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Easter craft ideas

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Need a last minute Easter craft idea? Here are some of our favourites from our Easter archive.

daffodil craft

Daffodil bunting made from egg boxes

decorating easter eggs

Fun designs for child decorated Easter eggs

cress heads

Crazy haired eggheads

easter card ideas

Sweet but simple ideas for Easter cards

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Recipes for dying eggs and the rules to play egg bowling

easter rabbit craft

A family of Easter bunnies and a flower meadow for them to live in.

easter nest cakes

Our recipe for crispy Easter nest cakes.

And join us tomorrow when we’re hosting the Carnival of Spring Play. Come and link up your posts on any spring-themed play idea, craft or activity and get lots of ideas from the Play Academy commmunity.

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Playing with pegs

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playing with clothespegs

We had a great response to our posts about treasure baskets for babies and shoebox play, so I thought I’d look at another everyday item that makes a great un-toy: clothes pegs. Here’s how my children love to play with clothes pegs – and we’d love the hear some more ideas from you.

  • A bowl of soapy water, some clothes to wash and a washing line  = a hour’s worth of contented role play. (Wish I still found so much bliss in doing laundry!)

    • how to make peg dolls

  • Take a clothes peg and the contents of your making box, add some imagination and what can you make? Superheros, pirates, mermaids – have a look at our ‘how to make a peg doll‘ slide show for some more ideas.

    • how to make a clothes peg butterfly

  • Clothes pegs make wonderful butterflies too. Here’s how we make our clothespeg butterfly and here’s another beautiful version that My Kids Make shared with our  Play Academy idea swap.

How do your children play with clothes pegs? Please share an idea (or a link) in the comments – we’d love some new ideas!

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How to make a wedding bouquet

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wedding costume dressing up

It’s all about weddings at the moment. I don’t think L knows there’s a royal wedding on the way but maybe it’s just a case of love in the air because all of a sudden she wants to wear a wedding costume and dress up as a bride. And every bride needs some flowers right? Here’s our quick and easy version of how to make a wedding bouquet.

make tissue paper flowers

We used the same technique we used when we made our opulent tissue paper flowers for our Mothers’ Day flower craft (follow the link for full instructions). Once we had five or six flowers we simply fastened the drinking straw stems together with sticky tape and the blushing bride had her beautiful bouquet.

how to make a dressing up pretend bouquet

Easy-peasy and ever so pretty. A wedding bouquet fit for a queen!

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Roller painting with cars

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painting with cars

We had fun this week roller-painting with cars. We started off with paint on some plates and we dipped the cars’ wheels in before we took them for a drive on the paper. Then B decided we should put some splodges of paint directly on the paper and let the cars roll through.

The children loved the process and there was lots of chat about traffic jams and short cuts – and the finished result was beautiful too.

With sunny weather forecast for the coming week I’m thinking this would be a great activity for outside messy play. How about a long roll of paper laid down the slide or a ramp, with the cars rolling down?

Have you ever tried painting with cars with your children?

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