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I found some out of date pulses in the back of my kitchen cupboards.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…
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I found some out of date pulses in the back of my kitchen cupboards.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…
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…
Made simply with brown wool, scrunched up pink tissue paper and lots of glue!
Use leaves, petals, twigs, grass, what ever you can find, to make a beautiful nature collage. Dandelion seeds give a lovely effect when glued onto…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Just photocopied a picture of a fish (kindly drawn by my husband) and decorated with fish scales and green tissue paper seaweed.
Sam made this at Beavers, so would be difficult for very young children. Large chocolate button sweets were wrapped in silver foil and stuck on…
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.
Just a strip of card, bunny ears stapled on, then decorated. I like the pinky coloured tissue paper in the middle. Very cute, and well…
Two paper plates stapled together, then decorated by the children. Filled with shredded paper and a chocolate Easter egg.
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…
We made these at church, and such a simple idea. The teapot shapes took quite a while to cut out- but you could just draw…
Using old egg boxes gives a lovely 3D collage- and it soaks up loads of glue! Decorate with anything that takes your fancy :)
Another lovely idea brought home from nursery. They used coloured squares of tissue paper and googly eyes, all stuck on an old milk carton.
This 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…