Cheerio Bird Feeder

A nice little activity to do with little ones, good for developing their fine motor skills and hand eye co-ordination, and of course they love the idea of the birds coming along and eating the cheerios. All you need are cheerios,pipe cleaners and some string/ribbon for hanging.

Silk Dyed Easter Eggs

Crafting With Children

With half term coming up soon, here are some crafting ideas they will love:) Nothing that requires lots of money to be spent on materials. The heart garland is actually made using those paint colour charts you get for free in diy stores like Homebase! The giraffe picture is taken from a magazine the child has created a picture to go with it using their imagination. If you take a look at my pinterest craft board you can click on the images for more info and tutorials for most of them.

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A.K.A it's nice weather for ducks here today. Jessica asked if we could make a model giraffe this morning. Our crafting efforts usually consist of spreading sheets of paper with as much glue, sequins, paint, and other random items as we can find, which gets a bit repetitive as you can imagine. As it turned out we had an old amazon cardboard box, an egg box, some googly eyes and some paints from the cupboard (we used gold as we didn't have any yellow available and brown). Now I don't want you to get too jealous but here's how he turned out:

I'm sure you've always wanted to make your very own cardboard giraffe model (that even stand up on his own can you believe) so here's how to do it:

You'll need: 

Strong card board

One egg box

2 googly eyes

Paints

• Cut four equal lengths of strong card for legs.
• Cut one longer piece of card for the giraffes neck.
• Fold each of the pieces of card (4 legs, 1 neck) twice length ways and tape down into a rough triangle shape.
• Tape neck and legs to the top of an egg box.
• Cut out one section from the bottom of an egg box for the giraffes face and stick to the neck.
• Paint yellow (or gold!)
• Glue on two googly eyes.
• Paint brown patches.

Easy No Cook Play Dough Recipe

2 cups of plain flour
1 cup of salt
4 tblspoons cream of tartar
3 tblspoons olive/sunflower oil
2 cups of boiling water
2 capfuls of food colouring

• Sift the flour, salt and cream of tartar into a mixing bowl. 
• Mix the oil water and food colouring and add to the dry ingredients. 
• Mix with a spoon until it forms a ball and then knead for a couple of minutes until it becomes soft and malleable.

Simple as that. Keeps for ages in the fridge in a sealed container.