St. Patrick’s Day Play Dough & Loose Parts Bonnie Scorer February 11, 2019 Activities, Winter/ Valentine's Day 2019 We give you 3 simple set-up ideas for play dough for St. Patrick's Day using loose parts! Materials Play dough (see below for our favourite recipe or buy commercial play doh) Loose parts (see...
Butterfly Valentine Card Bonnie Scorer February 4, 2019 Activities, Winter/ Valentine's Day 2019 Who doesn't love a butterfly!? Print out this fluttery beauty to decorate to make your own Valentine's Day cards to accompany a pencil, bubble wand etc. Personalize it with whatever materials you have at...
Snow Person Writing Activity Bonnie Scorer January 29, 2019 Activities, Winter/ Valentine's Day 2019 You can use this free template for various types of writing: procedural (steps to making something), descriptive (describing an object, location, person etc.) and for narratives (story writing). It could be...
Llama Valentine’s Day Box Bonnie Scorer January 21, 2019 Activities, Winter/ Valentine's Day 2019 15 Comments Transform a tissue box into a llama Valentine's Day box to hold all your cards and treasures! This recycled craft comes with five free, printable templates for you to chose from and design and...
Valentine’s Day Bracelet Bonnie Scorer January 14, 2019 Activities, Winter/ Valentine's Day 2019 2 Comments Each summer we lead a children's program and one of the centres that we always have is making friendship bracelets. The kids love to give them to one another and it lends to community building. We are...
Snow Person Winter Maze Bonnie Scorer January 7, 2019 Activities, Winter/ Valentine's Day 2019 A few years back we made a bug maze for our eldest son to further explore magnetism and this year when our daughter was learning about magnets at school, she wanted to replicate her maze idea at home (with a...
Snow Person Pinch Pot Bonnie Scorer January 7, 2019 Activities, Winter/ Valentine's Day 2019 We have been inspired by Red Ted Art's various pinch pots (lovely sunflowers, fall leaves, poppies) and wanted to make one of our own. We show you a basic snowman or snow woman model that you could then put...
Paper Bag Poinsettias Bonnie Scorer December 7, 2018 Activities, Winter Holidays/ Christmas 2018 4 Comments We have been in awe of all the variations of the paper lunch bag stars and snowflakes out there, particularly those of Babble Dabble Do's (https://babbledabbledo.com/make-paper-stars-lunch-bags/) and wanted to...
Cursive Writing Christmas Sack Bonnie Scorer November 29, 2018 Activities, Winter Holidays/ Christmas 2018 We recently received a copy of Creative Adventures in Cursive by Rachelle Doorley of Tinkerlab (https://tinkerlab.com/). We have been long time followers of her ideas and her creative challenges and were...
Design Your Own Submarine Bonnie Scorer November 28, 2018 Activities, Winter Holidays/ Christmas 2018 Our kids have been enjoying the series of influential scientists (Dr. Temple Grandin, Dr. Patricia Bath) and we were excited to read the next book in the Innovation Press...
