Just a quick post for me today but I was so pleased with this quick make of mine I had to share it! This project involved my current favourite thing to craft with (pumpkins) and my long term love (washi tape) so decorating pumpkins with washi tape seemed like the most sensible idea in the world to me!
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So I *might* be a bit obsessed with the mini pumpkins I bought last week. Ok, I totally am. But after the diamante decorations I did myself I thought it would be fun to let my toddler in on the action. He loved it before when we used lots of different materials to paint with (the glee of something other than a paintbrush!) so I thought he would enjoy painting on a different kind of surface. I think that pumpkin painting for toddlers can be a bit tricky as pumpkins are so bright so we used white pumpkins to make it easier to see what my toddler had painted!
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Halloween is quickly approaching so I thought it would be good to share some bat crafts for preschoolers, perfect for little ones that want to get in on the fun but not so scary that you’ll be dealing with nightmares!
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You know how sometimes great ideas pop into your head? Well ten minutes before I was due to pick up my son from playgroup I had this idea for this easy autumn tree craft and I knew we had to make it. Thankfully it was stupidly quick to prepare and it made the journey back from playgroup much more fun so I thought that I would share it! I’ve also shared some of our favourite autumn crafts for kids at the end of this post so make sure you check those out too.
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With summer coming (and ending!) a bit too early round here this year we’ve been finding lots of ripe blackberries cropping up at the sides or roads and in the loacl woods. I thought it would be fun to try some blackberry crafts as I really wanted to try something with my son that would give us the chance to try out a few new textures, creating our own blackberry wreath seemed the perfect way to do this!
A paper plate (cut out the middle bit to make a wreath shape)
Leaves
Paint (any but you need something blacky / purple for the blackberries)
Bubble wrap
Paper
Scissors
Glue
Me and The Toddler had lots of fun out hunting in our garden for leaves to paint while his sister was having a nap, I guess it feels a bit naughty to a kid as its not paper?! He then painted the leaves red while we had a little chat about how the colours of leaves change during the seasons.
While they were drying we then painted the bubble wrap – lots of fun as it feels strange to little people!
Some of the bubble wrap we used for printing onto paper, the bubbly effect makes it look like the bumps on a blackberry. We also had a bit of a chat about all the foraging we’ve done so far, I’m very pro taking kids foraging especially as it’s saving me a small fortune on soft fruit at the moment!
We also painted some of the bubble wrap a slightly different colour so we could have textured blackberries too.
I cut out the two different kinds of blackberries for him (wobbly lines on the paper, triangles on the bubble wrap as anything cleverer than that was way beyond me) and then he stuck them and the leaves onto the paper plate to make his blackberry wreath!
I’m loving all the autumn crafts that are filling my Pinterest feed at the moment, have you made anything yet?!