12 beautiful tulip crafts

We are enjoying some gorgeous spring sunshine this week, and to celebrate, we have some beautiful tulip crafts for your kids to make. You can create your own tulips at home with: paper origami coloured card recycled egg cartons and buttons painted cardboard tubes recycled cardboard and wool/yarn handprints, potato prints and fork prints Here…

Arrr-some pirate crafts

International Talk Like a Pirate Day has been celebrated on September 19 every year since 2002.  It was created by John Baur and Mark Summers in the USA. Fun facts about pirates: Guacamole was invented in 1679 by a pirate, William Dampier, before he became a round the world explorer. The Jolly Roger flag, which…

12 creative clock crafts

These creative clock crafts are great for teaching kids how to tell the time, as well as counting and number recognition. When teaching kids how to tell the time, they need to learn: time concepts - morning, afternoon, evening, midday/noon, midnight, o'clock, quarter past/to, half past that the numbers and lines on the clock represent…

Amazing alphabet activities

With these amazing alphabet activities, your kids can learn how to make letter shapes, match upper case and lower case letters, identify initial letter sounds, and put letters together to make words. You can make alphabet letters with: pipe cleaners fabric scraps paper and cardboard stickers, markers, pencils and paint mud, shells and rocks wood…

DIY wooden blocks

You don't need to spend a lot of money on wooden blocks for your kids to play with - you can paint and decorate your own!  You can decorate plain wooden blocks with: liquid watercolours and food dyes paint felt tip, chalk or paint markers crayons chalk paint and chalk stickers and washi tape fabric…

Delightful drawing prompts for kids

Drawing is a fantastic, simple, fun activity that kids can do, anywhere, anytime - especially when they might be getting bored or cranky.  All they need is some simple art supplies and an idea of what to draw.  If they find it hard to come up with an idea, drawing prompts can give them a…

Creative self portraits for kids

Self portraits are a great way for kids to express their own unique personality and creativity. They can also be used to illustrate themselves as superheroes, mermaids or other imaginative characters. Self portraits can be just faces, where kids focus on their different facial features, like the colour and shape of their eyes. as well…