Drawing Prompts for Kids Nanny Anita 19 June, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living I love to draw, I am not particularly good at it, but I do enjoy it. Over the last year both EC and YC have really started to enjoy sketching. As a kind of cross between a busy bag and a drawing exercise I ha...
Body Tracing Art Activity Nanny Anita 5 June, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living When I was training at Norland one of my placements was at a nursery. We would often get a huge roll of paper and draw around the children. I haven’t done this body tracing art activity for years, so I though...
Paper Plate Hot Air Balloons Anita Flynn 29 May, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living Aren’t these paper plate hot air balloons cute? I’ve wanted to hang something in the playroom for ages. We used to have a mobile up, but it came down when we redecorated last year. Make sure you follow my pa...
Pulled String Art Nanny Anita 22 May, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living I have seen pulled sting art floating around on the internet for a while now. It’s pretty simple to do and creates some unique pictures. I did wonder if BB would be able to take part in it, but he did just fine...
Paint Scrape Art Nanny Anita 15 May, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living Paint scrape art is a fun process in which children can make their own pieces of abstract art. It is such an easy one to do that even little ones can get involved. BB loved painting this way. In fact he sat doi...
Melted Crayon Lanterns Nanny Anita 6 May, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living If you have ever seen Disney’s movie Tangled, you will know that lanterns play a huge part of it. Disney know how popular they are and have incorporated a lantern parade into their Tangle themed restaurant onbo...
God’s Eye Craft Nanny Anita 1 May, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living If your children has ever been to summer camp chances are they have made a God’s eye before. And with summer camp season just around the corner I thought I would do it with my charges. I must admit when I worke...
Oil and Water Marbled Eggs Nanny Anita 8 April, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living Out of all the egg dying technique out there, I have actually mastered the simple egg dye. It took a few years of tweaking, but I am now pretty good at it. This year we have taken that simple idea and have adde...
Shaving Foam Dyed Eggs Nanny Anita 1 April, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living I have a very long history with egg dying failures. I was rather dubious about doing this shaving foam dyed eggs craft as it is the sort of thing that never seems to work for me. My first few attempts didn’t wo...
Hama Bead Easter Eggs Nanny Anita 27 March, 2019 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living As a child I loved using Hama beads. My mum and I were talking about this just before Christmas, and then she surprised me with a huge tub of Hama beads as a present. Now that I have about 26,000 + beads (yes, ...
