Add a little extra magic to Christmas Eve with a Christmas Eve box filled with treats. We love this family tradition. Our activity box contains everything needed to have a magical Christmas Eve.
Make and personalise a DIY snowman mug this winter. I love the simplicity of these homemade mugs and adding a name to each mug makes them feel really personalised. Have fun experimenting with different designs!
Add an extra sprinkle of magic this Christmas by making some magic reindeer food with the kids. Use our free printable magic reindeer food poems and signs to set up a reindeer food bar! Young children will love filling a bag full of oats, love and magic to feed to the reindeer on Christmas Eve.
We had fun making this handprint Christmas wreath and I love the cute poem to go with it. It's a great Christmas craft for toddlers and preschoolers and makes a cute keepsake. Our handprint wreath is now hanging on our door helping us get into the Christmas mood.
Make a cute salt dough handprint ornament to treausre forever! This adorable salt dough robin craft is easy to make using our simple salt dough ornament recipe. Whether you are looking for a Christmas or winter craft for kids this salt dough handprint ornament is perfect for babies, toddlers or preschoolers so you can make a keepsake to remember forever how little they once were.
Make adorable star photo frame ornaments using our easy salt dough ornament recipe. These Christmas salt dough ornaments look like tiny hanging photo frames on the Christmas tree. Salt dough crafts are easy enough for the youngest toddlers or preschoolers to get involved with and these salt dough Christmas ornaments make such cute keepsakes. This Christmas craft is inspired by the book 'How to Catch a Star'.
Keepsakes don't come much cuter than this adorable salt dough footprint penguin. Made from our simple salt dough recipe this is a perfect winter craft that can be treasured in years to come. We love handprint and footprint keepsakes as they are a cute way of treasuring how tiny our babies, toddlers or preschoolers hands and feet really are.
Homemade Christmas cards always make people smile. Here are 9 simple and cute Christmas card ideas that kids can make. Whether you love handprint and footprint crafts or whether you are looking for an idea easy enough for toddlers or preschoolers to make themselves there is plenty to choose from in this list.
These Christmas handprint, footprint and fingerprint keepsakes are made using an easy salt dough recipe. Using only 3 ingredients you can create adorable salt dough keepsakes that will last forever. These salt dough ornaments are easy to make and any parent or grandparent would be delighted to receive one as a gift for Christmas.
You are going to love this list of the best wooden toys for toddlers. Its that time of year again already! Christmas will be here before we know it! This gift ideas list full of wooden toddler toys is perfect for little girls or boys. We love these quality wooden toys which will last your toddler well into their preschool years.
Make soldier pegs for the nursery rhyme 'The Grand Old Duke of York'. A simple craft that can be used for working on fine motor skills. Use the soldier pegs as a prop by moving them up and down the hill as you sing the nursery rhyme.
Make beautiful roses by printing with celery stalks. This simple art technique is perfect for all ages and the resulting rose prints are really effective. Print the rose shapes in a ring and this craft goes perfectly with the nursery rhyme Ring O Ring O Roses. Alternatively these rose prints make a great valentines craft, maybe printed onto a card, or as wrapping paper?
Make your own Remembrance Day poppy craft for kids using a potato print! Once dry add a craft stick, a leaf and a little bit of tape and your poppy will be ready to wear with pride! This easy poppy craft is perfect for preschoolers upwards.
Today is the start of world nursery rhyme week. A different nursery rhyme has been chosen each day from the 9th- 13th of November. Have you signed up for all the free resources and nursery rhyme activity ideas?
Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick sick sick. This pretend play activity is perfect for acting out the nursery rhyme "Miss Polly had a dolly" and role playing doctors and nurses. The kids loved using stickers to make our dolly sick.
We recently had a lovely last minute family trip to Birmingham. There are so many places to visit and attractions for families in the area. We stayed for 2 nights and were really spoilt for choice for family friendly activities.
Make a fairy door (or elf door!) from craft sticks. This magical five minute craft couldn't be simpler. Place your fairy door outside in your garden or along your skirting board and see what magic your little one will dream up.
This simple magic milk science experiment really is magical to watch. Add food colouring to milk plus one simple 'magical' ingredient and watch as the colours explode and swirl about like fireworks.
Horsie, horsie don't you stop, just let your feet go clippety clop. For this weeks rhyme time we have made a simple hobby horse. Using cardboard tubes and our FREE PRINTABLE this craft is simple to set up and perfect for all ages from toddlers upwards.
A huge collection of 35+ bear themed art, craft, food and activity ideas to suit toddlers, preschoolers and school aged kids. There is something for everyone in this collection which has been spilt into 4 areas: activities based on the book 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt', polar bear activities, activities based on the story 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and teddy bear themed activities.
Arrrr...me hearties! Kids will love being a pirate for the day and making their own pirate treasure chest craft! This easy egg carton craft for kids is perfect for toddlers and preschooler to make and then use in imaginative play. An egg carton treasure chest makes a great prop for pretend play or it could be used to collect treasure during a treasure hunt!
Spoon puppets are great for story telling and pretend play. For todays craft we made Goldilocks and The Three Bears puppets from wooden spoons. They are really easy and cheap to make and we had lots of fun retelling and making up our own versions of the story with them.
Make a handprint spider to frighten Little Miss Muffet away. This 5 minute nursery rhyme craft can be used for re-enacting the nursery rhyme 'Little Miss Muffet'. Spider activities are always fun for kids to make especially during Autumn and Winter.
How do you recycle cardboard rolls? Make swords of course! A perfect craft for little boys (and girls!) cardboard swords are simple to make and prefect for pretend play.
Paper cup pom pom shooters only take minutes to make but are loads of fun! All you need is a paper cup, a balloon and some pom poms!
