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Friday, March 14, 2025

Torn Paper Easter Egg Craft

Looking for a fun and easy Easter egg craft for kids? This torn paper Easter egg activity is perfect for little hands and packed with learning opportunities! Tearing paper helps strengthen fine motor skills, encourages creativity, and provides a wonderful sensory experience. Plus, it’s a mess-free, budget-friendly way to celebrate Easter.

Whether at home or in the classroom, this craft will keep children engaged while letting them explore different colours, textures, and patterns as they create their own unique egg. Use our free printable egg template to make this craft even easier.

Torn paper Easter egg craft with free printable template.
Thursday, March 6, 2025

St Patrick's Day Sensory Play Ideas

St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect time to add a little magic to sensory play. These St. Patrick's themed sensory ideas bring the holiday to life with vibrant greens, shimmering gold, lucky shamrocks, sparkling coins, and colourful rainbows. 

Engaging in hands-on activities like slime, sensory bins, and sensory bottles not only sparks creativity but also supports fine motor skills, focus, and self-regulation. Whether your child loves squishing, scooping, or splashing, these sensory activities provide a fun and engaging way to celebrate Irish culture while exploring different textures, colours and items.

St Patrick's Day sensory play ideas.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

E is for Easter Eggs: Letter E Craft

This super easy, low prep E is for Easter eggs letter craft is a creative way to incorporate early literacy into Easter craft activities and build fine motor skills. I've also included a free printable letter E template you can use to make this craft even easier for young children. This letter E craft is also a great activity to incorporate into your letter of the week learning for letter E either at home or in the classroom.

e is for easter egg craft.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Letter F Crafts & Activities for Preschoolers

Whether you're an educator planning Letter F Week in your classroom, or a parent looking for creative ways to teacher letters to your child at home, this blog post is your guide to creating a fun letter of the week plan for the letter F through hands-on experiences and imaginative crafts.

I've put together a list of letter F crafts for preschoolers and school children that are for items that start with the letter F and are shaped like the letter F, so they reinforce both the physical formation and the sound of the letter. I've also included lots more letter F activities that include visual, tactile, auditory and movement based ideas. These are great activities to do in kindergarten, at home, in class at school, or during homeschooling with children aged 3-6yrs old.

letter f crafts for kids.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Love Bug Valentines Crafts for Kids

These adorable DIY love bug crafts are easy for kids to make using recycled materials, basic craft supplies and natural elements. They resemble much cuter versions of  real bugs like caterpillars, spiders, dragonflies and butterflies. The finished love bug crafts can also be used as thoughtful, handmade Valentine’s gifts for classmates or friends to give out on Valentine's Day.

love bug crafts for kids.

Thursday, January 2, 2025

G is for Galaxy: Letter G Craft

Looking for a fun and creative way to teach kids about the letter G? Transforming the letter G into a stunning galaxy is the perfect way to combine different painting techniques, learning, and imagination. Whether you're a teacher, parent, or caregiver, this activity is an engaging way to make learning the letter G fun.

I've also included a free printable letter G template you can use to make this craft even easier for young children. This is a great activity to incorporate into your letter of the week learning for the letter G either at home or in the classroom.

letter g galaxy craft.
Monday, December 16, 2024

Recycled Christmas Ornaments & Decorations Kids Can Make

Did you know lots of items found in your recycling bin can be used to make adorable Christmas ornaments and decorations? Making homemade recycled Christmas ornaments and decorations is a fantastic way for kids to express their creativity while also learning about sustainability. Reusing recyclables from around the house to create upcycled art and crafts is a great way to teach children how something that's been used can still be transformed into something beautiful, rather than being discarded.

These handmade decorations help the environment, are a budget friendly gift option and can also become a personal, heart warming tradition to include in your holiday celebrations. In this post, we’ll share fun and easy ideas for creating eco-friendly Christmas decorations kids can help make. Lots of these would also be great to make as affordable class take home gifts.

recycled Christmas ornaments and decorations kids can make.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Elf Stuck in Bottle Magic Trick

Did you know elves can magically squeeze themselves into empty plastic drink bottles? While it seems like an impossible, logic defying task, with a little elf magic it's easy to achieve.

With a little planning and some clever tricks, you can create a miraculous hiding spot that will leave the kids wondering how your elf managed to fit inside. In this post, we’ll guide you through the steps to make an elf fit inside an empty 600ml bottle.

holding a plastic coke bottle with an elf trapped inside.

Monday, December 2, 2024

How to restore the Elf's Magic: What to do if your elf is touched.

Uh oh! The elf has been touched, what do you do now?

The elf being accidentally touched can be a stressful moment for both children and parents, but don’t worry there's plenty of ways to restore your elf back to its magical self in no time. Use one or more of these festive ways to restore your elf's magic, helping them recover to keep the Christmas spirit alive for December.

elf in hospital.
Monday, November 11, 2024

Elf on the Shelf Magic Tricks

Elves aren't just fantastical creatures who come to spread Christmas cheer each year, they also know how to do magic! Unlike Harry Potter and his Wizard friends, elves don't rely on magic wands and spells for their magic. They have many magical tools including items found around your house and some even have their very own magic shrinking machine.

Whether they're levitating, transforming or shrinking items, your kids are sure to be wowed by their magical elf powers. These elf magic tricks may even turn the most skeptical children into true believers.

elf magic floating noodles trick.