Get into the Christmas spirit and decorate your home with these fabulous DIY Christmas Crafts that we have found on Pinterest.Cupcake Wrapper Trees
These are so super cute and can be lots of fun to make. You can teach your little ones about fractions in the process, folding up each cupcake wrapper a little smaller to create the tree effect.
We recently hosted a Christmas Craft Event on our Facebook page. If you missed it, make sure you head over and follow us to stay updated. Here are the 11 Christmas craft ideas we shared.
Jo French shares the magic of a book with no words and what it has to offer kids.I love to read to my kids. I love words. I love how they flow and connect and the stories they tell. I also, at times, enjoy the magic that can happen when books don’t have words. Somehow reading a wordless book together can spark the imagination in ways that a book with text does not. This was the case for my sons and I when we read the magical ‘Return’. ‘Return’ is the third book in the ‘Journey’ trilogy by Aaron Becker but the story can certainly be read alone.
Get in the festive spirit and craft these gorgeous paddle pop reindeer ornaments for your Christmas tree. This is a great activity that your toddler will love helping out with. Make sure you supervise them with the hot glue gun, or you take control and get them to do the sticking. You can make lots of these little guys in one go, changing between different coloured paddle pop sticks and different coloured pom pom noses to make each one unique.
There are so many different ways you can engage your kids in sensory play, and this spice painting activity is quick and easy using things you already have at home.We all know how much fun painting can be for babies and kids: the messiness, the creativeness, the freedom and their joy in the finished products. You can add to their sensory experience by encouraging little ones to dip their fingers into the paint and use that to complete their artwork. For older children, you can engage their sense of smell with this great activity: spice paint.
Sick of buying a new toy each week, only to see it discarded in the corner of the room after five minutes’ play? Here are 4 simple ways to entertain your child.It can be so hard thinking of new ways to entertain your little one each day. No matter how many toys you seem to buy them, the wrapping always seems to be the favourite – and even that only holds their interest for a couple of minutes.
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