Help your kids make these awesome wooden block people or vehicles courtesy of the one and only Martha Stewart.
Thanks Martha! x
creative kids – wooden blocks
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craft express – vegie stamps
This is about the quickest, easiest painting fun you can have! Don’t you remember making potato stamps as a kid? I used to LOVE it (no surprises there!).
Thanks to Crafting Green World for the tips!
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creative kids – liquid chalk paint
Most kids love a squirty bottle. Whether it’s in the bath full of bubbles, at the table full of sauce or, in this case, outside and full of chalk paint!
The recipe for paint is right here. For an extra dash of excitement, the kids can add vinegar and watch it FIZZ! This activity is great fun for kids of all ages.
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craft express – vegie stamps!
image courtesy of thisisloveforever.com
Check out the cool flower patterns created by this okra then take a look around your vegie patch or crisper in the fridge for other inspiration. I’m thinking celery could make some fun smiley faces!
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craft express – peg christmas trees
Look what we made today …
Using this stuff …
All you will need are some old boxes (any cardboard would do), a few little gems from the craft box (think pom poms, glitter, confetti, star stickers) and some wooden pegs.
Simply cut out* cardboard triangles (you can get a bit fancy here if you like), colour in or paint, glue on decorations of your choice and clip wooden peg to the bottom.
* Obviously littler ones would need assistance with cutting out but the rest is manageable for any age from toddlers to grown ups.
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craft express – loo roll snakes
We know you love some loo roll craft as much as we do so here is another fab idea to use up all those rolls!
Follow this tutorial to whip up your own googly eyed darlings, just like these.
image courtesy of http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/
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craft express – egg carton caterpillar
We have egg cartons coming out the wazooo at the moment. So I was a tad excited to find this easy, peasy project.
image courtesy of balancinghome.com
Just paint your egg carton, glue on googly eyes (which by now you’ll probably have in the craft box but, if not, just cut out white circles and add a black dot in the middle) then add curled pipe cleaners for antennae. Done!
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craft express – halloween stamping!
Although we don’t celebrate Halloween in our home I’m going to get my boys to do this activity whilst I explain the tradition a little more to them.
The beauty of potato stamps is that you can make whatever shape, pattern or image you like! Simply cut out a raised section, or dig out a section, in the shape you want. It’s really only limited by your little one’s imagination.
These jack-o-lanterns are a great starting point! Easy peasy.
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colouring in fun
Few things make my heart sing more than colouring in with my kids. It truly is one of my favourite past times. Much to my delight, my 2 year old has just started showing lots of interest in colouring, so he and my middle sized have spent the day tucked in out of the rain and adding colour to the quirky illustrations from the fabulous scrufnuts colouring books.
It’s looking like an unusually cold and wet weekend ahead for many of us so I thought I’d share a few of our favourite colouring pages. If you’d like to download them, simply click on the image and then print from the page.
courtesy of dover publications
courtesy of http://allemaalariecook.blogspot.com.au
Other stuff you might love …
french colouring book – polka dots
french colouring book – cuties
honeysticks beeswax crayons
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craft express – fingerprint art
All you’ll need for these little cuties is a stamp pad, some fingers and a pen to add detail. If you want to get a bit fancy you can add snazzy paper like the fox’s ears below. Easy peasy.
All images courtesy of Pinterest.
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