Category Archives: Art and Craft Ideas

Space here we come

My kids have never been interested in Space until a few weeks ago when they watched this You-Tube clip  Space shuttle launch .   Now my little boy is obsessed.  He walks around the house doing a countdown and they saying … Continue reading

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The Crunching Munching Caterpillar

We recently picked up a number of wonderful books at our local Oxfam shop and two of Blue’s favourites are The Crunching Munching Caterpillar (Very Noisy Picture Books) and The Very Lazy Ladybird (Very Noisy Picture Book) (Very Noisy Picture … Continue reading

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Starting year 2 and making Collages

The kids and I had a blast this weekend experimenting with our food dye and bits and pieces out of the kitchen cupboards.  We started off dyeing some rice, mainly as we have done this a number of times before … Continue reading

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Elmer and ballerina collages

I have been spending quite a lot of time on the Twinkl webiste looking for maths and english pages and just generally searching the website.  On one of these searches I came across these great looking Elmer colouring pages (Platinum … Continue reading

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Missing Ballet class

Pink loves her ballet class and she has really been missing not having her classes over the summer holidays.  She goes to a lovely class which is part of Twinkle Toes ballet.    They have been wonderful with her and … Continue reading

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