Halloween is just round the corner. Get your pumpkin ready and spend some time making simple arts and crafts with your child.
This Saturday we made ghosts and pumpkins using paper plates, some orange and yellow paint, glue and tissue paper. Simple and quick 🙂
Enjoy.
Halloween Crafts …
That was a party!!! My son just turned 10! Shocking, but true. With his great help we managed to make a Lego Themed party.
We had four stations:
– creative station for making your own Lego comic, making Lego name badge, Lego mask or creating own Lego Minifigure
– building station, where we had few games for creating a tallest tower, a car and other Lego creations
– game station, where we played Lego Bingo, Lego Creationary and Lego straw game
– food and drink station with lots of Lego food and a Lego Birthday cake
We had few games outside – Lego and spoon race and Lego Toss game – where children were throwing Lego pieces into different sizes rings to get some points.
We also had Lego decorations everywhere, Lego books displayed, Lego magazines in a bathroom, Lego soap (a piece of Lego inside a piece of soap) and lots of mini Lego prizes.
It was a lot of Lego everywhere!!
Autumn is great! Full of free treasures for your child, from colourful leaves, to conkers, acorns, twigs and many more. There are plenty of activities you can do, from going on an Autumn’s walk, collecting all the free resources for painting, sticking, making collages and many more. Enjoy jumping in puddles and kicking leaves. Listen to the sounds as the water splashes and leaves scrunch underfoot.
Last time I used leaves to paint and explore the colours…
My favourite Autumn Song:
Autumn Leaves are Falling (tune to “Mary had a Little Lamb”)
Autumn leaves are falling down,
Falling down, falling down,
Autumn leaves are falling down,
Yellow, red and brown.
*
Find a broom and start to sweep,
Start to sweep, start to sweep,
Find a broom and start to sweep,
Yellow, red and brown.
*
And make them in a great big heap,
A great big heap, a great big heap,
And make them in a great big heap,
Yellow, red and brown.
*
But here comes the wind to blow them round,
Blow them round, blow them round,
Here comes the wind to blow them round,
and blow them all away.
Today an easy activity and something you can actually eat after making it with your child.
It is a buttery shortbread recipe cutted into any shapes your child likes and it can be decorated after.
You will need:
– 150g plain flour
– 3 tablespoons rice flour
– 100g butter
– few drops of food colouring
– up to you if you want to add sugar (50g) or just drizzle of honey
What to do:
– help your child to lay a sheet of baking paper into a tray
– let your child mix the flours, honey with their hands; then to add butter in one or two big lumps and let your child work it into the dry ingredients with their fingers, squishing and kneading it into a soft dough
– help your child to add the food colouring and squish the dough
– help your child press out the dough with the ball of their hand until it is about 5mm thick
– use a floured cutters so your child can cut out the shapes and place them on the baking sheet
– let your child brush the shapes with a little egg
– bake for 10 minutes or until golden around the edges
Have a nice time!
Playdough is another easy activity with children any ages.
There are plenty of recipes to make playdough.
You can encourage children to make playdough with you and let them choose tools.
I love to play with rollers and cupcake cases. You can add lots of things likes couscous, glitter, dry pasta or lentils.
Last time I used only plain flour, warm water, oil and herbs. On the end children added mushy peas and it was very messy! Love it
Few recipes for easy playdough:
Basic dough
– 3 cups of plain flour
– 1 cup of salt
– water to mix
Oily dough:
– 3 cups of plain flour
– 3 spoons of oil
– warm water to mix
Stretchy dough
– 3 cups of self-raising flour
– water to mix
–  you can add little spoon of cream of tartar and food colouring
Oily dough 2:
– 3 cups plain flour
– 1 cup of salt
– water to mix
– 2 spoons of oil
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