Are you looking for fun rock painting ideas for kids? You are going to love these stone faces made from printable face parts! As well as being fun this rock painting faces craft also doubles up as a feelings and emotions activity for toddlers and preschoolers (and older kids too!).
Humpty Dumpty Egg Weebles are a quick and fun accompaniment to the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty'. Will you be able to knock your Humpty Dumpty weeble off his wall or will he stand back up again?
Microwave puffy paint is totally magical! They are so much fun to paint with and are easily made using just flour, salt and water. The 'magic' takes place when this recipe is placed into a microwave and puffs up in seconds to create beautiful 3D art work. What a fun painting technique for kids!
Let kids have fun creating and playing with a dinosaur small world in a box. Add a sensory element to your child's play by adding cloud dough.
Kids will love collecting nature and using it to make clay faces on trees. Spending a sunny afternoon outdoors making nature faces is so much fun and perfect for all ages. This is outdoor art at it's BEST!
There is something about playing with bubble snake blowers that always gets the kids excited! Playing with bubbles is one of the best summer activity for kids of all ages as it is low prep but lots of fun! Making a bubble snake maker is so easy following our simple instructions and it will amaze the kids. My kids have done this activity as toddlers, preschoolers and now they are older and they have loved it every time.
Make a set of Nature Paint Brushes and have fun indulging in a little nature art painting for kids. This outdoor art is all about the process. It is such a fun process art idea for kids that love being outdoors and all things nature!
Do your kids like playing with their food? This yummy spider snack is great for re-enacting the nursery rhyme 'Incy Wincy Spider'.
This process art activity is a fun, messy accompaniment to the popular nursery rhyme 'The Wheels on the Bus'.
I'm an author! I am so so excited to finally be able to share with you a book which I have been part of creating. 'Learn with Play' has been written by 90+ authors and is full of an amazing selection of crafts and activities for young children.
This edible monster maths game is a great way of encouraging children to count and recognise numbers. We had lots of fun choosing numbers, icing biscuits and counting eyes. Our monster biscuits were yummy and they made a great gift for daddy from his little monsters. This fun maths activity is part of the 'Cool maths for cool kids' series hosted by 'Peakle Pie.
Inspired by the nursery rhyme 'Five Little Ducks' we recycled an egg carton and turned it into a pond small world. This simple craft was great for encouraging Harry to re enact the nursery rhyme and engage in imaginative play.
Help the kids make their own superhero coaster gift for dad! What a great Father's Day craft idea for kids to let dad know he is their favourite superhero. Toddlers and preschoolers will love making superhero handprints and turning them into a useful handmade gift for dad.
We made a spiderman handprint, hulk handprint, batman handprint and TMNT handprint, but this craft would work well for any superhero your child chooses. We even have a free printable superhero gift tag that can be added to this fun Fathers Day gift idea saying 'You are my favourite superhero'.
We made a spiderman handprint, hulk handprint, batman handprint and TMNT handprint, but this craft would work well for any superhero your child chooses. We even have a free printable superhero gift tag that can be added to this fun Fathers Day gift idea saying 'You are my favourite superhero'.
Spiderman handprints are so simple to make and a craft little boys (and girls!) will love. These superhero handprints are perfect for fathers day cards or would look amazing on a canvas hanging on the wall. They also look great turned into gifts like our superhero coasters.
Got a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan? These Ninja Turtle handprints are really simple to make and look super cute!
Help your child turn their handprints into Hulk! Superhero fans will love this simple craft which would look great framed, on a Fathers day card or made into a gift (like our superhero coasters).
Batman handprints are the perfect craft for little superhero fans. Follow these simple instructions to create a keepsake using your child's tiny handprints. These prints would be great on a super dad fathers day card.
This fishing number game is a perfect activity to accompany the nursery rhyme '1, 2, 3, 4, 5 once I caught a fish alive'. Kids will have fun singing, counting, and ordering numbers as they catch the fish.
Spring or Summer is the perfect time to get outside and make a flower petal suncatcher. Toddlers and preschoolers will love collecting nature and using it to make their own patterns or pictures. The paper plate in this craft makes a simple and effective frame for the artwork.
Get outside this summer and enjoy using the nature around you to have a go at some of these nature art and craft ideas for kids. Toddlers, preschoolers and older kids will all enjoy getting creative with nature whilst enjoying some sunshine. We have put together a list of 20 fun nature art ideas to try this summer. We have included craft ideas using stones, shells, sticks, flowers and leaves.
Make farm animal story stones to accompany the popular nursery rhyme 'Old MacDonald had a Farm'. Print off the free printable farm animals, stick them to stones and use them to help toddlers and preschoolers choose which animal to sing about in the nursery rhyme or to help them make up simple farmyard stories.
Make a cute ladybird (ladybug) footprint keepsake to display in a frame or for the front of a greeting card. This Spring or Summer footprint craft was made using a baby footprint, but it would be a great art activity for toddlers or preschoolers.
Help your toddler or preschooler make a ladybird craft and learn to count with this free printable number game. This leaf and ladybird (ladybug) number hunt activity makes learning exciting for little ones and gets them outdoors in the fresh air. After going on a number hunt children can order the numbered leaves and match them to ladybirds with the same number of spots.
Upcycle an old table and use blackboard paint to create the perfect drawing space for your toddler or preschooler. Making a DIY chalkboard table is really easy following our simple instructions. Kids will love being able to be creative as they scribble, draw and write on a table. Creating a chalk board table it is such a quick and cheap project, it can be ready to be used within 24 hours.
This bakers shop imaginative play activity is based around the nursery rhyme, 'Five Currant Buns'. Children will love becoming bakers to make their own pretend currant buns to sell in a bakers shop. It is a great song for helping children learn to count and for introducing them to the concept of money.
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