May - Summer Skies

This crafty idea of creating a summer sky is really simple, it has loads of bright colours and sensory pieces too. It requires very little preparation time all you really need are some bits and bobs that you find around the garden.

Summer Skies

Here are the materials that you could use to make your craft summer skies:
A4 paper
Yellow paint
Cotton wool
Coloured tissue paper
PVA glue
Assortment of things from the garden (grass, leaves, petals)

Follow these simple steps to create your craft summer skies:
1/ Use the yellow paint to make a circle (sun) of hand prints on the A4 paper
2/ Stick randon puffs of cotton wool on to the paper (clouds)
3/ Go mad sticking all the bits and bobs on that you found around the garden
4/ Leave to dry and your  summer skies are done!

Here are a range of our summer skies created at toddler group

Here is my favorite summer sky

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 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.