🐌 Try at Home: Model Snails!
Create your own little snail friends using clay or homemade playdough, a conker for the shell, and any loose parts you can find for the eye stalks; twigs, beads, or pasta all work wonderfully! 🌿
To make your own playdough, simply mix flour, water, and a splash of oil- a perfect hands-on activity for fine motor skills, creativity, and exploring natural materials.
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🎨✨ Try this at home!
Foraged berries can make beautiful natural paints- a creative, sensory way for little hands to explore colour and texture. 🍓🫐🌿
💡 Safety tip: Before picking, use Google Lens (or a reliable guide) to check which berries are safe for children to handle. Some are just for looking, not for touching!
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🎨 Try at Home: Pinecone Rolling Art! 🌲
Let your little one explore colours, movement, and texture with this fun process art activity! Simply line a tray with paper, dip pinecones in paint, and roll them around to create beautiful, unexpected patterns. It’s all about the process- not the product! 🖌️✨
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🦶🎨 Don't limit your creativity to just your hands: mark-making with your feet can stimulate a whole new level of imagination and unlock different parts of the brain. Give it a try at home and you might be surprised at what your child is capable of!
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Who says you have to be at Glastonbury to enjoy an outdoor performance? 🌳🎶 Our preschoolers love dancing and singing on our outdoor stage, surrounded by nature.
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If you'd like to try a spring craft activity with your child at home, why not have a go at making these flowers from old egg boxes? They can be cut in different ways to resemble different types of flower and then children can paint them their preferred colour and add tissue paper for embellishment.
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Have you ever tried painting outdoors? We've noticed love children exploring the light and shade that comes with painting in the garden, and if you want to try it at home, you don't need to worry about getting paint on the furniture!
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Hapa Zome, meaning "leaf dye" in Japanese, is a printmaking technique where natural pigments from leaves and flowers are transferred onto fabric or paper by pounding them with a hammer or mallet. Simply sandwich some leaves or flowers between 2 pieces of fabric and bash with a hammer until enough pigment has been released to dye it!
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