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St Patrick’s Day Crown – a fine motor and cutting skills craft for preschool
St. Patrick’s Day Crown This is a great little craft for preschoolers-working on fine motor skills and cutting skills! This is so easy to make and is a fun way to use all those stickers that are for sale in discount stores for St Patrick’s Day at the moment (my kids always insist on buying stickers for every event or occasion!) My little girl (3) had a lot of fun making this earlier today! Materials: green card stapler stickers green wool glue glitter What you do: cut a zig zag pattern on a strip of card long enough to go around the child’s head. stick festive stickers like these shamrocks…
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Dancing Skeletons – Cotton Bud Skeletons
Dancing Cotton Bud Skeletons – a great preschool Halloween and/or Science activity! If you follow us on Facebook then you may have seen this activity on our page last week! It is a super easy activity but lots of fun and really effective. I have used this in school both for Halloween and science! What you need: – white cotton buds or straws – black paper or card – pva glue or any child friendly glue – white chalk – googly eyes (optional) What to do: – draw an upside down triangle to skull shape with the white chalk – using the cotton buds start to create a skeleton shape…
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5 Autumn /Fall Books for Preschoolers
These 5 beautiful picture books about Autumn are my little girl’s favourites at the moment. We have a book rack in our kitchen that we use to display seasonal books and since I took out all of our Autumn and Halloween themed books last week she has been fascinated by these five in particular. Our 5 Favourite Autumn Picture Books for Toddlers and Preschoolers Millie-Mae in Autumn – Natalie Marshal: This is a stunningly beautiful board book, in my opinion. It is described as a touch-and-learn book and its glittery and shiny details throughout really do encourage children to interact with the book. What’s perfect about this book is that…
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Halloween Playdough – A Ghoulish Invitation to Play and Create!
Playdough provides children with endless possibilities to play and create as well as developing all sorts of physical and cognitive skills. As Halloween is not a million miles off, I thought it was time to make some Halloween inspired playdough and invite my little munchkins to get creepily creative!!!!!! After Christmas, Halloween is my favourite holiday! Mind you, I love to celebrate and decorate for every holiday and festival throughout the year!!!! However, being a teacher this is usually the first holiday of the year that we really get to focus on and get creative with and as a result I have built up a tonne of resources and ideas…
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Hedgehogs – Leaf and Paper Collages – Autumn / Fall Preschool Craft
Hedgehogs always remind me of Autumn, and these collages are a lovely, simple preschool Fall activity to celebrate the season. We have a hedgehog who regularly helps himself to our cat’s food at night before hibernating for the winter, so my kiddies were delighted to create their own paper version of “Hedgy”, our little prickly buddy! We have lots of other autumn activities for you to try in our Seasonal section of the blog. What we used: card – flesh coloured and blue sugar paper in autumnal colours glue sticks leaves buttons crayons scissors What we did: I helped the children to draw a rough shape of a hedgehog using…
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Scarecrow Collages – Autumn / Fall Crafts for Kids
Scarecrow collages are a great Autumn/Fall craft for younger children. Hope you have as much fun making these as we did! Continuing with our autumn theme we have been looking at scarecrows and using a variety of materials to make collages. My little girl Oodles (2.5yo) and I made these but they are suitable for preschoolers and children in the younger classes at school. What we used: variety of coloured paper and card straw buttons googly eyes PVA non toxic glue paper plates pre-cut face templates fake sheafs of wheat stickers stapler and staples What we did: We started by gluing some straw onto the top of a paper plate…
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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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Foam Dough – Squishy Squashy Sensory Fun!
Shaving foam is a fantastic material to use in a variety of ways in sensory play. My little girl Oodles loves to sit in her mini paddling pool in her swim suit play with the foam and toys. We have created gorgeous paint foam prints and of course there is foam dough. What we used: 1 cup of cornflour/cornstarch 2 cups of shaving foam paint What we did: Doodles and Oodles measured out the cornflour and added it to their bowls D poured the shaving foam into each bowl – O couldn’t quite manage to press the nozzle They chose their colour of choice and squeezed it into…
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Cloud Dough with a Fizzy Surprise – Sensory Play with a Science Twist!
We love to experiment with sensory play, recipes and doughs. Doodles loves doing experiments and he asked if we could do a fizzy one today. Oodles wanted to make dough so I decided we could try and combine both. What we used: 1 cup of flour 1 cup of baby oil food colouring 1 tbsp bicarbonate of soda vinegar What we did: I gave Doodles and Oodles the ingredients and encouraged them to measure out what they needed by themselves. They then mixed the ingredients in a bowl before emptying onto the table to mix with their hands as if making breadcrumbs They loved the texture were delighted to see…
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Fizzy Glittery Playdough / Gloop – Super Sensory Fun!
A group of fantastic bloggers from the Kid Blogger Network (of which I am a member) are running a year long linky called “12 Months of Sensory Dough”. Each month there is a theme for the dough and bloggers are encouraged to experiment with the theme and share their experiences (good and bad). We love sensory play and make a lot of playdough and love to experiment with new recipes. So, as it was raining heavily this morning I decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to experiment with fizzy dough, this months theme!!!! The Bloggers hosting this fantastic project are: Lemon Lime Adventures Look! We’re Learning! Glittering Muffins…
