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Stay home ideas 16
Decorate biscuits with icing and sprinkles and make a cardboard make up salon with faces for kids (girls might like this more) to paint. Mine put lipstick, eye shadow, made longer lashes and coloured hair.
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Stay home ideas 15
Feeding snails, cardboard nail salon and sleeping bag play.
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Easter card/picture idea
Use some egg boxes to make this multideminsional card. Cut the egg holders in flower shapes, paint and make a bouquet by glueing the flowers on some card. Add the stems and punch a whole for hanging up.
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Placard making – stay home ideas 9
We’ve taken part in the Scottish CND challenge #windowsforpeace to make a placard and display it in the window. Stamping, cutting and sticking, writing and coloring on a cardboard kept them occupied for hours.
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Stay home ideas 2
Today’s ideas for the kids off school and nursery. 1. Early Easter egg hunt 2. Make & paint your binoculars with two toilet rolls
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Leaves impressions project
Get out, gather leaves of all kind then bring them in. Paint one side and stick them to a cardboard then remove to leave their trace. Explain the names of the trees and so on. This one was kept for a long while and admired by many people.
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Toilet rolls Halloween figurines
Reuse some of your toilet rolls by painting them to make phantoms, baths, zombies or cats. You might need some glue, eyes and other bits of cardboard.
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Toys ideas
Here are some ideas of toys for when you are in holiday or at someone else’s house. 1. Pegs – my little ones like sorting them, clip them to clothes, throw them in a basket from distance, making patterns. You can also hang a low string and give them some clothes for pretend washing. They…
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Kids stone painting
Summer is here so go the nearest river and gather a few stones to paint with your little ones. They do not have to be perfect. Let your little ones be the artists. Hide them in the garden and use for playing activities.
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Minimarket – pretend playroom
Here is a project it took me a while to complete. A pretend shop in the summer house. I kept lots of bottles, boxes and tubs and used a few cardboard boxes to put up a shop. Used pom poms and yarn to make fake mince, cheese strings, eggs and sweets. I made some cardboard…