This months Bostik crafts is themed around the ocean. We had lots of ‘fishy’ goodies in our craft box, perfect for Lamb to create some under the sea pictures.
We kicked things off with some fun and colourful foam stickers on shiny blue card. Pretty simple crafting but Lamb loved it! Nothing more exciting than some stickers to a 2 year old!
We also made some window art, which is now taking pride of place on our kitchen window!
If you’re stuck for something to do with your little one, crafts like this are ideal. You can pick up stickers and shapes from most supermarkets or crafty shops and let them go wild!
Here’s Lamb’s finished product…
Next up we created a sand and sea inspired picture using paint, card, blu tac glue and wooden shapes.
After using sand colour paint to cover the card (and the carpet!) I gave Lamb the Blu Tack glue stick to stick the wooden shapes to his picture. This glue stick is great for kids, because it goes on blue so you can see exactly where they have put it! But dries clear, so you have to be quick to wipe it up if they go a bit mad! 😉
We then used some blue glitter to decorate the picture. Lamb loved this part, plenty of glue and plenty of glitter, in fact, all of the glitter, everywhere. Luckily Mummy Lamb had the hoover handy!
This sort of picture can be directed at plenty of themes. Christmas, Halloween, or Easter. Just change the colours and shapes and you can have lots of fun creating themed glitter art.
Finally we had some fun drawing around Lamb’s hands to create a crab picture. This is pretty self explanatory so I’ll show you with photos…
After drawing around both of Lambs hands and colouring them in with red glitter, I cut them out and stuck them onto a piece of colourful card. We had a couple of plastic eyes left from Januarys craft box (yes, I’ve been keeping everything left over to use again) to finish off the crab picture.
As you can see he’s pretty impressed with his glittery hands!
Using such simple supplies you can create many different pieces of art with your little ones. Cheap and cheerful products, usually available in your local supermarket, can give you hours of crafty fun.
What crafty things have you been getting up to?
Alex x
* The craft box was provided to me free of charge by Bostik as part of the Tots100/Bostik Craft Bloggers Club.
What a great idea to use the shiny card as sea background and the cellophane for a window display! I think I might be borrowing these ideas over the summer 🙂
Love seeing your bostik creations.
Sorry my comments are so late this week, thanks for linking #toddlerapprovedtuesday xx
these looks fab. Daniel is obsessed with stickers – I’ve just ordered £15 worth from baker ross to keep him busy! Love the glitter hands – I’m not brave enough to use glitter with my two though!
thanks for sharing #toddlerapprovedtuesday
The glitter was everywhere… I’m still finding it now! X
Wow, these look like great crafts!! I am a sucker for anything sea/ocean/fish related so I will probably end up trying a few of these over the week. I have never heard of blu tak glue stick – where do you get it from? It sounds really fab for little ones. I love the window piece and, even though I have a huge phobia of crabs (odd for a fish freak, I know!), that one looks ADORABLE. Ray xx
Fab glad you like our crafts! I hadn’t heard of it either until I got this one. I’m pretty sure you can grab them in most supermarkets or stationary shops. The crab pic was really fun to make, Lamb loved it when I traced around his hands! x