Kid made jewellery

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I was looking for a simple friendship bracelet craft for the Sunday School group that I teach when I came across this fantastic tutorial from Club Chicca Circle, so I thought I'd give it a go with the boys.  It's a perfect craft for them as it involves hardware (hello diy store) and perfect for me as it was dirt cheap (yey!).

Shaving Foam Painting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to another Outdoor Play Party!  This week we did a little shaving foam painting in the chilly sunshine.  A little messy, but a fun sensory way to paint.

What to do outdoors in the rain? (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to the Outdoor Play Party!  If you've been outdoors playing with kids then please do link up, we'd love to share your ideas.  It's done nothing but rain here recently and I've been a bit stumped for ideas for outdoor play in the rain, so I've had a dig through the archives and come up with some great activities that we've done before that we are going to do again!  Read on to find out more....

Potion Making (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back to another Outdoor Play Party!  The weather here has been rubbish, we've been outside lots, but I haven't set any play stuff up for the boys for ages.  So in a rare ray of sunshine we had some potion making fun.

Our Favorite Fall Activities (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party, if you've played outside with kids this week, why not link up below.  We love Autumn (Fall) and it's a brilliant time of year to get outside, not too hot, not too cold and loads of natural stuff (leaves, conkers, acorns etc) to play with.  So here's a round up of some of our favourite ways to play outside this fall.

Blackberry Splat Painting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome back!  It's another exciting Outdoor Play Party, if you've been outside with kids then please do link up your activity ideas below.  This week we've been taking advantage of the last few wild blackberries around and have done some berry splat painting!

Marbles and Mud (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Hooray for another Outdoor Play Party!  You'll be pleased to hear that the British weather is now hot, hot, hot so the outdoor play is pretty much constant, plus the school holidays start tomorrow - more cheers at least from the boys!!  If you've been playing outdoors don't forget to link up below.  

We've been digging for treasure in the dirt, this activity definitely required a bath afterwards so maybe it should be a three splatter, at least we didn't add water this time!  Read on to find out what we got up to...

Summer Love Books Exchange - Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers

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We love books so have been really excited to take part in The Educator's Spin On It Love Books Exchange.  Basically bloggers are paired up and you each send one another a kids book and related crafts.  We were matched with The Gingerbread House who we sent Aliens Love Underpants (a household favourite) and we received Up and Down by Oliver Jeffers plus no less than FIVE crafts.  Here's how we got on...

Dragon Hunting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party!  If you've been outside playing with your kids this week then please do link up below.

This week we've been Dragon Hunting!  This activity was all Hubby's idea and involved catapults and colouring, this is what we got up to.....

Angry Bird T-shirt Printing

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Bud recently had his fifth birthday, last year he requested an Angry Bird party and this year he asked for an Angry Bird Star Wars party.  Not wanting to disappoint I put my crafting hat on and came up with some fun games, but my favourite activity was the T-shirt printing we did with the kids.

Gardening with young kids (& Outdoor Play Party)

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It's Outdoor Play Party again and we've been gardening.  If you've been outside with kids then link up below.

Last year Champ really enjoyed growing tomatoes, then at Preschool he began to enjoy digging up potatoes and declared that he loved gardening so to encourage his new found 3yr old passion I decided that perhaps this year I too should learn to garden.  

It's been fun, we've made lots of mistakes, but I've also learnt lots too namely how to garden with kids.  Here are my top tips for gardening with young kids.

Make your own snow

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I saw Growing a Jeweled Roses' Summer Snow the other day and knew we had to test it out.  All you need to create your own snow is shaving foam and a freezer, I also hid a few toys in ours.  This is how we got on...

Dinosaur Small World

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Some super quick summer play today, this kept all three boys (5,3 and 18mths) entertained for ages and all we needed was sand, water and a few dinosaurs.

5 ways to play with tires (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party, if you've played outside this week then please do link up below.   

Recently we had to replace several tyres (tires) on our car, Hubby was not impressed, but having seen lots of exciting play ideas from Learning for Life and Let the Children Play and knew the boys would have great fun playing with the tyres.  This is what they came up with...

How to make a water wheel (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to another Outdoor Play Party!  If you've been outdoors playing this week please do link up below.

We've very much been enjoying the warmer weather, it makes it so much easier to get outside, plus we got the opportunity to test out a project Bud has wanted to do for a while - make a water wheel.

Styrofoam Printing

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We've done lots of different types of painting, but one I've had pinned for ages from The Chocolate Muffin Tree, but not had the chance to do yet is Styrofoam Printing so when Hubby brought some Styrofoam packaging home the other day I thought we'd give it a go...

Boing Painting (& Outdoor Play Party)

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Welcome to the Outdoor Play Party, if you've been playing outside this week please join up below.  Recently we did some outdoor 'boing' painting, this was originally inspired by some Yo Yo Painting from Irresistible Ideas for Play Based Learning and I've also seen similar recently at Toddler Approved when they did Splat Painting.

The basic idea is to put something heavy in tights (pantyhose), we used Plasticine  dab it in paint and 'boing' it up and down onto paper.  Here's how we got on....

Easter No Bake Kids Cooking

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I like cooking with the kids, but my favourite type of cooking with them doesn't involve the oven or hob as our kitchen is small and the boys are into everything so no bake cooking is always far less stressful for me!  I came across the idea for these Easter chicks at Living Locurto and thought I'd make them a nest to go in.  Here's what I did....

Kid made bronze sculpture

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We're joining in with Red Ted Art's Kids Get Arty this week, the idea is to explore a great artist, discuss it with your kids then create a child appropriate art activity.  Our boys are always much more into the process than the end result so we chose to look at bronze sculptures rather than one specific artist, but as bronze requires a very complex process and incredible heat we went with Plaster of Paris instead.

Coffee Filter Spring Craft & Blog Hop

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We are delighted to be taking part in the Spring Blog Hop, at the end of this post you will find heaps of Spring crafts to keep you and your kids busy.  The Spring craft that we are sharing is our coffee filter flowers.  These were quick and easy to make and can be used for some pretty Spring sun catchers.