Activities, crafts and science experiments for toddlers, pre-schoolers and beyond!
Both of our boys enjoy arts and crafts, whether building fantastic constructions or adding a dash of colour to the latest masterpiece . Our pre-schooler enjoys cutting, glueing and painting, and has managed to produce some quite respectable items. Even our toddler gets in on the act, although it can have a tendancy to turn into messy play! We also enjoy the time spent helping them, as well as making examples of our own to show them what to do – it can get a bit competitive at times!
Lactation cookies, for those yet to encounter this phenomina, are essentially a selection of ingredients commonly held to promote lactation baked into a sweet, oaty, cookie form. Typical active ingredients held to have a...
With Halloween fast approaching, the boys have certainly noticed all the pumpkins, skeletons and spooky decorations around the place. We haven’t made it to a pick your own pumpkin place yet, but I decided...
The boys are at the stage where they love making things, and have just enough attention span to accept that there might be stages to their creations. However, when I’ve tried salt dough...
The summer holidays have arrived! The boys and I love going out and about, but we are exhausted too so a few quiet mornings at home are also helpful for us. My toddler (22...
Painting with ice cubes. Such a simple activity, and so much fun to do when the weather is hot and sunny. For this activity, I simply put water and food colouring into an ice...
This craft combined dinosaurs, painting and messy play. My toddler loves painting, but rarely actually with the paintbrushes. He loves exploring different ways to apply paint to surfaces (not always desirable ones!). So I...
It had recently been my birthday, and I was about to recycle some birthday cards. But it struck me that some of the designs were really pretty and it seemed a shame to put...
This activity was a great combination of learning colours, learning colour mixing, and having good fun squishing paint. I got three clear plastic ziplock bags, and filled one with red and yellow paint, one...
My toddler (currently 20m) loves to have his feet and hands painted and make pictures with them. It’s fun to think of new pictures to make, but it’s also great for him to explore...
This was a very simple rocket craft we did for ‘space week’ using coloured card, scissors, glue and stickers. I made a sample one (literally took a few minutes), and then cut out the...
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