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      Bird Nest Craft

      Bonnie Scorer
      April 14, 2014
      Activities, Easter, Featured On, Nests, Spring, Thought You Might Like...
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    • Using the provided template and reused paper (envelopes, magazines, gift wrap etc.) to make this recycled craft. This winter craft is a fun way to explore how you can reuse items to create a unique snowman or snow woman! If you create this kids' craft, we'd love to see it!

      Recycled Snow Person

      Bonnie Scorer
      January 12, 2021
    • Snow Plough Play Tray: With these printable roads and snowy scene (http://make-it-your-own.com/snow-plough-play-tray/) you can create a winter sensory tray where children clear the snow. We also have several sensory ideas that you can use for snow!

      Snow Plough Play Tray

      Bonnie Scorer
      January 4, 2021
    • Use these printables to turn a juice or milk carton into a 3D gingerbread house! Complete with printable gingerbread people, trees and paper candies to decorate! This makes a great Christmas small world play scene for kids using recyclables!

      Beverage Carton Gingerbread House and Play Scene

      Bonnie Scorer
      December 14, 2020
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    • Finger Puppets and a Recycled Kleenex Box Theatre! Included are printable characters (Santa, Reindeer and Woodland Animals) and a background scene (one winter-y and one you can design yourself) to attach to your recycled Kleenex tissue box stage to make a theatre!

      Christmas Finger Puppets and Tissue Box Theatre

      Bonnie Scorer
      December 9, 2020
    • Angel puppet or Christmas tree ornament printable template. Use this pattern to make a handmade ornament craft for kids! #ornament #christmasornament #handmadeornament #christmastreeornament #ornament #ornaments #kidschristmascraft #puppet #puppettemplate #angelcraft #angeltemplate

      Paper Angel Puppet

      Bonnie Scorer
      November 30, 2020
    • Beaded Christmas Ornaments: We show you how to make a snow person/ snowman, Santa and a Christmas tree ornament all out of wooden beads! These cute holiday ornaments make a wonderful children's craft (and develop their fine motor skills in the process). See the video tutorial with the steps on our website. #christmas #christmasornament #ornament #hoidays #holidayornament #beadedornament #beadornament #beadcraft #kidcraft #kidscraft #santa #christmastree #snowman #snowperson #crafttutorial #craftinstructions #christmascraft

      Beaded Christmas Ornaments

      Bonnie Scorer
      November 23, 2020
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With the provided template and how-to video, sew your own lily pad softie for small world play with your toys or figurines!

Lily Pad Softie

Bonnie Scorer
July 4, 2020
Activities, Spring #3 2020
1 Comment
If you are looking to improve your sewing skills, one of our favourite sites for this skill is Sew a Softie  https://www.sewasoftie.com/.  Trixi teaches classes, has books and every July gathers people from...
Vase and background printable for drawing your own flowers! #kidscrafts #flowercraft #flowercrafts #printable #printables #printablesforkids #kidsprintables #craftsforkids

Flower in a Vase Project

Bonnie Scorer
May 24, 2020
Activities, Spring #3 2020
Create your own unique flowers for this vase and printable background to go with it!    Materials Printable Background & Vases: vase Paint Pencil/...
BUTTERFLY POM POM PUSH: This is a great way to practice one's fine motor skills and introduce colour matching as well! This recycled craft is lovely for spring or to go along with a Butterfly unit for Preschool or Kindergarten. #butteflycraft #recycledcraft #finemotorskills #finemotorskilldevelopment #finemotorskillactivity #resuse #preschool #kindergarten

Butterfly Pom Pom Push

Bonnie Scorer
May 17, 2020
Activities, Spring #3 2020
My little nephew loves activities that have a fine motor component to them so we wanted to make him something to do with that from these boxes that Nan (grandma) gave us.  You know you like recycled crafts...
This printable paper farm transforms a 2L milk or beverage carton into a barn and then provides with you with various printables to create a farm! Also included is a lined barn and cover page for writing your own story, extending your play! * All items come in a coloured version and one you can colour yourself* The templates included are: 1) Standing paper animals 2) Stackable hay bales 3) Paper roads that connect together 4) Paper train tracks to connect together 5) A paper pond 6) 3D paper trees 7) Writing booklet (lined pages & cover) 8) Story planner #papercrafts #papercraft #farm #downonthefarm #farmtheme #milkcartoncraft #recycledcraft #kidscrafts #writingbooklet

