Category Archives: Arts and Crafts

Arts and Crafts: Sensory art…the moon and its craters:

Arts and Crafts, Online Curriculum Week 3

Watering Whole @Home Curriculum Week 3

Materials you will need:
-black paper or card
-white crayon or chalk
-something round to trace the Moon shape
-flour, water (and white powder paint if you have)
-paint brush
-something small and round like a bottle top to make our craters with
-star stickers
 
Directions:
1. Trace a circle on your black paper

We tore up and glued on tissue paper for extra texture which was a wonderful fine motor component, but wasn’t really necessary.

2. Mix together flour and water (and white powder paint) into a thick paste and paint in your moon

3. Press your circular bottle top onto your Moon to create some craters and add some stars

Because the mixture is quite thick it takes a couple of days to dry.

Arts and Crafts, Fine Motor and Numeracy: Counting lady birds

Arts and Crafts, Numeracy, Online Curriculum Week 2

Watering Whole @Home Curriculum Week 2

Here is a simple craft activity that links in beautifully with our concept focus (the colour red), and our Nature focus (bugs) and can be used for a fun counting activity too.

For this activity, you will need ten ladybirds made out of an egg carton. Invite your child to paint the egg carton red like a ladybird and when it is dry cut out your lady birds and stick on/draw googly eyes.

You will then draw one black spot on the first one, two spots on the next one, three spots on the next one, and continue this pattern up to the number 10.



The goal of the activity is for your child to count the ladybug spots and then put the ladybugs in sequential order from 1-10.

 

Additional ideas: 

You can also put the corresponding number inside of each egg carton for your child to check their counting. 

You can also give the child dried beans to count out and put the correct number in each egg cup.

Simple Easter Craft – melted crayon technique:

Arts and Crafts, Online Curriculum Week 1

Watering Whole @Home Curriculum Week 1

Here is a really fun and simple Easter craft idea to do this week: decorating your Easter eggs using the melted crayon technique:

  
The trick is to draw on the eggs whist they are still hot so the wax melts.

Boil your eggs and take them out whilst they are still very hot using tongs and place them back into your egg carton.

Explain a few times to your child that they should not to touch the eggs with their hands, but just draw on them with their crayons.  

Next fill a few cups/bowls with a mixture of food colouring, half a cup of boiling water and 1tsp of vinegar for each colour. Let the eggs sit for about five minutes in the dye on each side.

Zakai and Kamali have done these before and absolutely loved it.



Other Activity:

We usually do a little treasure hunt with your children and based on their age/stage, we either do a guided search with hot/cold terms used for when they are close or far from the discovery. For the older ones (especially the Giraffes), we usually create picture clues or even a treasure map for them to follow. This game is such fun and can be tailored to any age and can either involve quite a lot of prep and input from your side (creating clues or a treasure map), or can be done simply and requiring no prep with verbal prompts in the moment

Colouring Page:

Download Easter themed colouring page PDF here