What do you do with all your kids art work? We do a lot of painting and I reuse the painted paper to make other things like collages, greeting cards etc. Learn how to make Christmas ornaments using painted paper. What is in the Craft basket? Newspaper (to spread down while working) Newspaper sheets cut….
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How to make gift wrapping paper using leaf prints
This holiday season make some lovely gift wrapping paper using leaf prints. Leaf print craft is a fun activity for kids. If you are making prints on paper, you can use them to wrap gifts. If you are making prints on card stock, you can turn them into beautiful greeting cards and send them to….
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Home made Christmas ornaments using pipe cleaners
Home made Christmas ornaments are fun. Make your own Christmas ornaments using pipe cleaners and beads and decorate your Christmas tree. Materials needed: glitter pipe cleaners beads bells How to make your own Christmas ornaments at home using pipe cleaners? Decide on the shape of the ornament Decide on how big you want the….
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Sensory Play: 3 fun games using sound jars
Sensory Play Game 1: Sound matching memory game Sensory play helps refine the 5 senses -touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Involving children in sensorial activities is very important especially in the early years. The memory game explained below focuses on the sense of hearing. The rules of a memory game are simple and hence it….
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[INFOGRAPHIC] 9 ways Purple Bee activity kits help parents
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Boon to busy parents Purple Bee boxes are hands-on activity boxes for kids in the age group of 3-7 years. Each box contains activities based on a particular theme. For example the “sound of music” box contains activities based on music like painting a tambourine, making a clown puppet and I spy board game. As….
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An excellent way to encourage open ended play in children
What is open ended play? “Play is the highest form of research” said Albert Einstein.There are absolutely no rules, no right or wrong way to do things. It could be playing with bits of paper, blocks, paint or play dough. If you give the same material to a group of children, each child may play in….
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Q tip Painting for children
Q TIP painting – A fun way to engage kids Q tip painting is a fun way to paint without the usual paint brush. Kids are used to painting with a paint brush. Experiment with other ways like vegetable painting or q-tip painting every now and then. Craft Basket I set up the craft basket with….
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