I made these simple wooden rubber band guns with Mr 6 today. It was declared to be "epic" so many times I thought I'd share...

Cheap, easy and quick; making your own kaleidoscope is a great activity to do with the kids. It took us about 20 minutes to gather the mate...

I saw this idea on Build/Make/Craft/Bake , and had to give it a go. I mean seriously, it's using a hammer to squash the colour ou...

Before After This is the perfect activity for yet another rainy afternoon. The technique is easy, colour in a page using water colou...

I'd never seen balloon painting before (I've since seen a beautiful caterpiller on Pinterest using balloon painting). Anyway I th...

This is a portrait Miss 4 did a while back (when she was 3) using the beautiful tutorial at Deep Space Sparkle . Such simple technique b...

A simple nice art activity. First we had a play outside and collected things of all the colours of the rainbow, plus some twigs. I h...

I first saw this on 2 Craft and 2 Create and thought it was a good idea, and so put the thought aside for a time when we wanted to create a...

A lovely little activity. Use air-dry clay to make a candle holder and then stick jewels on using PVA glue.  We use a candle to encoura...

  Just a little painting fun. A few different ways to paint a cherry blossom tree or Jacaranda tree using only Q-tips (cotton buds). ...

Rainbow fun with a white toilet roll.

Anyone searching for a great rainy day boredom buster for the kids, I have to recommend making a kaleidocycle folding paper toy ( Mi...

I was looking for some ideas to use for craft at Playgroup. It had to be mess free due to our venue for the week. I melded a couple of ide...

This was a super activity to start the school holidays with. Mr 5 is doing lots of weather at school, and loving it, and so they we...

Making a Thaumatrope is a fun little activity perfect for a rainy day or holiday. All you need is some paper, sticks (I used kitchen ske...

I had some air dry clay left over from another project and wanted to give some nature prints a go. I remember seeing them previously here...

So it's just home-made play dough, but I love how the colours turned out. At first I tried a jelly crystals recipe, but then I realis...

These were inspired by the finger puppets from Teawagontales and the free print out house pattern from Inner Child Fun (both via C...

I thought I'd share this one, not because it's a work of art. Far from it, just because it's some inspiration for a bit of ha...

We've been a little light on the sharable kinds of craft here recently. I've been very busy making things for a fundraiser market, ...