Pumpkin Ring Toss Nanny Anita 23 October, 2019 Crafts & Activities, Living There is always part of me that feels slightly guilty when I am carving up a pumpkin. It feels like I am wasting food, don’t get me wrong, I love to carve them and I will probably be carving one in the up comin...
Halloween Silhouette Scenes Nanny Anita 21 October, 2019 Crafts & Activities, Living These Halloween silhouette scenes are a nice quiet activity. I had one of my munchkins at home sick and when the tv became tedious she wanted to do some art with me. We spent a lovely and quite afternoon doing ...
Marble Painting Spider Webs Nanny Anita 16 October, 2019 Crafts & Activities, Living Marble painting spider webs is a super quick and easy Halloween craft for children of all ages. It was the perfect afternoon filler for BB and myself. If you are worried about the marbles being too small for li...
Halloween Melting Hand Activity Nanny Anita 14 October, 2019 Crafts & Activities, Living This Halloween melting hand activity is easy for children to help setup and keeps their attention for a long time. We’ve done many similar activities over the years, but this is the first time we’ve done it as ...
Halloween Fingerprint Silhouette Pictures Nanny Anita 9 October, 2019 Crafts & Activities, Living This Halloween fingerprint silhouette picture is a really nice and simple craft for all ages. It is slightly more involved than some crafts that I do with BB, because to make the picture you have to make sure y...
Monster Blow Painting Halloween Craft Nanny Anita 7 October, 2019 Crafts & Activities, Living It is always fun to start doing Halloween crafts and activities. This monster blow painting is not only a fun craft for all ages, but for toddlers the use of the straw will help develop muscles used in speech. ...
Monster Hair Cutting Activity Nanny Anita 2 October, 2019 Crafts & Activities, Living Learning to use scissors is a really hard process. A child has to have the hand strength to open and shut the scissors while co-ordinating where they are cutting. Then on top of that you have the frustration of...
Leaf Chromatography Science Experiment Nanny Anita 30 September, 2019 Activities & Days Out, Crafts & Activities Last year I came across this leaf chromatography experiment from one of my favourite websites Playdough to Plato. It shows what colours make up a leaf and why they change colour in autumn. Unfortunately all the...
Q-Tip Stamping Autumn Tree Pictures Nanny Anita 25 September, 2019 Crafts & Activities, Living This year seems to have gone by in a flash. It seems like only yesterday BB and I were doing his sticky autumn tree. Once again we making our annual autumn tree, this years one is a q-tip stamping autumn tree...
Galaxy Painting Nanny Anita 23 September, 2019 Crafts & Activities, Living We’ve been having a bit of a space week this week. We had a yummy galaxy milkshake for dessert at dinner one day, and now we are making galaxy paintings. EC came home from school last term and wanted to practic...
