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Arts and Crafts for Kids

"Every Child is an Artist"

Pablo Picasso

Invite creativity into your life, nurture the Artist in them and explore crafts that will set foundations for a creative life

"a creative mind is never a bored"

Valentine Card Crafts for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Valentine Card Crafts for Toddlers and Preschoolers

There is nothing nicer than receiving a homemade Valentine's Card and these fun cards are perfect for making with Toddlers and Preschoolers. Using ...

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Scented Salt Dough Letter Beads to Make a Word Necklace with Kids

Scented Salt Dough Letter Beads to Make a Word Necklace with Kids

For years I have been meaning to make some salt dough letters with the kids. They are great to use in crafts as well as for learning activities. As we ...

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Lavender Scented Salt Dough Hanging Hearts

Lavender Scented Salt Dough Hanging Hearts

Enamoured with all things hearts at the moment my daughter and I decided to create a Lavender Scented Salt Dough Heart Hanging for her room. I love ...

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Coloured Salt Dough Hearts for Threading with Preschoolers

Coloured Salt Dough Hearts for Threading with Preschoolers

Threading is such a simple activity to put together for preschoolers to work on fine motor skills. These Coloured Salt Dough Hearts made with our ...

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Simple Toddler Valentine’s Card with Bubble Wrap Printed Hearts.

Simple Toddler Valentine’s Card with Bubble Wrap Printed Hearts.

Your toddler will love this simple printed Valentine's Card using Bubble Wrap to create a pattern and then you cut out some hearts for them to make ...

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Easy Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils to Make with Kids

Easy Salt Dough Dinosaur Fossils to Make with Kids

Dinosaurs are one of those themes that seem to inspire children around the world, and my two are no different. So having a dinosaur-themed day at ...

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Simple Toddler Valentine Craft to Make a Tissue Paper Heart Card

Simple Toddler Valentine Craft to Make a Tissue Paper Heart Card

This is a simple fun and easy Valentines Card for toddlers to make using tissue paper and glue. This is a simple activity to do with children from ...

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Simple Valentine’s Card for Preschoolers to Make

Simple Valentine’s Card for Preschoolers to Make

With Valentine's Day around the corner, it's time to get creative with your preschoolers and this simple preschool Valentine's Craft is ideal to make ...

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Aliens Love… Flying Saucer Craft for Kids

Aliens Love… Flying Saucer Craft for Kids

Whether it's the Aliens Love... series of books by Claire Freedman or the nursery Rhyme Five Little men in their Flying Saucers. Aliens are such a fun ...

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Aliens Love Panta Claus Alien Ornaments

Aliens Love Panta Claus Alien Ornaments

We love the space theme here at Rainy Day Mum to explore with toddlers upwards and when looking for Christmas Books to feature in Storybook Advent we ...

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Glittered Snowflake Ornaments

Glittered Snowflake Ornaments

Snowflakes are one of our favourite things about Winter. My kids when they were toddlers loved trying to catch them and then when they started school ...

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Mouse Angel Peg Doll Ornaments

Mouse Angel Peg Doll Ornaments

We all know what happens if you give a mouse a cookie…right?  In the sweet book “Merry Christmas Mouse”, by Laura Numeroff the 3rd book of the ...

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Stick Man Paper Plate Puppet Craft

Stick Man Paper Plate Puppet Craft

Stick Man is a firm favourite amongst children, parents and teachers alike, and with good reason; Julia Donaldson has a gift for funny and entrancing ...

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Stick Man Sun Catchers

Stick Man Sun Catchers

One of our new "favourite" Christmas Books is Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and we have a fun simple craft for you to do with your kids to decorate the ...

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Salt Dough Stick Man to Make with Kids

Salt Dough Stick Man to Make with Kids

We are back with our 2nd Christmas Book for this year's Storybook Advent here on Rainy Day Mum. Your fans of Julia Donaldson will love making a fun ...

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Fine Motor Leaf Garland Craft for Kids to Make

Fine Motor Leaf Garland Craft for Kids to Make

We are almost at the end of our first set of activities for Storybook Advent this year all inspired by Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson. ...

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Bear Stays Up for Christmas STEAM Project for Kids

Bear Stays Up for Christmas STEAM Project for Kids

It's December, and for my family, it means reading lots of Christmas-themed books and doing lots of fun-related activities. Bear Stays Up for ...

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Gingerbread House Ornaments for the Christmas Tree

Gingerbread House Ornaments for the Christmas Tree

We've spent some time recently reading some classic "fairy tales" and have decided to create some ornaments for our Christmas tree this year inspired ...

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Rockin’ Gingerbread Men Saltdough Ornaments

Rockin’ Gingerbread Men Saltdough Ornaments

As we count down to Christmas our 2 favourite activities are to get creative and also to head to the cinema for a family movie time. This year we are ...

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Easy Salt Dough Decorations to Make with Toddlers

Easy Salt Dough Decorations to Make with Toddlers

One of our favourite advent activity with toddlers is to make Salt Dough decorations. Salt dough is one of our favourite materials to craft with. It ...

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Keepsake Fingerprint Nutcracker Saltdough Ornament for the Tree

Keepsake Fingerprint Nutcracker Saltdough Ornament for the Tree

When I was a child, my grandmother decided to start a nutcracker collection for each of her grandchildren. Year after year, she would buy us a new one ...

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