Activities

Our favourite place to find materials to create with is nature, but this is certainly followed by the recycling bin!  Use newspaper to make this simple festive Fall...

Our neighbour has a gorgeous amount of sunflowers, inspiring this project!  (That and the huge pile of rocks from all the summer collecting!)  Make these with your children or students and then set them up...

A lovely way to combine both the beauty of florals and weaving!  Materials Sturdy/ thicker type paper plates Pencil/eraser Ruler Paint Sponge/brush Scissors Yarn Tape Bead...

Make this keepsake of your family to celebrate Fall and bring out year to year!  This one is a gift for Grandma and Grandpa!  Materials Wooden peg dolls (you can find these online or in craft...

Design a Fall tree with loose parts!  This is a great way to manipulate various shaped objects within a space to create an image! Materials Tray (we used an expanding utensil...

When I taught Grade 3 we did a unit on Folktales, Fables & Fairytales, exploring narratives from around the world and those that authors had fractured, telling from the perspective of another character...

Has anyone ever seen an image of a real fairy?  Well now you can create one!   We used a solar kit to make a fairy, but you could do a mermaid, a dragon, a city, vehicles, animals or whatever lies in your...

Popsicles are synonymous with summer.  We show you a simple painting technique to create gift tags for summer birthday parties, host/hostess gifts, party invites etc.  Materials Popsicle printable...

Sew a Softie (http://www.sewasoftie.com/) is an initiative developed by Australian Trixi Symonds (https://www.colouredbuttons.com/)  that encourages children and youth to discover the joy of hand sewing. ...

I loved embroidery as a girl and it is seeing a comeback with my son learning at school this year.  We decided to take the non-fiction book How to Survive as a Firefly (informative and very funny) for...