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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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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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Sparkly Winter Art Based on Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara
The sparkly beauty of frost and ice is the perfect inspiration for a winter art project and when paired with the magical book Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara you have all the perfect elements for a wintery masterpiece!Now that the decorations have all been packed away and the children are back at school the real winter has begun! Personally I love this time of year. I love the cold, crisp weather (not too fond of the rainy days though!). I love opening the curtains most mornings to find a blanket of sparkly frost covering the garden and surrounding fields. I bought the book Jack Frost by Kazuno Kohara a few…
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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…
