Tag: upcycle

  • Pretend cupcakes

    Pretend cupcakes

    I had some icing from some biscuits I made so had to find other uses for it. I always keep expired food items for play (it doesn’t happen often, but sometimes I do come across to something that has not been eaten in time and don’t like to just throw it away). I had corn…

  • 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.

  • Sink or float experiment

    Sink or float experiment

    Get a transparent bowl, fill it with water and put things in it to observe if they float or sink. Better done in the garden to look for things. Learn about density and porosity and why things float. After the game this ended up being a witch potion

  • Stay home ideas 15

    Stay home ideas 15

    Feeding snails, cardboard nail salon and sleeping bag play.

  • DIY Hologram projector

    DIY Hologram projector

    What a cool thing to be doing with your home schooled kids. Use some plastic foil from used packaging (clear fruit punnets or toiletry gift boxes) to make a piramid with no base or top. See enclosed photo. You need 4 shapes that you will stick together with transparent tape. Each shape had a 6…

  • 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.

  • Easter card/picture idea

    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.

  • Beauty station – stay home ideas 10

    Beauty station – stay home ideas 10

    Lots of play with a make up mirror, hair clips, glasses (old frames), fascinators, scarfs and some perfume and lipstick.

  • Stay home ideas 3

    Stay home ideas 3

    Another day home with the kids. Much happens in a day, but here’s some of our main activities from today. Poker, throwing stones and milk bottles bowling.

  • Stay home ideas 2

    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