When my kids were growing up, we lived in a little village in North Yorkshire. I had no car and the twice daily bus service to the nearby town made it challenging to go places. But living in a country village had a lot of benefits, not least the library bus. Every other Wednesday would find us scrabbling for our shoes, coats and books to return so ...
An inexpensive craft that keeps kids busy and develops creativity. Display their art on the wall, or fridge, or use it to make inexpensive personalized cards or bookmarks.
Get your kids being creative maths detectives and investigating tessellation using 2D shape patterns. Display their art on the wall, or fridge, or use it to make inexpensive personalized cards or bookmarks.
What is tessellation?
Tessellations are repeating patterns of 2D shapes that ...
Play dough is an easy to make, inexpensive, modelling material. Using just a few ingredients, your kids can get creative making their own modelling dough and sculpting it into their own role-play toys, letters and models.
Store your home-made play dough in an airtight container in the fridge and re-use it.
Get busy and creative, recycling empty plastic bottles into bowling pins (skittles). Try knocking the bowling pins down with a ball and develop your maths skills while you play.
Get your kids being creative making pictures from 2D shapes. Display their art on the wall, or fridge, or use it to make inexpensive personalized cards or bookmarks.
What you need:
2D shapes to draw round;
Go on a shape hunt around your house or garden. Find 2D ...
An easy, inexpensive craft that keeps kids busy and creative. Display their art on the wall, or fridge, or use it to make inexpensive personalized cards or bookmarks.
What you need:
Recycled cardboard tubes from inside rolls of kitchen towel, gift wrap or aluminium foil etc.
Make a delicious picnic for your Teddy Bears with air dry salt dough.
Air dry salt dough is an easy to make, inexpensive, modeling material. Using just flour, salt and water, your kids can get creative making their own modeling dough and sculpting it into their own role-play toys, models and decorations.
An easy, mess free and inexpensive craft that gets kids being creative. Display their art on the wall, or fridge, or use it to make inexpensive personalized cards or bookmarks.
What you need:
Felt tip/marker pens
A piece of kitchen paper towel with an embossed design on it
Want your kids to send thank you messages, birthday wishes or other greetings to friends and family?
Get them busy and creative, recycling used gift wrap to make inexpensive personalized cards.