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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Activities for math - Calculator caterpillar's activity ideas to support children's numeracy, reasoning and problem solving play.
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Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.

 Craft activity ideas for preschool children's play 

There isn't much that crafting doesn't involve.

Craft activity ideas for preschool children's creative enjoyment
The selection of tools, type of materials, skills of technique and the reasoning that underpins construction means the choices for creative expression are as endless as the possbilities are for chilldren to engage their senses and their thinking.

Here you'll find suggestions that tend to follow an interest be it to discover how paint loaded marbles move around the inner chamber of a container or find out what markings are made when wax rubbings are taken against a textured surface.

Join us curling ribbon, sprinkling glitter, cutting paper straws and getting messy with glue!

Craft resources
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ready mix and dry paint - PVA  glue and stick glue 

 
Newest craft activity 
Penguin painting with frozen cubes!

Mermaid paint dabbing activity

Slip sliding penguins and frozen cubes of paint!
Mermaid paint dabbing activity

Marble painting using plain and outline drawn papers
Dinosaur puppet - springy neck collage!

Marble painting using plain or outline drawn paper
Dinosaur puppet craft activity - collage outline templates



 

 
 
Craft ideas for creative play

  Firework splats - indoor & outdoor paint
  Collage bottles for some rhyming fun!

  Dolphin ocean and paint blending
  Elephants sticky tape showers 
Firework splat art - paint activity
10 collaged bottles to decorate a wall ..
Paint blending preschool activity and ocean dolphin printables
Elephant showers a sticky tape adhesive preschool nursery craft activity
Beehive paint and bubblewrap craft activity
Pirate dog's keys  themed paint activity
Muddy Pig paint activity colour blending  activity
Carrot leaf collage mixed media craft

Busy beehive craft activity for preschool painting ideas
Pirate Dog's keys - impression taking painting activity and pirate game idea
Muddy pig paint stamper activity
Carrot collaging craft activity that looks at the colour orange, green and root vegetables

Dormouse printables for role play crafting
Sun circles of yellow - paint and collage

Noisy shaker bottles
Slither snake preschool role play paint activity

Dormouse craft activity
Yellow sun collage and paint craft activity
Noise shaker bottles - loose media music instrument craft activity
Slithery snake role play paint activity



Festive craft activities to enjoy winter's yule
more ideas can be found in silkysteps craft ebook and on the advent countdown page



Fir cone construction
Jingle bell craft collage  

   
   
Fir pinecone scale collage craft activity
Jingle bell collaged card - craft activity


Birthday board ideas

  Bear birthday board project
  Cupcake robot birthday board activity



   Duck races and junk modelling
Build your setting's own birthday celebration board

Recycled modelling activity and duck races!


 


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