Paper Farm

Bonnie Scorer
May 11, 2020
Activities, Spring #3 2020
3 Comments
We recently made a paper fairy garden for some neighbours and the kids enjoyed the process so much that we decided to create a paper farm to go along with recently gifted Connetix Tiles vehicle set...
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Alphabet Booklet

Bonnie Scorer
May 3, 2020
Activities, Spring #3 2020
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Our kids have had a great hands-on Kindergarten teacher who made a giant alphabet with the kids where they would bring in items from home, things that made etc. to glue into pages of a gigantic book with...
Decorate your dad! 3 Father's Day ideas: 1) Design Dad for Father's Day using loose parts 2) Decorate Dad's face for this Father's Day craft using supplies you have at home 3)Make a Father's Day card with dad's face on the front! #fathersday #fathersdaycard #fathersdaycraft #fathersdaycrafts

Decorate your Dad’s Face!

Bonnie Scorer
May 3, 2020
Activities, Spring #3 2020
This idea was our youngest's!  He made his dad's face for the alphabet book at school and thought that other children would enjoy making their  dad's face for Father's Day.   The first activity is a...
We show you 3 ideas for Mother's Day! 1) Design your mom with loose parts. (Free, printable faces to chose from) Create her face with buttons, beads, etc.- whatever you have on hand. 2) Decorate your mom's face with craft supplies. Pop it into a glass-less frame and give it to mom for Mother's Day! 3) Make a Mother's Day card with your mom, grandma, aunty or special mentor's face on the front. (template included). #mothersday #mothersdaycards #mothersdaycraft #mothersdaycrafts #mothersdayactivities #mothersdayactivity

Decorate Your Mom’s Face!

Bonnie Scorer
April 27, 2020
Activities, Spring #2 2020
This idea was our youngest's!  He made his dad's face for the alphabet book at school and thought that other children would enjoy making their mom and/or dad's face for Mother's and Father's Day.   The...
Print out free templates to make a giant rainbow to hang in your window or on your wall with these printables. (We have options for a 1 page, 4 page and 6 page version). There is a coloured version to decorate (we show you one idea with scrunched tissue paper) with craft supplies (you could use buttons, beads, poms poms etc.) or a blank version for you to paint or colour. Along with this, we have a rainbow writing booklet where you can write a rainbow narrative (we include a story planning sheet), describe how a rainbow is made (informational writing) or write a thank you note!

Giant Rainbow Poster & Writing Booklet

Bonnie Scorer
April 19, 2020
Activities, Spring #2 2020
With many children around the world hanging rainbows in their windows as a sign of hope, we wanted to provide this giant printable rainbow template in various sizes for your to either decorate or paint/ colour...
When our youngest was in Pre-K they raised butterflies with his amazing teacher. Whether you are observing butterflies in your classroom or at home in your yard, it is fun to document the changes (life cycle) of the butterfly from an egg, caterpillar/larva, pupa/chrysalis to a beautiful butterfly! This printable booklet allows you to write about the life cycle or to make a narrative about a butterfly! You can then make the butterfly craft puppets to retell the process with a bit of drama!

Butterfly Puppet and Writing Booklet

Bonnie Scorer
April 12, 2020
Activities, Spring #2 2020
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When our youngest was in Pre-K they raised butterflies with his amazing teacher. Whether you are observing butterflies in your classroom or at home in your yard, it is fun to document the changes (life cycle)...
Paper Fairy Garden and Writing Booklet: With our free, printable templates, create a small world paper fairy garden to play with your toys! We provide you the templates to make this paper craft which would lend to hours of play and an imaginative narrative writing opportunity to follow!

Paper Fairy Garden and Writing Booklet

Bonnie Scorer
April 6, 2020
Activities, Spring #2 2020
2 Comments
Our lovely neighbours gave us a small yogurt container as inspiration and we designed a paper fairy garden around it that you might use for your homeschooling now too.  Along with that, we created a writing...
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