Use old hair dye bottle for painting!
The next time you dye your hair at home, try re-using the bottles for creating some messy art work! We have also used watery paint…
Art and craft activities for babies.
Potato print ladybird
Potato print ladybird
A great way to use up old potatoes from the back of the cupboard!
Dried pulses collage
I found some out of date pulses in the back of my kitchen cupboards. Rather than throwing them away, I decided to take them to…
Paper plate jelly fish
Lots of jelly fish around at the moment. Try making this jelly fish from half a paper plate, some brightly coloured strips of paper and…
Spring blossom collage
Made simply with brown wool, scrunched up pink tissue paper and lots of glue!
Spring flower hand print picture
These hand print paintings look lovely on display. We added a little glitter to the paint to give that extra sparkle.
Easy umbrella collage. Glueing and sticking activity.
Weather collage- great come rain or shine!
This is really easy to do in a group- draw a chunky image, photocopy and leave the children to be creative! I like to use…
Abstract spaghetti paiting
Spaghetti picture: painting or messy play
Some children made an abstract spaghetti picture painting. Some mums painted a face, and the children added spaghetti hair. I made a spaghetti train picture…
Feather animal collage- create spring animals
This is Sam's feather animal collage. Very young children will enjoy just sticking the feathers down with PVA glue, and an adult can add details to…
Balloon printing
Half inflate balloons, dip in paint and use for printing. It gives a lovely effect. Warning: will be messy!
Rowan with his rocket. He only wanted 2 silver strips because they were the burners ;)
Space rocket collage
I can never get my little boy to do the art and craft activity, he's not interested. My mum suggested that we do something that…
Paper plate sheep
I was going to do this with cotton wool, but I found some old wool and polystyrene bits that I thought would work well. The…
Blossom printing picture
I painted the branches and the children printed the pink blossom. Simply created by the underneath of a plastic drinks bottle dipped in pink paint
Kite collage
White card kite shapes a decorate (actually done because we had lots of bits cut out and left over from the fish collage- recognise the…
Fish collage
Just photocopied a picture of a fish (kindly drawn by my husband) and decorated with fish scales and green tissue paper seaweed.
Handprint dinosaur painting
I just prepared a dinosaur template made out of thick card. The children drew round using felt pen, then used handprints to make stegosaurus dinosaur (Rowan…
Caterpillar paper collage
Just paper circles used to make a spring caterpillar picture. If you look closely, you can just about see the caterpillar's face drawn on.
Easter egg collage with straw.
We used shredded paper from a craft shop, but you could easily used shredded bank statements- even better shredded yellow and brown paper! Simply a card shape…
Before cutting out!
Paper plate snake- easy animal collage
What you need: paper plate paper triangles glue google eye Preparation: draw a spiral on the paper plates cut out the bits to stick on-…
Very easy snow picture using printing
I had planned to do something totally different this week, but we had some surprise snow! I needed something any aged child could do and…