This simple local history worksheet is a great way to get the kids interested in their surroundings and the history that shaped them. I created this worksheet as a fun little activity to do with my own children, now I’m sharing it with you to customise with your own little ones!
This adorable Halloween craft is so quick and easy to make and looks fab on display ready for spooky season to arrive!
Start by taking your black card and cutting out a rectangle the same height as your tp roll tube and wide enough to wrap around it. Glue the card around your toilet roll tube to make the cat’s body.
Cut out two large black triangles to make the cat’s outer ears then two slightly smaller pink ones for the inner ears. Glue the two pieces of ear together and then glue the ears onto the inside of the top end of your toilet roll.
Stick two googly eyes onto the tp roll, then finish the face by adding a little pom pom nose and some thin white rectangles for whiskers.
Now cut out a long thin strip and glue it around the tube just below the face to make your cat’s collar before adding a little yellow tag to the base of it.
Finally cut out a long curved shape for the tail and stick it onto the back of the body, once dry your Halloween cat craft is finished!
These cute and simple butterfly and frog life cycles are ones that i made for my own two children as part of our home-school curriculum. We had a lot of fun assembling them and we hope that you and your little ones do too!
Since I’ve started home schooling my two children I’m constantly looking to link our crafts in with fun educational activities. In the coming weeks we are going to be looking at writing and reading instructions, so this pizza Craft is an excellent (and fun) tie in activity for writing instructions in a recipe. I’ve included a printable recipe worksheet which can be downloaded completely free. Alternatively you can leave a small donation if you feel able to help support my blog but that’s completely optional!
Once we’re finished with our pizzas we’re going to pop them into the cupboard ready to cut up and use as visual aids for learning fractions!
Start by getting your child to paint the base of their pizza. My son and I used a light burnt orange colour to paint the outer rim of the pizza as the pizza base. We then used red paint to paint on the red tomato sauce. Once your paper plate is painted, pop it aside to dry whilst you make your toppings.
Now it’s time to decide what toppings you’re going to use. For our first topping we cut out several thin yellow strips of paper to make cheese. We then sprinkled and glued them all over our paper plate pizza.
Cut out and stick on your first pizza topping, we went for some little ham circles.
Now you’re going to add another topping. We decided to make some mushrooms for our pizza. We used foam to make them look a little more 3D but you can absolutely just use paper!
Add any other optional toppings to complete your pizza and then pop it aside to dry whilst we complete the worksheet
Print out the worksheet that you find ready for download below. Ask your child to draw a picture In the top box and then to fill out what ingredients and equipment are needed to make their custom pizzas along with instructions.
These cute and easy diy fairy wands are a perfect easy craft idea to make with any little fairy, pixie or princess! All you need are a few basic materials and a little creativity!
First you’re going to need to create two identical stars, the easiest way to do this is to create a template star to draw around. You can either create your own template or print out our simple star that’s available for free below. Once you have your two stars pop them aside for a moment
Now you’re going to take a square of coloured paper to make the stick. Our square was roughly 20cm x 20cm.
Turn your square so one of the corners is pointing towards you. Begin rolling that corner to create a straw shape, you’re going to want to keep it small and tight. Once you reach the end secure the stick in place with a bit of glue.
Glue the stick onto the back of one of your stars
The glue the two stars together covering the stick in the middle of them both as you can see above.
Now it’s time for little one to decorate their magical diy wand by tying small lengths of ribbon around the top of the stick and adding any other optional decor.
Once totally dry the wands are ready to play with! Why not make some of our cute fairy wings to go with them!?
