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Wine Cork Mini Rafts – Simple Pirate Ships
Wine cork mini rafts are a great, fun craft for kids for anytime of the year. They are especially great for summer creativity and water play but also make a really super rainy day activity. If you follow us on Instagram you may have noticed that I like a glass of wine every now and again (ahem J )and I regularly save the corks for craft projects as well as for free play with loose pieces. A really simple wine cork craft is these little rafts. I will be sharing a number of wine cork crafts over the coming weeks for both kids and adults so get saving your corks!…
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Marble Painting – More Rainy Day Messy Art Fun!
Another rainy day meant another afternoon of messy art fun! Today we used our marbles to create fantastic works of art and most importantly had a lot of fun doing it! What we used: marbles paint trays (we used a printing tray and a lid of a shoe box – couldn’t find my 2nd printing tray!!!!) card cheap and cheerful frames from Ikea basin of soapy water What we did: We placed a piece of card onto each tray and squirted some paint onto the card Doodles and oodles practiced with one marble first in order to get used to rolling the marble around the tray through the paint. They…
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Bubble Painting with Straws – Indoor Messy Art Fun, Perfect for a Rainy Day
Today we had a really thundery afternoon, with lots of heavy rain downpours – a perfect day for messy art. I had been planning on doing some bubble painting with straws for awhile now as I love to do this in school and I knew that Doodles and Oodles would absolutely love it! Little did I know that we would have the messiest fun we have had in a long time! Originally my planned activity was along the lines of these great activities from Nurture Store and Meet The Dubiens . However, our afternoon of creativity took on a life of it’s own and this is what we got up to!…
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Summer Butterfly Collages: An Invitation to Create – using materials as a stimulus
I love to wander around “Euro” or “Pound” shops looking out for bits and pieces to use in art projects or play activities. On one such trip recently I found these card butterfly cut outs. I’m not a huge fan of using templates and cut outs but I find if they are used in the right way they can be very useful for creative process art projects. Often I use some sort of a stimulus for our art activities – a book, an item, a picture, or even a piece of music. I also use the actual art materials as a stimulus, which is what I did for this…
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Print Making – A Simple, Step by Step Introductory Guide to Print Making with Children
Over the years I have given several art courses for teachers, offering ideas for the classroom. I recently came across some of my old files and they got me thinking about some of the most successful and fun courses I have facilitated. One of them was a course I gave in Print making for teachers of Primary School children (ages 4-12). These activities are great for the classroom but they are also really easy to do at home with little ones. Here’s my step by step introductory guide to Print Making – Have Fun! Equipment: *items in bold are essentials O Acetate sheets O Masking tape O Rollers O Printing…
