Were you lucky enough to receive any Christmas gifts in great big cardboard boxes? Try these fabulous ideas to make the most from your box.
Seventeen cardboard box crafts
Use your cardboard box and make…. [Read more…]
by Cathy James
Were you lucky enough to receive any Christmas gifts in great big cardboard boxes? Try these fabulous ideas to make the most from your box.
Use your cardboard box and make…. [Read more…]
by Cathy James
Do you remember the toilet roll tubes from last week’s Play Academy? No-one guessed what they were for! Not an advent calendar, not snowmen but in fact a frosty winter village, for some small world play.
We started by cutting our toilet roll tubes into different sizes so we could have a variety of houses and then painted them all white. We used acrylic paint as it covered the cardboard better than our water-based poster paint. [Read more…]
by Cathy James
What a sweet family portrait of our junk model robots. Inspired by a book B is reading at school Saturday morning turned into robot making time.
by Cathy James
Here’s a simple spider craft for preschool that’s great for Halloween craft or nursery rhyme fun.
by Cathy James
Want an activity that promotes creativity, environmental awareness and maths skills and combines imaginative play with a boost of literacy? Peg dolls are where it’s at!
Take some wooden pegs, add recycled materials from your making box and let the kids get to work, making whatever characters are in their imaginations. [Read more…]
by Cathy James
Here’s a fun autumn painting idea: ever tried making roly-poly pictures with acorns and horse chestnuts?