With Half Term here next week and the Easter school holidays fast approaching too, having a few quick, cheap and easy ideas of things to occupy the children at home can be really useful.
Cheap and easy creative play ideas
Le Tour de France: craft ideas
This years Tour de France kicks of on 7th July. Running until Sunday July 29th 2018, the 105th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,351 kilometres. The first Tour de France was staged in 1903. The plan was a five-stage race from 31 May to 5 July, […]
Craft corner: making spring flowers
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 […]
Making bird puppets with Bostik
We’ve been crafting with Bostik again this weekend. We decided to make bird puppets. First of all we drew a bird to cut out on card. Not the best bird perhaps but the boys didn’t like the idea of using a template, so we went with a freehand drawing. A quick google will pull up […]
Easter Craft with Bostik
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 […]
New Year Craft: Making a Celebration Jar
I can’t quite believe that we are nearing the end of 2017 and 2018 is on the horizon. How was 2017 for you? Here there have been some marvelous highs and lots of lows. It’s been one of those years really. What I am really pleased about though is that at the start of 2017 […]
Halloween Craft: making your own Trick or Treat bags
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 […]
Homemade Valentine’s gifts
The children love to craft. Any opportunity to get the glue, paper, scissors, paints, and of course glitter out, they are there with bells on. They have great imaginations and enjoy creating their own masterpieces out of a few bits and bobs. Recently they have been using supplies from Bostik to create a few Valentine’s inspired […]