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Ghost Crafts for Kids to do at Halloween
5 Ghost Crafts for Kids to Make at Halloween Ghosts are always fun to make for Halloween. These 5 crafts for kids are perfect for creating your own spooky decorations! Have fun with these cute and spooky Ghost Crafts this Halloween! 1. Pencil Eraser Halloween Ghosts by Crafty Morning 2. Paper Plate Ghosts by Clean and Scentsible 3. Hanging Ghosts by Blog Me Mom 4. Cotton Ball Ghost by Seven Thirty Three 5. Popsicle Stick Ghosts by Glued to My Crafts Happy Halloween! Ciara xox Further Reading: 👉 You can also browse all seasonal posts in one place over on the Autumn blog archive.
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Bat Crafts for Kids – Halloween Fun!
Bat Crafts for Kids – Halloween Fun With Halloween just around the corner I have been trying lots of Halloween crafts with my children. These are some of our favourite Bat crafts! Our favourite bat crafts for kids Finger Print Bat Silhouette Craft for Kids by Crafty Morning Origami Bats by A Girl and a Glue Gun Clothespin Bat Craft by No Time for Flash Cards Hanging Bat Craft for Kids by Buggy and Buddy Bat Crafts for Preschoolers by Crafts on Sea Paper Bag Bat by I Heart Crafty Things 10 Super Fun Bat Crafts by Artsy Crafty Mom Bat Books for Kids by Fantastic Fun and Learning Pine…
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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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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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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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The Benefits of Playing with Playdough
If you are familiar with our blog then you have probably noticed that we love to make and play with Playdough. The benefits of play dough play are numerous and kids of all ages have much to gain from engaging with play dough activities. So, why should our children play with play dough? Benefits of Playdough Play: 1. Fine Motor Skill Development: great for strengthening muscle tone in little hands – squishing, squashing, rolling, flattening play dough all develop children’s muscles and encourage prewriting and other skills such as cutting with a scissors, using a tweezers, holding a pencil etc. 2. Calming and therapeutic: simply sitting and squashing and rolling a…
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Painting with Water Pistols – Outdoor Summer Fun!
We’ve been experiencing a heatwave here in recent days – stunning, hot, sunny weather, my favourite type except for snow!!!! We have been taking our activities outdoors and finding lots of fun and creative ways to play and learn in the sun! For our recent Water Themed Birthday party we bought several cheap and cheerful water pistols at a discount toy store and while I had presumed the kiddie guests would bring them home the end of the party, most didn’t (all brought their own to the party)and so now we have lots of water pistols to have fun with! Earlier in the week we put some of our leftover…
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What’s Inside the Ice-Cube? – Outdoor Summer Fun!
Number 81 on our 100 Days of Summer Bucket list is “Discover what’s inside the giant ice cube!”. Doodles and Oodles have been dying to try this out since I showed them a number of similar activities on other blogs and Pinterest! Doodles actually did this at nursery when he was 2 or 3 years old and has often referred to it since! So, yesterday as I was reading down through our bucket list and ticking off a few more items I spotted number 81 and decided that would be our next activity! What we used: basin water toy dinosaurs meat mallet kitchen utensils spades, spoons, plastic knives freezer!!!! What…
