In the past the school have always asked the parents to keep the following when needed. Most of it was toilet rolls, tissue boxes, icecream containers, shoe boxes.

this is my favourite post by far! We love doing crafts at home and it really cuts costs to use stuff from around the house!

Every house of full of good things ready to be made into a work of art!

Whenever we do craft we always raid the recycling bin first!

You forgot toilet rolls and paper towel rolls the empty roll makes great people, Bon Bon etc lots of fun

great ideas and tips, some I use others will try, thanks so much for this

These are some great tips for people my favorite is I always love making the play dough and of course playing with it with the kids

I love anything that you can do to keep the kids occupied and using their creativity and imagination. Especially if it doesn’t involve a computer or t.v., and isn’t expensive. Kids likely won’t remember playing a game on a computer or watching a movie, but most will remember having fun with their family doing crafty things.

Thanks for some good ideas that I had forgotten! Love having different crafty ideas for the grandkids!

Good on you for this post. I love repurposing things where I can. What I loved about this also is it took me back to my childhood and I remember making the paper plate clocks and doing loads of things with egg cartons. Remember the paper mâché balloon masks we all used to make as kids using a balloon, newspaper and a bit of homemade clag? I have such fond memories of these simple yet extremely fun activities. I love your play dough recipe as well. Why buy it when you can have fun making your own with the children at home!

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  • • no1ladydj replied
    • 28 Jul 2014 , 10:37 pm

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  Something we used to do at Kindy was “splatter painting”, but no-one seems to do it these days. We used to get big sheets of white butcher’s paper, several old toothbrushes, several pieces of wire mesh (like you have in a screen door), and lots of different coloured water paints. Dip a toothbrush in one of the paints, move it back & forward across the wire mesh, on top of the paper, and you get splatters & sprays of colour. Do it with several different colours on top of each other, and you’ve got a real piece of art.

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    • • scottie replied
      • 29 Jul 2014 , 9:14 am

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    I’ve been checking out the craft section for ideas – maybe you could add splatter painting there to ‘revive’ it

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    • • hopefullyheidi replied
      • 30 Jul 2014 , 7:26 pm

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    Yeah and I think some of these ideas should come back. Kindly should be more about learning to create and socially adjust ready for just than a regimental thing where little kids get assessed etc. splatter painting sounds great. My son is allergic to eggs but I always remember doing those eggs where you blow out the interior and the shell is left and they were always died multi colours etc. when I think about it we did lots of fun things at school.

Thanks for posting these great craft ideas, im always on the look out for new ways to help entertain my 4 year old on his nonkindy days.