Arts and crafts projects with kids for indoor and outdoors fun and learning. Also includes nature crafts.
When the daisies start opening up and appearing in the grass, a lovely rite of childhood is to make crowns, necklaces and bracelets with daisy chains. After watching girls making chains of wild flowers in the playground, my daughter told me she was going to show me how to make a simple daisy chain. Of […]
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Last winter I found a cluster of oak galls on a tree in the Ashdown Forest as well as on the ground underneath. They were brown, hard and each had a small exit hole in them. I collected some of them and stored them at home in a sealed container. I first thought they were
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It’s very rare to see a dormouse but now we have two in our house. Not the real furry ones, but wood ones that Luce and Theo made. When I think of these little mammals, the image of the sleeping dormouse in Alice in Wonderland instantly pops into my head. Luce and Theo not only
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I must share a lovely arts and crafts Spring activity we recently learnt during a visit to Wakehurst Place: how to make paper Daffodils. As part of the half term holidays, Kew’s countryside estate had provided indoors activities for kids to learn about flowers and nature. This included an informal mini botany lesson. Luce and Theo examined
I’ve always been curious how pop-up books are designed, more so when my daughter received as a gift the stunning Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland adaptation by Robert Sabuda. Now I’m one step closer since my kids have learnt how to make pop-up cards. I uncovered over 40 different free templates for pop-up cards with detailed instructions. And
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My kids know the names and order of the planets in the solar system, but I decided I needed to teach them how to compare planet sizes. I wanted to answer their continual questions. ”How big is Earth compared to Jupiter?” “Is Earth bigger than Mars?” “Which is the biggest planet?” And so on. My
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