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    Toilet Rolls and Cotton Wool Snowmen – A Preschool Winter Craft

    January 12, 2015 /

    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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    Do you want to build a snowman?  10 super fun playdough (snowdough) snowman activities to enjoy this winter! We had a lot of fun making snowmen with our playdough yesterday!  We got our inspiration for this activity from Nicola, the fantastic blogger at Multicraftingmummy!  Here’s a quick peek at what we did plus 10 more fab activities for you try from some amazing bloggers. Our recipe: 1 cup cornflour/cornstarch 1 cup salt 1/2 cup fabric conditioner a little water mix it all together in a food processor and have fun! What we did: I made a large batch of plain (white) dough and then smaller batches of black, orange and…

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