
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I found some out of date pulses in the back of my kitchen cupboards.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 toddler group. We simply stuck …
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Collage ideas for babies and toddlers
I found some out of date pulses in the back of my kitchen cupboards.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 toddler group. We simply stuck …
Read MoreLots of jelly fish around at the moment. Try making this jelly fish from half a paper plate, some brightly coloured strips of paper and plenty of paint!
Read MoreUse leaves, petals, twigs, grass, what ever you can find, to make a beautiful nature collage. Dandelion seeds give a lovely effect when glued onto black paper. When we did …
Read MoreThis is really easy to do in a group- draw a chunky image, photocopy and leave the children to be creative! I like to use paper and material with different …
Read MoreSome children made an abstract spaghetti picture painting. Some mums painted a face, and the children added spaghetti hair. I made a spaghetti train picture for Rowan to paint. Some …
Read MoreThis 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 turn them into little animals. …
Read MoreI 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 he is interested in (obvious …
Read MoreI was going to do this with cotton wool, but I found some old wool and polystyrene bits that I thought would work well. The first picture is the example …
Read MoreWhite card kite shapes a decorate (actually done because we had lots of bits cut out and left over from the fish collage– recognise the colours and the “seaweed” tail?!) …
Read MoreJust photocopied a picture of a fish (kindly drawn by my husband) and decorated with fish scales and green tissue paper seaweed.
Read MoreSam made this at Beavers, so would be difficult for very young children. Large chocolate button sweets were wrapped in silver foil and stuck on using sticky tabs to make …
Read MoreJust paper circles used to make a spring caterpillar picture. If you look closely, you can just about see the caterpillar’s face drawn on.
Read MoreJust a strip of card, bunny ears stapled on, then decorated. I like the pinky coloured tissue paper in the middle. Very cute, and well modelled Rowan x.
Read MoreTwo paper plates stapled together, then decorated by the children. Filled with shredded paper and a chocolate Easter egg.
Read MoreWe 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 cut out and decorated.
Read MoreWe made these at church, and such a simple idea. The teapot shapes took quite a while to cut out- but you could just draw a teapot shape on. The …
Read MoreUsing old egg boxes gives a lovely 3D collage- and it soaks up loads of glue! Decorate with anything that takes your fancy 🙂
Read MoreAnother lovely idea brought home from nursery. They used coloured squares of tissue paper and googly eyes, all stuck on an old milk carton.
Read MoreThis came home from Rowan’s nursery. I loved the idea of using a hole punch and doing some simple weaving with wool. There is a pipe cleaner at the top so …
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