Category: Play

  • Kids bird feeder

    Kids bird feeder

    Here’s a easy to make bird feeder for the cold season. What you need: toilet paper rolls; peanut butter; bird seeds; some string. Just spread some peanut butter on the toilet roll to get the seeds to stick. Use a bit of string to put the feeder in a tree.

  • North pole tuff spot (snow version 2)

    North pole tuff spot (snow version 2)
  • How to dye chickpeas, rice or beans

    How to dye chickpeas, rice or beans

    Here’s how you dye dry food like pasta, rice, beans, chickpeas to be used in tuff spots play and imaginative small world play. What you need: food to dye; colours (I used watercolours, but you can use food coloring too); a plastic bottle or a freezer bag; vinegard if you’re using food colouring. Put the…

  • Build & paint a giant dinosaur kit

    Build & paint a giant dinosaur kit

    I’d say this was a good value buy. It’s not very sturdy and you might need to reinforce the neck to stay up, but for a fiver what else can you want? We needed a few days to finish it so it kept us going. Get your dino here:

  • Construction site play tray

    Construction site play tray
  • Christmas cards – Foot & Hand prints

    Christmas cards – Foot & Hand prints

    Why spend money on cards if you have a pair of cute and small feet or hands around? What you need: Paints; Cardboard; Glue; Felt, eyes, beads, sequins or small pom poms.  

  • Activity Advent Calendar

    Activity Advent Calendar

    This is a fab ideea to replace the classic chocolate advent calendar. You do need quite a few craft materials and ideeas, but you end up with an activity a day to keep your wee ones ocupied. What you need: a box ( I had one from a beer advent calendar and I keep using…

  • Edible snow (snow version 1)

    Edible snow (snow version 1)

    What you need: White flour; Warm water; Snow animals figurines (seals, penguins) Large plastic sheet or a tuff spot tray (cement mixing tray); Additional protection for the floor (tarpaulin sheet). Not much explaining needing for this activity, but plenty of cleaning after so do make sure you put loads of protection on your floor. I…

  • Pottery project

    Pottery project

    As the title suggests all you need is a pottery kit for kids. The one I have has all the materials including the paints. As this needs to dry, this is an activity in two stages. You can buy a set like that for £10 and make a few projects with it. Keep the mix…

  • Painted cardboard house

    Painted cardboard house

    What you need: A big cardboard box and a small one; A sheet to protect the floor (I have an old bed sheet which I keep for craft projects); Acrylic paints and brushes; Cello tape, staples or glue; Scissors. Lift the side flops of the big box and glue them together to make a roof…