Celebrate summer and help your child develop their fine motor skills with this Paper Plate Sun Craft from Buggy and Buddy. The instructions ask for yellow materials, but there’s no reason you can’t make a colourful sun, or use some yellow paint instead.
You will need:
Paper plate
Hole punch
Pipe cleaners
Straws (or tube-shaped pasta, like penne)
Scissors
Yellow paint and/or decorations, such as tissue paper, glitter, sequins, etc.
Glue, if you’re using decorations
Here is another colouring page from Pippins for your little ones to enjoy. Print the page and let your kids enjoy colouring all the silly apple faces on our Pippins Apple Tree colouring page. We’d love to see their masterpieces on Facebook when they’re finished!
These Tissue Paper Rainbow Fish are a lovely simple craft from Crafts on Sea.
You will need:
Card stock or cardboard, cut into a fish shape
Different colours of tissue paper
Child-safe scissors (or just get your child to tear the bits of tissue paper)
Water and a paint brush
Support your child’s learning in maths, language and more with the classic story ‘Three Billy Goats Gruff’ from TTS’s Home Learning Collection. Read the story out loud to your child, then try out the activities on the following page.
Here’s another great outdoor activity from Cath, our Forest School leader…
Crush some chalk on the patio with a stone or hammer (may need supervision). Add water and mix to form paint. Use different colours and try mixing them together. Experiment with other materials e.g. soil, charcoal.
Use a stick or paintbrush to create some artwork. It doesn’t have to be on paper; paint the patio, the shed door, stones, an old cardboard box, anything that needs brightening up.
Chalk paint washes off easily, so you won’t have a purple patio forever. But it does look lovely!
Help your child develop the fine motor skills and pen control that they will need for writing with this mark making activity from TTS’s Home Learning Collection.
Help us celebrate our updated logo with this Pippins Preschool colouring page! Print the page and let your little ones colour in our new rainbow logo. Then show your support for Pippins and our Covid-responders by taping it up in your window.
This puppet making activity from Small Talk by the National Literacy Trust combines reading, playing, and a craft project.
You will need:
A book your child likes
Paper and crayons
Child-safe scissors
Sellotape
Lollipop sticks, straws or an old spoon
Now time to make your puppets:
Step 1: Ask your child to choose a character or object they like from the book.
Step 2: Get them to draw a picture of it, or find a picture online that you can print and colour. Then help your child cut it out and stick it to the lollipop stick (or whatever you’re using as the stick for your puppet).
Step 3: Read the book aloud and encourage your child to use the puppet when the character or object appears.
Get your kids learning maths, science, art and more with this collection of ideas from TTS’s Home Learning Collection, which are all based on the 5 Little Speckled Frogs nursery rhyme.
Get your kids using their imaginations and creativity with this collection of ideas from TTS’s Home Learning Collection, which are all based on the Wheels on the Bus nursery rhyme.
