May - Mr Rollie Heads

This is a very fun piece of craft to do with your toddlers and creating Mr Rollie Head in all different colours and expressions went down a treat too. The prep time is minimal but does require you to have stored up some toilet roll iners.

Mr Rollie Head - Bring him to life using your fingers as arms

The things you will need to create your Mr Rollie Heads are:
Toilet roll inners
Paints
Glitter
PVA glue
Pom poms
Sheets of coloured tissue
Boggling eyes OR white circle stickers
Felt tip pen

Here are the things that you need to create your Mr Rollie Head

Follow these steps to make your Mr Rollie Head:
1/ Add some PVA glue to your paints so that the glitter will stick to the paint without needing another layer of glue
2/ Paint the toilet roll inner
3/ Add glitter and sequins then leave to dry
4/ Once dry, stick on the boggling eyes or white stickers and draw on pupils with the felt tip pen

Top tip - draw on eyelashes or eyebrows or draw different shaped pupils to create a character

5/ Stick on a pom pom for the nose
6/ Draw on a smilie mouth

Top tip - draw on teeth or a tongue to create a character

7/ Take a sheet of coloured tissue and glue in in to the top of the toilet roll to give Mr Rollie Head some hair!

Mr Rollie Head - The finished product

Our family of Mr Rollie Heads

February (week 6) - 'I love ewe' valentines card

Seems as it is lambing season and valentines day, I though that making a sheepy a valentines card that the toddlers could give to a loved one could be an interesting craft combination. Preparation takes about 10 mins.

I LOVE EWE valentines card

To make your 'I love ewe' valentines card you will need:
/ Toilet roll inners
/ PVA glue
/ Thick card for legs, neck and head
/ Stapler
/ Felp tip pens (black or navy)
/ Cotton wool
/ White tissue paper
/ Glitter
/ Heart shaped stickers

I LOVE EWE prep

Steps to make your 'I love ewe' valentines cards are as follows:
1/ Crinkle up the white tissue, then flatten out and roll around the toilet roll inner, staple in place.
2/ Draw and cut out your sheep face, attach to a 'L' shaped piece of card board and then staple to inside of sheep body.
3/ Cut out 2x 1cm think strips of card for the legs. Attach to the under side of the sheep body by stapling in the middle of the strip of card. Fold the legs either side of the staple so the sheep can stand on its own feet.
4/ Write your valentines message on the body of the tissue using the felt tip pen.
5/ Apply some glue to different areas of the body, including the sheep fringe and stick on some cotton wool.
6/ Sprinkle on some glitter and stick on some heart stickers.

There you have it a cute 'I love ewe' valentines day card to give to someone special.

I LOVE EWE's created by our crafty toddlers

I LOVE EWE's created by our crafty toddlers

January (week 4) - Potato Bird Prints

It was Bird Watch Week this week so thought this was a perfect themed craft piece to do.

The finished product - Potato bird prints

Thing you need to make the crafty potato bird prints:
/ Potatoes
/ Paper
/ PVA glue
/ Range of coloured paints and
/ Glitter
/ Sequins
/ Strips of cardboard

Potato bird printing prep

The steps to follow to make your potato bird prints are:
1/ Use green paint to paint a large, rough circle in the middle of the paper (this will be the tree), then leave to dry
2/ Paint the edge of a strip of cardboard with dark paint and drag it across the paper (this will be the trunk and some branches)
3/ Cut the potatoes in half and shape to a basic shape that resembles a bird body, I used the simple shape of a comma
4/ Paint the freshly cut side of the potato in any bright colours and press onto paper in bird like places
6/ Sprinkle glitter on to the wet paint for the bird bodies
5/ Use felt tip pens to draw a beak, feet and possibly tail feathers on to your bird bodies
6/ Once dry, use stick on sequins for eyes

NOTE: our toddlers found this quite a hard craft piece so I would suggest starting with the potato printing and decoration, leaving the creation of the tree for older children

Some of the potato bird prints created by our craft toddlers