We have been studying snails in the Nature Curriculum. Slightly hindered by the snow on the ground, so admittedly it has been mainly theory based. However, it hasn’t stopped us enjoying some snail art and craft. We had lots of ideas, but just did three. I have to rein myself in sometimes as there is so much I want to …
Spring Crafts-9 Sunny Spring Craft Ideas.
Having had the spring equinox on Monday 20th March, we have used this as our theme this week. So all our crafting has been spring crafts. Lots of lovely fun sunny spring craft ideas, to make us feel that we are finally saying goodbye to our long winter (and hat wearing). The first of our spring crafts …
Bird Craft Activities
A new week and we have a new Nature Curriculum topic, nesting birds. We have enjoyed a busy afternoon making and creating bird craft. We picked three to do, but over on my Pinterest page (Mamma’s School) there are lots more ideas if you fancy a peek. Just choosing three meant that we could take our time and enjoy our …
Craft – An Unstructured Play Day
Today is the first day of what is called sportlov (the Swedish for ‘sport’s break’, due to people generally taking off for a week’s skiing). We are staying put, and I have deliberately taken a break from our nature curriculum this week to slow things right down. Today (apart from the weekly food shop, which is never a joy with …
Getting Crafty With Evergreens
This week’s nature curriculum topic is evergreens. There is a lot of fun that can be had doing craft with this theme. All our ideas can be taken outdoors, but not for us this week. With knee deep snow on the ground and minus temperatures, it would have made it rather awkward! Here are the ideas we chose to do. …
Earthworm Craft
This week’s theme in the Nature Curriculum is earthworms. The post is all about our earthworm craft we have been doing at home on the topic of earthworms 🙂 We did four little projects that ranged from being clean activities to thoroughly messy ones!! I hope you enjoy reading about them, and fancy trying one or two at home, to …
Candle Craft
This weeks craft needed to involve candles. I could have kept it easy for myself and just made candles!! However, we had done this recently with a kit our little lady got for her last birthday, so I tried to come up with some alternative ideas. So, here goes!! The first idea was to make candle (tealight) …
Pond Craft – Indoor and Outdoor Crafts
Our nature curriculum theme for this week is ponds. I have been on a mission today, and managed to locate the only pond on the island, so feeling quite pleased with myself that we now don’t have to go far to study this topic! We kicked the topic off today with pond craft ideas. The first idea was to make …
Winter Tree Craft – Nature Weaving, Finger Painting, Journey Sticks, and Decorating Sticks.
The first of our activities, that we chose for this week’s nature art and craft, was nature weaving. We had collected three Y shaped sticks and wound string around the V part; wind it round one branch, pull it across, and then wind it round the other, then pull it back across, and so on, until you have horizontal lines …
Salt Painting.
We’ve been doing some salt paintings. This is a really good activity for little people, and their sense of wonder is really piqued. What you need is: card, glue, salt, and very watered down paints. We used pipettes, but you can use brushes. You dribble/paint the glue onto the card, and then sprinkle salt all over the glue. Tip the …
