Day 186 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Can you remember camping as a kid? Fresh air, fun games and living the wild life makes for happy, healthy children, and rarely does a child pass up the chance of camping in the garden. A simple A-frame tent is easy to put...
Day 185 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Another idea for recycled toilet rolls – toilet roll creations. These were made with wax crayons, plastic eyes, a button for a nose and paper whiskers.
Day 184 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Turn a bookshelf into a dolls’ house by adding vertical struts for walls, cutting out windows with a jigsaw and adding a staircase and balcony (thick wooden skewers or ice lolly sticks are really useful for this). Image and text from my book,...
Day 183 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do your kids like eating eggs? Or do they need some encouragement? Here is a fun idea to make little boat eggs. You will need: hard-boiled egg sliced ham, cheese or green pepper, for the sails butter lettuce, for serving You need: cocktail...
Day 182 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Can you remember playing shop? Little chefs always benefit from a kitchen space in which to create their own mixtures – make a simple tabletop structure that can be moved around and cleaned easily? Design it to double up as a shop counter....
Day 181 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Have you ever found a four leafed clover? This search can keep kids busy for hours. If you can’t find a green grassy clover patch, try drawing a picture like this and let you kids find the four leafed clover.
Day 180 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Can you remember drawing faces and mouths on your thumb and fist? This is really fun to make a talking hand, you can keep kids entertained for ages. Let them com up with their own dialogue, and encourage the old kids to write...
Day 179 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Paper dolls clothes – this is really easy activity to make yourself and to let your kids make their own clothes and accessories.
Day 178 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Did you ever play this game at kids parties? It is a lot of fun for the kids, watching as the participant is blind folded and attempts to pin the tail on the donkeys behind. To make the game harder, you can spin...
Day 177 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Paper doll cut outs – how easy is this to do. You can make a folded piece of paper into as many folds as you want, concertina style, and draw on any shape to make paper bunting.