Spring Flower Activities for Toddlers

This week Little Miss B has been working on some spring flower crafts, whilst her big brothers have been busy in school. She had such good fun with them over the school mid-term break last week and she’s really been missing them this week, so I’ve been trying to keep her extra busy to distract … Read more

Dinosaur Shape Fuzzy Felt Fun

  Dinosaur Fuzzy Felt Felt This week my middle son turns 5 and as he is a huge Dinosaur fan, his little sister has made him a lovely home-made card with a big dinosaur on the front of it. My initial idea had been to cut out different shapes from coloured paper and use these … Read more

Bubble-wrap Giraffe Paintings for kids to make

Bubble Wrap Giraffe Paintings

We LOVE giraffes in our house and after a recent trip to the Zoo, we just had to make some with our favourite Junk Art material Bubble Wrap and make some cool Giraffe Paintings. We enjoyed a trip to Dublin Zoo just before we went away on our holidays last week.  My mum was over for a few … Read more

Bubblewrap shape printing activity for toddlers and preschoolers

  We love to re-use ordinary household items in our arts and crafts. At the weekend we purchased a new set of wine glasses. They came wrapped in bubblewrap and were placed into a cardboard box for us to bring home safely.  Packaging materials are great to re-use in kids arts and crafts activities and … Read more

An old classic…Sponge Painting!

Arts and crafts don’t always have to involve specialist materials. Sometimes all you need to do is look around and see what you already have at home.  It’s definitely worth getting into the habit of saving some of your empty cereal boxes, toilet roll tubes, plastic bottles and bottle tops for arts and crafts projects.Ordinary household … Read more