Passion fruit scented playdough

Passion fruit scented playdough
This is a passion fruit scented playdough that children will love playing with. Non edible, but lots of fun and great for sensory development

Ingredients
2 cups plain flour
1 cup salt
2 tbsp oil
4 tbsp cream of tartar
2 cups boiling water
2 or 3 passion fruit infused teabags
6 drops of yellow food colouring

Instructions
Begin by mixing all dry ingredients together in a large bowl
Infuse passion fruit tea bags in boiling water and set aside for 1 minute
Combine all wet ingredients with dry ingredients and knead dough well

Notes
Not edible
Supervision required at all times

Benefits of play dough

Putting some play dough on a table and children seem to come running. It’s so much fun and there are also many benefits to getting your children to play with it. Here are just a few – 

• Open ended and comes without rules
• Sensory development 
• Fine motor skills are strengthened through playing with play dough
• Creativity and imagination 
• Enhance social interactions as children play with it together
• Cooking skills achieved when involved in the making process

• and more!

Button Snail

Button Snail

Materials Needed:

• Buttons
• CD
• Card stock Paper
• Glue
• Pipe Cleaner
• Googly Eyes
• Black Marker

Directions: 

To start you’re going to cut out a shape for your snail out of card stock paper. Make sure to make it big enough to leave some room so that you can glue it to your cd.

If you don’t have an old cd to reuse for this craft you can use a piece of cardboard, just cut it into a circle big enough for the snails shell. 

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Rice Art

Rice Art 

There are so many different ways to colour rice out there that require alcohol or vinegar to ‘set’ the colour but I have found that I have never really needed to this and skip this part completely.

It is so easy to make and you can use coloured rice for all kinds of sensory activities, art and crafts.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED?

1 cup dried rice. (I use jasmine rice because I love the smell!)

1 teaspoon food colouring (I have also used diluted paint before with the same outcome.)

Paper towels

Tray or plate (this for drying the rice)

A container with a screw on lid on.

• Add food colouring to the container and pour in one cup of rice.
• Screw on the lid and shake, shake, shake until the rice is completely covered.
• Add a little more food colouring if needed to achieve desired colour.
• Place the wet rice our onto a paper towel and plate.
• Using a spoon spread the wet rice out evenly to dry out. If it is a sunny day, I place the wet rice out in the sun to air dry.
• Give the container a wipe and a rinse, and proceed with your next colour!
• When the rice is dry, gently rub the rice between your fingers to break up any rice that may be stuck together.
• Coloured rice will last for several years if stored correctly in an air-tight container. 

Then create picture with the rice.. The list is endless. I will post more ideas on what you can do with the colouring rice. Enjoy

Colouring in Benefits

Hi everyone, 
Art is a good way to relax, express creativity. Everyone can draw etc. There benefits for colouring in. I love it because if I have a sore head or just wanting to relax I colouring. I have been drawing, which I will make into line art for you all soon. 

Here are the benefits 
1- Colouring helps a child practice holding a writing tool the correct way and aids in developing those tiny muscles in their hands, fingers, and wrist. 

2- Colouring aids in hand-eye coordination as the child learns to colour within the specified area.
3- Children develop the skill of patience and learn to focus on details when colouring. Such a sense of accomplishment is achieved when a colouring page is completed. 
4- Colouring allows a child to relax and be comfortable while creating a piece of art. Children can fill in the figures and shapes on the page any way they choose, whereas drawing can sometimes be a little intimidating that the outcome won't be exactly as they wanted. 
5- Colouring a simple printed page helps a child to recognise colour, hue, line, perspective, shape and form. It also helps a child to see and recognise patterns - a pre-reading and pre-math skill. 
6- Eventually a child can even learn to plan as they decide the colours they will use in their picture and then what order they are going to colour things within the picture.
7- Last, but not least, colouring can allow you and your child to have some quality quiet time together.  It can provide a wonderful time to sit and chat with your child. 

So grab some colouring in pencils, crayons, paints etc and some sheets from Happy Kid's Corner or even draw some.. And ENJOY!!

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Summer Camp 2016

Summer Camp of 2016 is coming to a close. We have learnt and tried new crafts etc and had a blast. I haven't learnt things too... Next project is in the works. I am even looking at next year for summer camp. 

We have learnt

• how to make puffy
• jewellery 
• pasta art 
• pictures 
• moon sand
• play doh 
• and lots more

Thank you to everyone who has attended :) 

See you all soon :)

Minion Finger Puppet

To make Minion finger puppets you will need:

Felt in yellow, blue and black. (Felt packs available in the Range)

Googley eyes

Cotton – I used black, blue and a see through thread.

Needle

Pins

Super glue

Card or paper for your template

Instructions:

The first and most important thing is to make a template that will fit around your finger after you’ve finished sewing. Draw a fat finger shape and then cut it out to check the fit.

Pin your finger template onto your yellow felt and cut around it. Do this twice so you have a front and a back piece.

Pin the template onto your blue felt and cut around it, this is for their dungarees. Chop a bit off the top and cut out the dungaree shape. I did this freehand but if you’re worried you could always cut your template into the shape you want first and then cut around that.

From your black felt cut out a long thin strip to use for the glasses, a small circle for the logo on their dungarees and two arms and hands. I did originally think of doing the arms as part of the main body but frankly it was a faff and I’m all about trying to keep things as simple as possible! This is what your assembled bits of felt should look like.

Next start sewing on the pieces that will be on the outside of your minion finger puppet, you need to do this before you sew the front and the back together. The order I did mine in was overalls, then black band for glasses, then the black circle. I left cutting the band for the eyes until the whole puppet was complete as I wanted to make sure it was the right length.

The next thing is the mouth.

Now you’re ready to sew the two pieces together. Pin them together with the black arms

in place where you want them, make sure they poke far enough in that your sewing will hold them in place.

Finally use some super glue to stick your googley eyes in place and your minion finger puppet is ready to go. Use one or two eyes depending on what minion you want to make.

(You can use super glue instead of sewing but if sewing please be careful)