Thursday 21 November 2013

Nativity Christmas Tree Decorations

Here are some really easy Christmas tree decorations for your little ones to colour in. Just cut round them and put a whole-punch hole on the top to tie a string through. You can even stick 2 back-to-back to make them double sided!


Nativity Christmas Puppets


Here are some simple Nativity puppet for your little ones to colour and use to tell the Christmas story!


Just download the PDF, cut around them and, once coloured/decorated, stick a lollipop stick, coffee stirer or straw to the back! You can do the whole nativity, or just the ones you fancy!

Enjoy!


Monday 9 September 2013

Tissue paper flowers

These are really easy to make and all you need is a few bits of tissue paper and some pipe cleaners!



 POPPY
















Cut out 4 circles - they don't need to be perfect

Lay them on top of each other



Push a pipe cleaner through the middle of the circles












Twist the end of the pipe cleaner into a ball to secure it



Scrunch up the tissue paper


Open them out again to finish the flower











To make the leaves, cut out 2 rectangles of green tissue paper


Fold them in half 



Cut a leaf shape, leaving the folded edge uncut so they remain attached


Open the leaves out



Lay them in position where you would like them on the stem


And twist the pipe cleaner around them to secure them.









TULIP

To make a different type of flower, again start with 4 circles of tissue paper.

Fold the circle in half, then in half again, then again, and again!!!

Cut the wide edge in a semi-circle


open the flowers out and push the pipe cleaner through as before and make a ball to secure it


twist the pipe cleaner around the bottom of the petals 

separate the petals out and add leaves as before!

Monday 2 September 2013

Fish Mobile

To make a fish mobile you will need:
- 1 piece of card for each mobile
- cotton/thread
- sticky tape
- hole punch
- stuff to decorate it with - pens/pencils, stickers, tissue paper and glue

Download and print off the template below onto the A4 card and cut out the circle and fish. Use a hole punch or sharp scissors to make 4 holes around the circle and at the top of each fish and let the kids have some fun decorating them.

When they've finished, take a length of thread and tape it to the underneath of the circle so that it will come out of the middle when you turn it into a cone.Overlap the 2 cut edges and tape into place to make a flat cone that you can hang the fish from.

Then tie thread to each fish and hang it from the cone...TA-DA! You have a beautiful fish mobile!!!

Monday 22 July 2013

Sunny Day Crafts

Now the sun is out we've been in the garden lots and Ellie has been enjoying some outdoor crafts! Her favourites are:
  • Giant chalks  - they are big enough not to snap and kids LOVE drawing all over the patio with them! And the beauty is that they wash off really easily! It's not just my 2 year old that loves it either, my 5 and 8 year old nephews love it too!
  • Water painting - Paint brushes and a tub of water keep Ellie entertained for ages. She paints, the sun dries it, she starts again! She even enjoys washing the chalk off with the paint brushes!

Thank-You Cards to Colour

I recently made this thank you card for my daughter to colour in to say thank you for her birthday presents, and thought I would share it with you all too.

Open it with this link, go to 'file' and 'download' to print. when you do print, go to your printers 'page settings' and select 'A4 Boarder-less printing'. It's designed to be printed on A4 and then be folded in half.

Happy colouring!

p.s. I used pictures and fonts that were free on the internet, so no copyright problems!

Make and Decorate Shields


These shields are really easy to make and the kids love to decorate them with stickers and play with them after! You can make them out of card or craft foam (I prefer foam, and you can get it quite cheaply in large packs).


Download the template of the shield (there's 2 to a page) and handle and either print it straight onto coloured A4 card to cut out and use, or print it onto scrap card, cut out at a template to draw around onto foam to cut out. You can attach the handle with staples or tape to the back.



Saturday 18 May 2013

Baby Moses in the Reeds - Lift the flap craft!

We recently did the story of baby Moses at toddler group and for craft we made a lift the flap colouring page. It was pretty quick to make and the kids loved finding baby Moses hiding behind the reeds and colouring him in.





I've attached the templates below, and you can download them via the links below, so you can have a go yourself.  All you need to do is...
  • Print off the Baby Moses background template on white card or paper. There is 2 Moses's on an A4 page, so cut it in half to make 2 A5 pages. 
  • Then print the Reeds template on GREEN paper and cut out the reeds. Again there is 2 reeds on an A4 page.
  • Lay the reeds on top of Moses so he is hidden.
  • Now sticky tape along the bottom of the reeds and attach to the bottom of the Moses background so that you can open the flap to reveal Moses!
  • The kids can now colour Moses in!!

Play-dough!

We use play-dough for the craft at our toddler group quite a bit, and I'm often asked how to make it, so here is my mums play-dough recipe...enjoy!

1 cup of plain flour
1 cup of water
1/2 cup of salt
1 tablespoon of oil
1 teaspoon of cream of tartar
food colouring (you choose - use more or less to  make a stronger or paler colour)

Put everything in a saucepan and stir with a wooden spoon while heating. Keep stirring (it gets quite hard work as it thickens) until it gets to play-dough consistency, being careful not to let it burn to the bottom.

Turn it out, let it cool, then play!

If you wrap it in cling-film when not it use it will keep for a good few weeks!