Tag: fine motor skills

  • Foam clay poppies necklace

    Foam clay poppies necklace

    I love poppies so here is a very easy way to make a necklace. All you need is a few strings of glass beads, a glue gun and some red air drying foam clay. This material is very easy to work with, is light and does not require any thermal treatment. I recommend it for…

  • Carved pumpkin idea

    Carved pumpkin idea

    Fairy House Pumpkin. Some flowers and leaves, toadstools and loads of glitter.

  • Rubbish bag spider webs

    Rubbish bag spider webs

    Similar technic like the paper snowflakes. You cut the bag into a square than fold it a few time first in a triangle then another time in half and then cut the sides and leave a core part in the middle like in the photo. There are several other versions online. Super easy. Stick them…

  • Paper bats

    Paper bats

    Cut bats shapes from black cardboard and stick them to walls or on pegs to decorate your house.

  • Halloween mice silhouette decor

    Halloween mice silhouette decor

    Print and cut some black mice silhouettes and stick them to your walls or stairs. Super cheap way to decorate your house.

  • Pom pom spiders

    Pom pom spiders

    With Halloween coming soon here’s a thematic craft project. To make these spiders you need paper, pom poms and wiggle eyes. Get some scissors to cut a base and legs and stick everything on the little paper base. Add the eyes and a mouth and you are done.

  • Space cardboard collage

    Space cardboard collage

    Sorry for my absence. Between work and school I have little time left for the blog. I love a big cardboard collage. It’s a fun way of doing homework or learning. I use them for discoverig different topics or to practice writing, drawing or counting as well as refine fine motor skills by perfecting cutting…

  • Stay home ideas 16

    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.

  • Slate painting

    Slate painting

    Same thing as painting pebbles: acrylic markers and sealent spray. I used some broken slates to make houses and an old tile to make a multi-storey block. You can put them in your garden or in a fairy corner.

  • Chores & Lifelong skills

    Chores & Lifelong skills

    My little ones love helping with cooking, dusting or wiping floors. They can practice how to use scissors and knives, graters, brooms, vacuums and other instruments. She had great fun learning how to sew with a jumbo plastic needle and cardboard. We are doing different shapes like squares or triangles.