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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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Valentine’s Cupid Crafts for Kids
5 Valentine’s Day Cupid Crafts Cupid’s Arrows Valentine’s Day Craft – Life is a Party Valentine’s Arrows and Quiver – A Night Owl Cupid’s Arrow Pretzel Treats – One Little Project Valentine Cupid’s Arrow Craft – Craftaholics Anonymous Valentine’s Day Cupid’s Arrows Pencil Toppers – Momdot Happy Valentine’s Day! Ciara xx
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Toilet Rolls and Cotton Wool Snowmen – A Preschool Winter Craft
Cotton wool and toilet roll snowmen – a perfect craft for preschoolers and toddlers! Much to our disappointment we have had no snow yet this year – there’s a small possibility of some in the next day or two! So we have been making do with reading about snow in our winter book collection and these super cute snowmen were inspired by some of the fun books we have been sharing recently. Toilet Rolls and Cotton Wool Snowmen – A preschool Winter Craft What you need: toilet rolls cotton wool scraps of ribbon or fabric (we used ribbon and cut up some old tshirts googly eyes coloured paper pva glue…
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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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(Kids) Green Gloop Messy Play – St Patrick’s Day Fun
Messy Play Alert! Sticking with our St. Patrick’s Day theme we decided to enjoy some outdoor messy play with Green Gloop today! Spring has finally arrived after months of horrendous storms and we have been making the most of the good weather and getting out as much as possible. We even managed a trip to the beach yesterday. It was a gloriously sunny Spring day – cold(approx. 7 degrees Celcius) but calm and clear. Doodles (4 ½) and Oodles(2) had so much fun all wrapped up building sandcastles! So, today I decided that it was a perfect afternoon for some messy play. I cleaned out the sand and water tray…
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(Kids) Gloriously green play dough fun- St Patrick’s Day Festivities
St Patrick’s Day is Monday, 17th March. It’s our national day here in Ireland. It’s a weekend of fun and frolics and a celebration of all things Irish. It also means a day off school and work! In preparation for the weekend ahead we’ve been having a little fun with some St Patrick’s Day themed activities. Today’s fun included exploring with green home-made play dough and very messy outdoor antics with gloop! First thing on the agenda was to make the play dough. Usually I let the children make it themselves but we were a little short on time today as we had a trip to the library scheduled, so…
