Being Paid 2 Play

Monday, 7 July 2014

This is a very nice activity for younger children to practice their shapes - specifically triangles and circles.

Materials:

Method:

Cut out 1 big circle from the yellow paper for the tummy.
Cut out 2 smaller circles from the blue paper for the ears.
Cut out a long triangle from the green paper for the face.
Use Pritt glue to glue the shapes down. First the tummy, then the face and then the ears.
Use the black kokie to draw in feet, arms, a tail and eyes.

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Method:

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

2 year old

3 year old

Age Range: 2 years to 6 years old
Estimated Time: Under 30 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

Method:

Paint the paper plate in the brightly coloured paint and let dry.
Once dried, paint a child's hands black with the black poster paint and make a spider (see image)
Use the craft glue to stick 2 googly eyes onto the spider (optional)
Once that has dried, punch holes on the edge of the paper plate.
Thread string through the holes to mimic a spider web.
Use the cellotape to secure the ends of the string to the back of the paper plate.

Age Range: 3 years to 8 years old
Estimated Time: Under 10 minutes
Messiness: Low

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

Materials:

Method:

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

3 year old

Age Range: 2 years to 8 years old
Estimated Time: Under 20 minutes
Messiness: Medium

Materials:

Method:

Cut out a pot shape from the black card.
Use Pritt glue to stick it onto the white card.
Cut out squares from all the tissue paper colours.
Using Pritt glue, paste a the squares of each colour in strips going down so that it looks like a rainbow.
Use gold glitter glue to draw in gold circles to represent the "gold" in the pot.

Age Range: 6 years to 10 years
Estimated Time: Over 1 Hour
Messiness: High

Materials:

Method:

Cut out 2 yellow circles for eyes (about 2cm across) and 2 green circles (about 1.5cm across).
Use Pritt glue to stick the green circles onto the bigger yellow circles.
Spread craft glue on the underneath of the bottle and about 1cm around the edge of the bottom of the bottle.
Stick pieces of red tissue paper onto the glue.
Use craft glue to stick the eyes onto the bottom of the bottle.
Use craft glue to stick the pom-pom on as the nose.
Spread craft glue over the rest of the bottle.
Stick on strips of tissue paper in the different shades of green.
Let dry.
Use the craft knife to poke a hole on the top of the caterpillar just where the red tissue paper ends.
Fold the pipe cleaner in half and push the fold through the hole as feelers.
To make the leaf, cut out a leaf shape from the white card.
Paint the entire cut-out green.
On one side of the leaf, paint over with yellow to create lime green.
On the other side of the leaf, use a tiny bit of black paint to create the darker effect.
Cut out a "bite mark" on the edge of the leaf.
Use Bostik glue to stick the Caterpillar onto the leaf!