Button Christmas Tree

I used this craft when teaching the colour "green"

3 year old boy

Materials:

• Green cardboard paper
• Scissors
• White craft glue
• Green buttons

Method:

1. From the green card, cut out a tree.
2. Let the child choose which buttons they would like to use as the tree's "leaves".
3. Use the craft glue to stick them on.

Button Tree

Materials:

• A3 white cardboard paper
• Brightly coloured buttons
• Brown paint
• White craft glue

Method:

1. Use the brown paint to paint the tree trunk and branches.
2. Once dried, use the craft glue to stick on the buttons.

Night Time Forest

Materials:

• Black cardboard paper
• White craft glue
• Silver glitter
• 12 googly eyes of different sizes (6 pairs)
• Yellow cardboard paper
• Scissors
• Twigs

Method:

1. Spread craft glue evenly all over the black card.
2. Generously sprinkle the silver glitter so that all of the glue is covered.
3. Shake off any excess glitter and leave to dry.
4. From the yellow card, cut out a moon shape.
5. Once the glitter has dried, stick the moon onto the top left corner.
6. Use the craft glue to stick on the twigs. You may need to hold them down for a couple of seconds for them to stick properly.
7. Use the craft glue to stick down various sized pairs of googly eyes in between the twigs.

Autumn Tree Scene

Age Range: 6 years to 10 years old
Estimated Time: 30 to 45 minutes
Messiness: High

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Orange paper
• Yellow paper
• Red paper
• Cardboard tube
• Green poster paint
• Blue poster paint
• Brown poster paint
• Red tissue paper
• White craft glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Paint the white card green.
2. Use the brown poster paint to paint rings around the cardboard tube.
3. Cut about 2cm slits from the bottom of the tube.
4. Bend them outwards and stick craft glue onto the bottom of each flap.
5. Stick them down onto the now green card.
6. Cut about 3cm slits from the top of the tube, less the 1cm apart from the other.
7. Cut out leaves from the coloured paper.
8. Use craft glue to stick the leaves onto the 3cm flaps.
9. Use blue paint to paint a river and pond onto the now green card.
10. Crumple bits of red tissue paper into balls and use the craft glue to stick them under the tree.

Bottle Cap Eyed Owl

Age Range: 2 years to 6 years old
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• Black cardboard paper
• White cardboard paper
• Red paper
• 2 white bottle lids
• 2 googly eyes
• Bostik glue
• Pritt glue
• Scissors
• Brown watercolour paint
• Brown pastel

Method:

1. Cut out the owl shape.
2. Use the brown pastel to colour it in.
3. Use Pritt glue to stick it onto the black card.
4. Cut out a branch shape from the left over white card.
5. Use Pritt glue to paste it under the owl.
6. Use brown watercolour paint to paint it.
7. Cut out a long triangle from the red paper.
8. Use Pritt glue to stick it on.
9. Use Bostik glue to stick on the bottle lids.
10. Use Bostik glue to stick the googly eyes inside the bottle lids.

Autumn Tree

3 year old

2 year old

Age Group: 2 years to 6 years
Estimated Time: Under 15 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• White cardboard paper
• Wax crayons
• Watercolour paints

Method:

1. Trace around your child's hand with a wax crayon.
2. On each fingertip, draw the outline of a basic leaf shape in all different colours.
3. Let your child paint to their heart's desire with the watercolour paints.

Sandpaper Tree

This craft is a very nice sensory craft and the finish product looks really good!

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 8 years
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Low

Materials:

• White A4 cardboard paper
• Black sandpaper
• Wax crayons
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Different shaped leaves

Method:

1. Collect different shaped leaves and trace the outline onto sandpaper with a wax crayon.
2. Cut the leaves out and colour them in with different coloured crayons
3. Cut out a rectangle from the sandpaper for the tree trunk and colour it in with a brown crayon.
4. Paste them onto the white card with craft glue.

Natural Tree

This is a really nice activity to get children outdoors, even if only for a short while. 

Age Group: 2 years (with help) to 10 years
Estimated Time: 15 to 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

• A4 white cardboard paper
• Brown crayon
• Different types of leaves
• Flower petals
• Blades of grass
• Pritt glue
• Scissors

Method:

1. Go into your garden and pick different types of leaves - I got hold of 6 different types.
2. Pick a small, brightly coloured flower.
3. With scissors, cut off a few blades of grass.
4. Use the brown crayon to draw a tree trunk and some branches - as you can see, I am no artist!!
5. Using normal Pritt glue, glue the leaves onto the branches, the blades of grass individually at the bottom of the tree trunk and the flower petals on the other side.