April (week 12) - Spring animal prints

Spring animal prints are fun and easy to do, prep time is about 10 mins and you can create multiple backgrounds for different spring scenes.

Spring animal prints

Things that you will need to create your spring animal prints are:
/ Farmyard animal sponges
/ A4 paper
/ Felt tip pen
/ Paints and brushes
/ Glitter

Spring animal prints - preparation kit

To create your spring animal prints with your crafty toddlers, follow these steps:
/ Draw the background on to the paper - the spring scenes that we used were duck ponds, cow shed, rabbit hutch and fenced field.
/ Help your crafty toddler to paint the sponges then squish the sponge on the paper.

Top tip: don't be shy with the paint on the sponge as more paint makes for better prints

/ Use paint brushes to add some splashes of colour to the background scene
/ Add glitter for the finishing touch!

Top Tip: using different coloured paint on a sponge can produce some really colorful prints

Spring animal printing in progress

Spring animal print

Spring animal print

Spring animal print

Our spring animal print family

March (week 11) - Easter bonnet

A really cute Easter bonnet to make with your craft toddlers. My craft toddler made this at his nursery but I thought it was such a simple and good idea that it was worth a post.

Easter bonnet

March (week 11) - Easter Chick

Chicks are synonymous with Easter and this is a quick and easy piece of toddler art and craft to do. We bought a pack from Craft Crocodiles that had a lot of the materials already included so kind of a 'open and do' craft session with zero preparation.

Easter chick

The steps we followed to make our crafty toddler Easter chick:
/ Spread PVA glue over the entire chick.
/ Add shredded tissue for the tummy, glitter & sequins everywhere else.
/ Add boggling eye
/ Colour in beak
/ Stick on tail feathers

March (week 10) - Easter Egg Dish

Easter Egg Dishes are easy to make and can be used for decorating the house around the Easter period - we used our for holding our Easter egg stash! Preparation time is zero apart from getting all the materials ready.

The finished article - Easter egg dish

Things you'll need to make your Easter egg dish:
/ Paper plate
/ Paints and brushes
/ PVA glue
/ Glitter
/ Easter confetti shapes
/ Felt tip pen

Our demo Easter egg dish

Here is how to make your Easter egg dish:
/ Draw a large egg shape in the middle of the paper plate with the felt tip pen and write your message(s) around the sides of the plate.
/ Draw wavy lines, circles, stripes, triangles within the egg shape.
/ Get painting! I added some PVA glue to the paint so that the glitter and confetti shapes stuck to the paint rather than needing to glue over the paint later.
/ Add your glitter and confetti shapes and leave to dry!

All of our Easter egg dishes

Confetti-tastic Easter egg dish!

Glitter-tastic Easter egg dish!

Arty Easter egg dish

Spring colours Easter egg dish

Top tip:  I bought our Easter confetti shapes from Craft Crocodiles online shop.