Here are 10 great ideas of easy crafts and activities that you can do at home with the kids this Springtime.
You will need:
Watch the ‘How to’ video here
We have just received our delivery of Caterpillars from Insectlore.
We sent off for some last year and loved watching them grow, before they emerged as Butterflies and we released them in to our garden. The Kids obviously wanted to do it again this year, so we ordered ours early! Keep an eye on my instagram stories. We all got quite attached to our caterpillars last year and emotional seeing them fly away!
Watch a video – How a Caterpillar becomes a butterfly
Painting a butterfly is one of the easiest things you can do with the kids. All you need is paper and paint, you don’t even need paint brushes if you don’t want to!
Watch a ‘how to’ video here
As the sun starts shining, there’s something very festival-y about face painting! Here are some easy tutorials if you fancy getting the facepaints out.
Salt dough is very easy to make, but it needs time to dry out before you paint it.
To make Salt Dough, you need:
Method:
These Salt Dough Ladybirds are great for helping with counting too!
Here is a really easy playdough recipe, made from a few ingredients you can find in your cupboards
Method:
See how to make funny insects from playdough here
Pick a bug (check out our bug fact sheets for ideas) and paint them!
Hide them for others to find in your local area or simply display them in your garden.
Dress up as a
As part of their Healthy at Home campaign, DCLT have shared this brilliant idea for creating a friendly caterpillar from apples and babybels (it’s gluten free too)
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I picked up a packet of ‘butterfly’ seeds to plant in our garden. My mini Mumbler has always enjoyed gardening and he loves nothing more than digging and planting seeds. Apparently butterflies prefer certain types of flowers, so we are hoping our butterfly mix will encourage them to our garden.
Spring is a great time to get outside and if you’re not fussy about what grows where, digging and sowing seeds can keep little one’s occupied for ages! I never quite know what’s going to pop up where in the garden.
Here are 7 tips for gardening with kids from Mr Bloom.
One of our favourites! So simple too:
Find some open space and download a free tracking app such as Strava and challenge your children to make some masterpeices!
These are great. Pipe cleaners are really versatile and very simple.
You will need:
Pond Dipping can be so much fun. You can pond dip in your garden pond or visit a local nature reserve (check that you’re allowed to pond dip before you go).
The rspb have some great tips on what you will need:
Insects and other minibeasts need safe spaces to shelter, hide from predators and raise their young. You can help them by building a bug hotel in your garden or outside area.
It can be as fancy (or not) as you like!
