Day 108 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Most houses have pegs. If you are at a loss for craft ideas, decorate some pegs with felt or paper. Use the pegs on pin boards or cupboard doors. This is a simple, fun and easy craft that kids will enjoy. Other ideas do...

Day 107 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do you recycle your glass jars? Use nail polish to paint pretty patterns and designs on them. Collect and recycle glass jars, from Peanut Butter and Marmite jars to jam jars. Wash and remove the labels with turpentine and then wash again in...

Day 106 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Have a princess tea party treat! With sweet sandwiches – not for the healthiest of days, but the kids will have a lot of fun. Cut slices of bread into shapes, using a cookie cutter or a knife, spread butter on the bread...

Day 105 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do you have nasturtium leaves in your garden? Have fun with water droplets on the leaves. Nasturtium leaves have a coating that repels water, so water droplets appear like silver mercury on the leaves. Carefully pick a leaf and your kids can make...

Day 104 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Funny face salad with hidden vegetables. Couscous or brown rice make a great base for creating faces, with cucumber eyes and a red or yellow pepper mouth. When veggies are cut up finely and incorporated into something like couscous or rice, they are...

Day 103 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Paper houses. Recycle a tea box to cover as a house. Add grass or a fence and a driveway. This can be used as a backdrop for your kids to play with their toys. Make all shapes of houses and fields, using paper...

Day 102 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Pea pictures and spelling. Have fun encouraging your kids to enjoy eating vegetables. Make letters with peas or shell peas together – you may find quite a few peas get eaten in the process! From my book Fun Foods for Kids (Struik Publishers...

Day 101 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Recycled row boat. Use an empty cleaning plates bottle and some recycled plastic spoons to make this fun row boat for ‘turtle’. All you need is a bit if imagination and some washy tape. You can also decorate your tow boat with permanent...

Day 100 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Creative sandwiches. Who said a cheese and ham sandwich was boring? Have fun with all the usual toppings, use eggs or cucumber as eyes, blueberries and raspberries or baby tomatoes as eyes and noses, cheese semi circles as mouths etc. Add some grated...

Day 99 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Make yoghurt bottle men. Recycled these small yoghurt bottles and draw on them with a permanent marker. Make hats out of paper or felt or collect bottle tops from other containers to use as hats. #recycle #craft #imagination