Egg Carton Sharks
Egg cartons are great for junk modelling, and over the past few months we have been collecting lots of packaging and creating lots of things with them. One of the things we have been making is a family of egg c...
Agamograph Pictures
The first time I came across agamograph pictures was when I was in year 5 and I boy in my class brought one in that he had made. I always found them fascinating after that. Just in case you are wondering what a...
Make Rainbow Fish By Painting With Celery Sticks
I think that most people will have, at some point, printed using potatoes. It is such a classic children’s craft, however, the majority of people leave it there and forget to explore printing using other vegeta...
How to Make Clay Owls
We had the clay out the other day, there is something very calming about using clay, it is a great stress reliever. YC was making her own thing and I made clay owls. They are a pretty simple clay craft that you...
Construction Sensory Tray
Summer is a great time to be playing with water and running around outside. Unfortunately for us, water play and running around is off of the books at the moment. Instead of having sensory trays with water and ...
How to Make Cardboard Frisbees
When I was making the bean bag toss game I saved up the cardboard disks that I cut out from it. As I was getting ready to throw them out I suddenly thought that they would make pretty good cardboard Frisbees. A...
Easy Origami Koala Bookmark
Origami is great craft; it doesn’t require much to do it and it is fab for developing fine motor stills. Now that everything has gone to online classes (including the Scouts), we have been asking the kids to ...
How to Make Bean Bags
Bean bags are such a versatile piece of equipment. They are can be used in games that help develop gross motor skills and balance. We have been using ours in a bean bag toss target game. Plus they are very easy...
10 Minute to Win it Party Games
Minute to win it games are simple team games that are normally timed. They make really fun party games or even for a family games night. We did ours for a lock down birthday party.
Make sure you follow my ac...
Pasta Butterflies
A few years ago we turned some pasta shells into giant pasta snails. Now we are moving onto farfalle pasta and making pasta butterflies. I’ve been a bit wary about doing crafts and activities that use food at t...
