activities for school kids

Laminated Pastel Drawings

May 14, 2013

I was given a gift card to an office supplies store for Christmas. And if that wasn’t awesome enough, I was also given an hour to wander around that store… [...]

Finger Painting on Foil

May 7, 2013

We have a longstanding love affair with foil in our house. We’ve painted on it, drawn on it, made Christmas decorations out of it, and today we got out the [...]

Graph Paper Drawing – Where Art and Maths Combine.

April 30, 2013

We had some friends over last week, and after almost a whole day running around, jumping on the trampoline, dancing, dressing up, playing vets, and chasing chickens by late afternoon [...]

Acorn Season – Why Collecting Stuff is Good for Kids

April 16, 2013

It’s acorn season. We live in an area where huge old oak trees are everywhere, stretching their ancient branches heavy with acorns and covered in luminous green leaves almost down [...]

Bouncy Balloon Painting

April 2, 2013

I don’t like balloons. Well actually I don’t mind balloons on their own, but when you combine balloons with kids, it always ends in tears. Well almost always… In a [...]

See-Through Paintings

March 19, 2013

I love the idea of painting on windows with my kids, but the only child height window we have is… ahem… still not painted, so letting my kids loose near [...]

Finger Leg Puppets

March 5, 2013

For the month of February my new school boy has had Wednesdays off. It has been lovely to have this extra day with my boy, and he has appreciated the [...]

Free Printable Hexi Cards

February 26, 2013

Every now and then an idea pops into my head that turns out to be great. It doesn’t happen very often mind you. Most often my ideas are total flops. [...]

Melted Bottle Jewelery

January 30, 2013

My kids have been nagging me to get some shrinky-dinks for ages. But that stuff is not easy to find here, and it’s not cheap either! I’d seen a tutorial [...]

Foam Sticker Stamps

January 22, 2013

Sometimes you just need to do something fun and arty and something that you know will work for everyone… Yesterday that ‘something’ was making stamps from the foam stickers Noah [...]

Melted Crayon Drawings

January 8, 2013

I’ve been looking for a way for my kids to play with melted crayons for a while now. The idea of sitting for hours with a hair dryer watching crayons [...]

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