peg Doll Pom Pom Fairy
Pom Poms are really simple to make and by adding a traditional wooden peg and a few extra details, you can make these gorgeous Peg Doll Pom Pom Fairies to hang from your Christmas tree!
Cotton Reel Bobbin Christmas Elves
These recycled cotton reel bobbin Christmas elves are really cute and you can get really creative making all kinds of Characters.
Wand Making Craft
The Harry Potter craze has had a huge impact in our house. My eldest loves all things Harry Potter, and I have to admit as do I! These handmade Magic Wands are easy to make and so effective.
Great Fire of London – Story in a Shoe Box
Creating a small world in a shoe box is a lovely, manageable craft project for children. This simple but effective story in a shoe box – depicting The Great Fire of London was done for my 8yr olds Creative Homework Project for school.
Recycled Toilet Roll Tube Light Up Castle
A simple budget-friendly recycled toilet roll tube castle – using readily available items such as toilet roll tubes and paint. Find out how we made ours here:
Egg Box Flower craft
Egg box flowers are so simple, and yet so beautiful. Once made, the flowers can be used in a variety of ways. Find out below how we made ours and what you can do with them.
Magical Dream Jars
These magical dream jars were inspired by the Roald Dahl Dream Jars. They are really simple to make and children can choose and fill their own jars with whatever takes their fancy. Dragons, Unicorns, Mermaids, Fairies, Pirates.
9 Halloween Craft Projects for Kids
My boys love Halloween and it is a great opportunity to keep them busy with craft projects.
Here are our favourite 9 craft projects for kids.
How to make a Recycled Cardboard Treehouse
We have seen expensive wooden versions of these, but here is our recycled cardboard version. Inspired by @early_childhood_fun101 over on Instagram. Check out how we made ours below. Use old cardboard packaging cut down to the size that you want. We used two kitchen roll tubes and two toilet roll tubes. You could paint the …
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How to make Dragon Eggs
Turn simple plastic eggs into magical, decorated dragon’s eggs with a tiny Fimo dragon to go inside!
My First Blog Post
This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Family is so important. Time whizzes by so fast and before you know it your children have grown up. Enjoy and capture every moment. This blog and our social channels below are for us …
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