Who loves spring? I love winter but there is something really special about spring I think. Aside from the fact that it’s the season my hay fever rears its head – and anyone with hay fever will know that’s not much fun – it’s the season of new baby lambs, spring flowers and often a […]
Half Term might only just be over but the Easter holidays are just around the corner, with just a five week term to go. We do love Easter here and always do an Easter Egg Hunt. Over the years we’ve done some indoors and some outdoors depending on the weather that year. The outdoor ones […]
Halloween is just around the corner, so what better time than to get the craft stuff out. Halloween craft is limitless and there are so many amazing ideas on Pinterest these days you will be spoilt for choice. We decided to make something that would get used on Halloween, so we put together some trick […]
The children have been doing a spot of craft outside in the sunshine this week. They decided to create a nature scene with their Bostik Box. They had a good sort out of all their Bostik supplies before getting started. They made snails by winding pipe cleaners around in a circle and attaching a small […]
After a good run around outside and a visit to a local playground today the children were keen to come in from the cold, have a few snacks and a compulsory hot chocolate and do some craft. We’ve found rather a lot of mini beasts in the garden this week so that was on their […]
We spent some time at the weekend doing a bit of craft. We used a range of things from Bostik around the theme of dragons. Here are some of the things we used. There was a specific request to make “a really huge dragon” which did seem like a bit of a challenge, so we settled […]
I have written lots about how much the children enjoy craft activities. I’ve always endeavored to start them young and, like cooking, tried to look for ways for even the youngest of children to get involved. I know lots of people wait until the children are older and liable to make less mess but I feel that […]