I’m not ashamed to admit that we are a bit obsessed with making suncatchers, they’re so pretty and easy to make and they cheer the place up a bit, very necessary or a grey autumnal day! Today I’m sharing some of my favourite autumn suncatchers that kids can make, perfect for keeping the kids busy if you’re stuck indoors and need a bit of a creative outlet to keep them occupied.
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With Earth Hour this weekend and Earth Day coming up I thought it would be fun to do a little Earth themed craft with my daughter and these Earth suncatchers are what we came up with!
At three years old we haven’t been massively studying the solar system but she listens along quite happily when I read about it with her brother and has spotted planets from our back garden before, besides it’s never too early to start teaching kids about our planet and how important looking after it is!
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Yesterday I did a super brave thing, I got the glitter out. I know that if you write about kids crafts then somehow you are expected to automatically love glitter but this mama has spent too long cleaning the stuff up to be a big fan of it! We did find a way to keep the mess under control though and I think our winter tree suncatchers worked out really well!
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We love making Halloween suncatchers. My son made this cool stained glass pumpkin suncatcher last year and this week I’ve been sharing some more suncatcher ideas over on the Edplace blog. There’s only one problem with this though. The toddler, she really, really does not like to be left out. It gets loud. So I’m thinking that maybe as we’re still reading Fox’s Socks she might not quite be ready for Mary Shelly’s novel, but this fun stained glass frankenstein suncatcher was a good way to introduce mixing colours and it was a whole heap of fun too.
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I’ve had lots of fun sharing Elmer the Elephant crafts on the Crafts on Sea Facebook page this week and as it’s quite a new story to us I thought it might be nice to try an Elmer craft of our own with this cute suncatcher!
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