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Craft - stained glass Christmas tree

25/12/2017

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2 years 5 months

Well, it’s Christmas morning and I’m awake but A is still asleep. No doubt as soon as I get into doing this he will wake up 😂
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To make a stained ‘glass’ picture you cut out a shape from some paper and lay into onto the sticky side of some contact or clear book covering.

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Then you let the kid go to town sticking random craft stuff down onto it. We had cellophane, patty papers and chocolate foils.
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Make sure you have a border of contact around your paper, so that you can use it to stick the stained glass up into a window.
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Activity - Christmas tree craft

19/12/2017

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2 years 5 months

Christmas trees! When I search Pinterest for Christmas craft ideas there are a lot of snow related images, but unfortunately there is no snow here. In fact there is no hope of snow forming when even the bitumen melts!
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This one seemed like a no brainer after I saw this activity from You Clever Monkey, but I was too lazy to download and print, plus I’m running out of toner. So I folded a green piece of paper in half and chopped into it. A and I glued it into his book and then A drew on it while I got the stuff we needed for the rest of the activity 😆 We covered it with Stampin Up demensionals that you can get from here. Kristy Coromandel is a friend and an awesome craft presenter.


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Then came the buttons. We love buttons around here! So tactile and they make such pretty sounds.
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So on they went.
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And when he was done, he added glitter glue. And who can blame him?
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And finally the finished product!
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Activity - Washi Tape Fun

28/11/2017

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I have a lovely collection of washi tape and Atlas has been allowed to use washi tape before. We usually use to it ‘fix’ up broken cars.

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I selected some bright and geometric designs for this activity and project. Afterwards A made a tower with the tape. He ‘counted’ them as he stacked them, he also talked about whether this one was bigger then that one.
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With his help I laid down some strips of tape. The activity was originally for him to pull them up, but I think he liked the look of it so refused to do that.
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Earlier I had prepared an empty soft drink bottle by cutting off the bottom and giving it a clean and dry. I covered the end with some green masking tape. We then wrapped washi tape around it. A pointed and I put it on, he helped smooth the strips.
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it was meant to be a telescope but A used it as a musical instrument. 🤷🏼‍♀️. Not that it matters because he can’t wink yet.

Both of these activities technically failed, but A still enjoyed them and that’s the main thing.

I got the ideas from Hands on as We Grow, and bought their Early Years Bundle of Activity Plans from here.

There are some great ideas, some of which I am sure I could have made up myself or gotten from a search in Pinterest but I would rather start a folder of ideas that I can just go to without much though.
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Halloween Activity - Apple stamps

24/10/2017

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Stamping using a fruit or vegetable... everyone’s done that. But we’re ‘creeping’ up to Halloween 🎃 so I wanted to do some themed craft activities.
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I kept some apple halves that would normally go out to the compost. Luckily my husband didn’t have a fridge clean out on the weekend.
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We used orange acrylic paint, and two glitter paints - gold and red. A refused to wear the paint smock 😩 but luckily he is a pretty clean crafter. He didn’t get that from me.
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    Hi, I'm Pamela. A nail crazy lady with green hair. I live in outback Queensland with my toddler and my husband.  I love books, writing and crafting.  For more info about me go to my 'About' page.

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