Glitter Tarantula

3 year old boy

4 year old boy

Materials:

• Black cardboard paper
• 8 clothes pegs
• 8 googly eyes of different sizes
• White craft glue
• Glitter
• Scissors
• Paper plate

Method:

2 year old girl


1. Cut out a circle shape from the black card.
2. Use craft glue to stick on the 8 googly eyes.
3. Pour the glitter onto the paper plate and spread it so that it is even.
4. Spread a thin layer of craft glue onto one side of each peg.
5. Place the glued side of each peg into the glitter.
6. Pick up and shake off the excess glitter.
7. Leave to dry.
8. Once dried, peg onto the sides of the circles to make spiders!

Craft Stick Lodge Scene

This one is for much older children - was quite challenging for me!!
The materials I am stating are exact to what I used, obviously you can change the colours and sizes if you so wish!

Materials:

• A3 white cardboard paper
• 7 red craft sticks (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 18 orange craft sticks (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 14 yellow craft sticks (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 2 purple craft sticks (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 1 blue craft stick (11.5 x 1 cm)
• 2 orange craft sticks (16 x 1.7 cm)
• 1 red craft stick (16 x 1.7 cm)
• 2 red match sticks
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Black kokie
• Red kokie
• White craft glue
• Blue felt
• 1 purple clothes peg

Method:

1. Copy the picture above. But first do the house and then the pond and then the drawing.
2. When doing the house, start with the wall and then move on to the roof. The roof especially, is very precise with measurements, so you will need a ruler for this. 
3. Have fun!!!!

Clothes Peg Golden Sun

3 year old

 Materials:

• Paper plate
• Yellow poster paint
• 2 googly eyes
• 5 clothes pegs
• Purple tissue paper
• Red tissue paper
• Orange tissue paper
• Yellow tissue paper
• Blue tissue paper
• White craft glue
• Red kokie

Method:

1. Cut the paper plate in half.
2. Paint the one half yellow.
3. Paint the 5 clothes pegs yellow.
4. Cut out 1 strip of each of the colours of tissue paper.
5. Once the plate has dried, use craft glue to stick the strips to the straight part of the plate.
6. Use craft glue to stick on the googly eyes.
7. Use the red kokie to draw a mouth.
8. Once the pegs have dried, clip them onto the outside of the sun!

Clothes Peg Aeroplane

Materials:

• Wooden peg
• 4 coloured ice-cream sticks
• Poster paint
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Paint the wooden peg using the poster paint.
2. Leave to dry.
3. Use the craft glue to stick 2 ice-cream sticks to the top of the peg and 2 to the bottom of the peg.  

Clothes Peg Magnets

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 10 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes excluding drying time
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Pegs (either wooden or plastic)
• Paint (acrylic for plastic pegs, poster for wooden pegs)
• Glitter glue
• Bostik glue
• Magnet strips

Method:

1. Paint the pegs with either acrylic or poster paint, depending on the type of peg being used.
2. Let it dry.
3. Use Bostik glue to stick a magnet strip onto the under side of the peg.
4. Decorate the top of the peg as desired.
5. Let it dry completely before using.

Washline Clothing Theme

I used this activity when I was doing my Seasons theme.

Materials:

• 2 A4 pieces of white cardboard paper
• 2 pieces of string
• Wooden pegs (I used 13)
• Cellotape
• Felt in a variety of colours
• Scissors

Method:

1. Cut out a variety of winter and summer clothing from the different coloured felt. For winter, I cut out trousers, mittens, long sleeve shirt, sock, hoodie, boot, wooly hat and a scarf. For summer, I cut out a swimming costume, a t-shirt, shorts, a cap and a slip slop.
2. Cut to pieces of string long enough to go from one side of the paper to the other with a slight dip.
3. Cellotape the pegs into place.
4. Peg the clothing onto the correct pages (Winter and Summer).
5. A more interactive way of doing this, is to put all the cut-outs into a pile and get your children to sort out which are summer items and which are winter items and peg them up themselves.