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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.
Calculator Caterpillar's range of activity ideas to support math, reasoning and problem solving.
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Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.

 
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Recycling cardboard tubes is a great way to keep a craft cupboard brimming with possibilities. The number of activity ideas involving tubes are enormous! A google image search shows just how wonderful and diverse the opportiunities are - cardboard tube crafts   Positioned alongside mark making tools such as paint dabbers, glue sticks and collage materials, children can create characters, vehicles, binoculas, telescopes and everything else the imagination imagines inbetween!

Here, we used the tube from a roll of tinfoil to make the handle of a school crossing patrol sign! SCP road safety craft activity page

Using cardboard tubes to make road safety signs



cardboard tube craft ideas book and a storage bag to keep all the tubes safe - amazon affiliate links

 Cardboard tube request slip

Craft ideas for tubes ..
Storing tube collections

 


Use as temporary displays in safe, risk assessed areas

Small topic or theme display poles






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