Weather craft

Today we have made some crafts to do with the weather, although maybe we only need the rainy one at the moment! We have made clouds, a sunshine and some rain so we can talk about the weather, learn the words and we will stick them up in the window to help him notice what the weather is doing each day.

For the cloud I drew a cloud shape on the back of a cereal packet, then let the little one squeeze some glue all over it and then apply cotton wool to it. You can pull out and jujj up the cotton wool to make it really cloudy. This is quick, easy and so fluffy I can't stop touching it!

Sunshine is the back of a paper plate painted with his poster paints.

Rain is whole milk bottle tops as they are blue, sellotaped to string which is then sellotaped to a lolly stick so we can blue tac it to the window and move it about.

Excuse the toy car in the picture, he wanted them low down for him to admire and that just happened to be there. That's real life for you!

Pirate boat

We bought a plastic set of drawers for organising craft materials for the little one (yay, organising!), and the box was rather large and quite frankly crying out to be made into a pirate boat. I had also recently bought a wipe clean tablecloth (also, yay!) so had a large tube of cardboard to make the sail out of with the bubble wrap from the drawers. (Note, bubble wrap makes a handy sail AND activity as you can sit for hours in your boat popping it.) Line the bottom of the boat with pillow and blankets etc to make your trip comfortable.

Make sure you have your telescopes and treasure chest and pirate eye patch.

Make a steering wheel out of a paper plate and plastic cutlery and sellotape.

Ahoy there, matey!

Plastic bead suncatchers

These are so easy and fun to make! Also I got to use up some old beads I had had hanging around *forever*!

They can be made in cake tins, cups, ceramic bowls anything really. They lift out beautifully once dry. I did one in a christmas pudding bowl and one in an enamel butterfly cookie cutter. In the butterfly one I used glittery beads and I love the effect. The other one, I will admit is a bit of an experiment. Not all beads melt, it would appear. But it was my little one's choice of beads and some have gone lovely and bubbly. Make sure you choose the cheap plasticy ones and it looks nice to have clear ones in there to let the light shine through.

Either drill a hole and tie some ribbon or clear jewellery elastic to hang or place a circle of sellotape to stick them to the window.

More beads on order for more suncatcher fun!