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Match Stick Mini Rafts (Another Simple Wine Cork Craft for Kids)
Match stick mini rafts: What you need: Wine corks Paper Match sticks Elastic bands Cocktail sticks or wooden skewers Ice lolly sticks Blue tack or playdough PVA glue What you do: Attach 3 wine corks together by wrapping 2 elastic bands around the corks ensuring that the lie flat like a raft. (I had to do this for my kids) Cover the top of the raft in PVA glue Place an ice lolly stick on top of the raft, press down to ensure that it sticks. Now, cover the lolly stick in PVA glue Stick the matchsticks close together across the length of the lolly stick Leave to dry Cut…
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Ice Lolly Sticks Rafts (Simple Wine Cork Crafts for Kids)
These ice lolly sticks and wine cork rafts are so much fun and simple to make! Lollypop stick rafts: What you need: Wine corks Paper Cocktail sticks or wooden skewers Ice lolly sticks Blue tack or playdough PVA glue What you do: Place two lolly sticks slightly apart. Cover both sticks in PVA glue Place more lolly sticks across these two, press down to make sure they stick. Leave a little gap between the two middle sticks. Leave to dry. Cut out a sail from scraps of coloured paper. Pass a cocktail stick or skewer through the top and bottom of the sail. Pass the skewer through the small gap…
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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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10 Snowman Art Projects for Cold Wintry Afternoons
Fun and easy snowman art projects to keep children creative through the winter season.
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Cotton Wool Autumn Trees – Fall Art Activities for Kids
Another quick and easy Autumn/Fall art activity for kids of all ages. Continuing our theme of autumn arts and crafts, Oodles (2.5 y.o) had lots of fun with this collage activity. What we used: blue, green and brown paper cotton wool balls PVA non toxic glue paint – autumn colours glitter What we did: tear the green paper to create hills and stick to the lower half of the blue sheet. next tear the brown paper into strips to create a tree trunk and stick onto the green and blue paper. dip the cotton balls into the glue and stick all over the top of the tree trunk dab paint…
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Sunflower Handprint Art 2 – Autumn/Fall Art Activities for Kids
Sunflowers are such a cheerful flower and what better way to celebrate the ending of summer and coming of autumn with a handprint art sunflower, a perfect craft for preschoolers We love sunflowers and last week we had a lot of fun making a giant sunflower with our handprints. Today we decided to use our favourite flowers as inspiration again for a craft activity. What we used: Pre-cut card handprints Paint PVA non toxic glue Glitter Paper Plate A2 White card Stapler and staples What we did: We painted each of the pre-cut handprints with autumnal colours, sprinkled them with a little red and gold glitter and left to dry…
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Sunflowers – Handprint Art for Kids
Sunflowers are one of my favourite flowers and each year we try to grow them. We haven’t been very successful this year but still managed these lovelies in the picture below. So using these cheerful, sunny flowers as inspiration we set about our most recent art activity – again this is quick and simple and suitable for all ages from 2.5yrs up. What we used: large sheet of paper/card poster paint paint/printing tray plate pencil paint brushes What we did: Doodles (5) placed a plate on the sheet and drew around it with a pencil to make the centre of our flower He then painted a long green stem and…
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Finger Print Autumn Trees – Fall Art Activities for Kids
This is another quick and easy autumn art activity perfect for younger kids, similar to our Autumn Tree Collages, but using finger painting this time instead of collage work. What we used: poster paints paint tray blue card paint brushes What we did: We each painted a tree trunk Using our fingers we printed lots and lots of different coloured autumn leaves all over the tree Doodles and Oodles both wanted to add apples and D showed apples falling from his tree. Still using our fingers we added grass to the paintings and dotted a leaf or two on the grass. We used gold paint for some of the leaves…
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Autumn Tree Collages – Fall Art Activities for Kids
This is a very simple yet lovely autumn collage activity, suitable for all ages and both Doodles(5) and Oodles (2.5) managed this with ease. What we used: coloured paper felt autumn leaves and scraps of felt PVA non toxic glue cotton wool What we did: I encouraged the children to tear a piece of green paper to create the grass or hill for the foreground of their picture. They then ripped brown paper (we used brown sugar paper for it’s texture) into strips to make the tree trunks Using the PVA glue they arranged the paper on the blue sheet to create their grass and tree and then added the…
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Foam Painting – Painting and Printing with Shaving Foam
This is such a fun activity! It combines two of our favourites – messy play and painting! This is simple, fun and suitable for all ages from toddlers up! It has been a while since we last did this and a recent post from Left Brain Craft Brain inspired me to try it again. What we used: shaving foam (we but cheap and cheerful but does the job perfectly) paints trays (we used a baking tray and a printing tray, our second printing tray is still missing!!!!) paint brushes card What we did: Doodles sprayed some foam onto each tray Doodles and Oodles then spread the the foam over the…
