Category: Craft Tips

Paint some stones and pebbles with your child. I have seen huge painted rocks too! Red acrylic paint (avoid oil based) and once dried, a black permanent marker pen (note: make sure you watch your child and take away the marker afterwards – not a great play pen!). These ladybugs were made by toddlers  –…

Spring is in the air! Travel round your garden with a little basket and collect flowers with your child. Find some heavy books (phone directories are great!). Place greaseproof paper between pages and lay out flowers. Close shut and wait, in a month take a peak and you have pressed and dried flowers ready to…

Moving pictures are a wonderful and simple craft activity to complete with children. All you need is a piece of card or paper (one large and one small), crayons, a stick from the garden or icy pole craft stick, sticky tape and scissors. First think of something that moves, children love things from nature: butterflies,…

Paper snowflakes   These look great on your window or little ones hanging on branches in a pot on your seasonal table. A little note, make a special one on your child’s birthday, lay over the cake, sprinkle icing sugar over the top, lift it off and there will be a lovely sugar pattern on top…

Autumn – I love this season and it is partially lovely for simple natural craft. Leaf Rubbings are so much fun with young children. Go to a park with lovely autumn leaves, or for a local nature walk, and find a big autumn tree. Choose some lovely big leaves with big veins. Once home, turn…

Making simple boats from nature If you find seedpods, gather and store for ‘boat’ fun craft! Simply fill with clay or playdough, make a sail from a twig and coloured paper, assemble and you have a boat for the seasonal table and play. Even simpler, from nature collect bark, sticks and leaves, assemble to make…