Yesterday I shared the cute paper plate badger that I made this week with my daughter and today it’s the turn for this sweet paper plate fox! Both my children made these paper plate crafts but my son decided to use his for a bit of scissor practice before I managed to get the camera out. Never mind, one of the nice things about paper plate crafts is that they are so cheap to do and with a craft this cute I don’t mind doing it again next week!
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Today has been yet another rainy kind of day so I thought it would be a good idea to drag the kids away from the tv and do a bit of crafting. I love paper plate crafts as they’re so cheap and easy to do – you can normally get a pack of paper plates for a pound meaning that it doesn’t matter if things don’t go exactly to plan. We’ve been taking a lot of walks in the wood recently watching the season start to change so I thought it would be fun to make some woodland animals, this here is our paper plate badger and you can also check out our paper plate fox!
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So it would appear that on Kate’s Big List Of Parenting Things I Forgot To Do is teach scissor skills to my son. I know this to be true because this week I realised that we don’t seem to own any kids scissors, oops. Thankfully I know that scissor skills are something that he’s been doing at his playgroup anyway but what’s wrong with supporting that at home? These cute scissor skills snakes not only helped improve his use of scissors but we loved making them too and he’s been playing with them ever since we made them!
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Do your kids like stickers? Mine are obsessed! I’m quite happy for them to play with them because they’re great for fine motor skills and because they’re a really quiet and calm activity too, but after a while I thought they might like something to do with them other than just stick them on a bit of paper. They’re are loads of ways that your kids can play and learn with stickers and most of them are pretty cheap ways to keep your kids busy too!
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Advert. I’ve really enjoyed being a Miffy Mum this year. Both my kids love Miffy anyway but it’s helped inspire a few ideas that I might not have thought of otherwise.
Keeping toddlers entertained can be tricky, especially before they can talk and tell you what they want to do. Of course, at nearly two years old my toddler has lots of ways of communicating with us, but her main messages seem to be ‘more crackers’ or ‘look at my shoes! I love my shoes!’ rather than ‘hey mummy, lets do some activities for toddlers to improve my fine motor skills that are also super cute too’. Thankfully on some occasions I manage to fill in the blanks for her so while we spent a morning alone I set up this sweet Miffy activity for her to do!
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