With Halloween around the corner it’s time for some themed arts & crafts and this week I got Daddy on the job!
Using paper plates and other crafts goodies from this months Bostik box Daddy helped Lamb make a bat and a witch… oooooh scary! 😉
So what did Daddy and Lamb use to make these Halloween plate characters? Not much!
You will need:
- Coloured paper plate (or white ones that you can paint yourself).
- Something orange for the witches hair (we used paper leaves, but shredded tissues paper will do).
- Something for eyes (we used buttons and stick on eyes).
- Black card or foam for the witches hat and the bat wings and ears.
- White card for the bats mouth and fangs.
- Black sharpie pen to draw the witches face.
- Blu Tac glue stick and sticky dots.
Crafts like this are so simple yet so exciting for the little ones. You really din’t have to be Andy Warhol to create stuff with your kids! Lamb was blown away with what they had made and couldn’t wait to show me.
Sorry this was such a quick crafts post, life is super busy at the mo, but we are making sure we find time for arty fun as Lamb is really enjoying it at the mo.
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* The craft box was provided to me free of charge by Bostik as part of the Tots100/Bostik Craft Bloggers Club.
1. Painting. We have a selection of paints in our house for Lamb to use, and lots of other supplies. This is such an easy activity and needs minimal materials. Paper, paint, brushes. No paper? Then cut up an old cereal box or recycle old letters or junk mail! Seriously, theses kids really don’t mind what they paint on. Also, you don’t always need brushes. Old sponges or even their hands and feet will do!
2. Jigsaws. Lamb absolutely loves jigsaws. He has a 
I got for his 2nd birthday and he will sit and play with it for hours. I highly recommend having a selection of jigsaws in the house. This is something you can enjoy too!
5. Aquadoodle. If you don’t own an 
one to take out with you.
. There are a few ways you can making learning with flash cards fun. Simply show them and ask if they know the word/picture. Lay them all out of the floor and say “can you find me the apple?” Or turn them upside down and ask them to pick one, if they know it they keep it, if they don’t put it back down and let them try again. You’ll be surprised how quickly they remember the new words!
7. Stamping/Printing. This is lots of fun if your little one likes mark making. You can use absolutely anything to create pictures using stamping or printing. The bottom of fizzy drinks bottles, the wheels on a toy car, cookie cutters or even toilet rolls tubes. Anything can make a mark on a piece of paper. Why not look around the house and collects some bits to do some stamping. Or even get out into the garden and pick up some old leaves and twigs and and create textured printing. Lamb also likes using his dinosaur stamping set from Melissa & Doug.
8. Baking. Lamb loves watching me in the kitchen. I love baking, particularly cupcakes, so I like to get him involved as much as I can to turn it into a fun activity for both of us. I put him in his high chair with his apron and chef’s hat and give him his own bowl and spoon to play with. Most of the time he doesn’t even have any ingredients, he just enjoys pretend mixing and banging the spoon on the bottom of the pan! Now Lamb is well into his 2’s I’m going to start letting him do more baking with me, so will be looking at getting his own baking set. He loves feeling like he’s doing ‘grown up’ stuff and always says “Jaxsix do it” when I try to help him. Bless!
