Every teacher who loves crafts as much as I do needs most of these items. I bought a dresser and painted it in 5 colours, then used plastic containers and labels to store everything. · A4 white paper· Beads· Beads and string· Blu tack· Buttons – different colours and sizes· Chalk· Chenille stems – pipe…
Wet Chalk Drawings
Materials needed: Coloured chalk, black construction paper, water, a plastic cup. The kids in my group enjoy arts and crafts a lot. That’s why we need to find new ways of using the art supplies that we have. We drew with wet chalk on black construction paper and this is the result! Lively colours and…
Make Your Own Paint
I was a bit bored during the weekend: it was freezing cold outside, so I decided to stay indoors and try to use some ingredients that I had to make something else. I mixed some hand cream with food colouring to make some paint. The texture is quite nice…it’s soft and it doesn’t ruin the…
Painting With Straws and Bubbles
This is a very easy art project you can do with kids of all ages, even 3 y.o. Materials: plastic cup (as many as the colours you want to use), water, dishwashing liquid, food colouring, straw, paper. Instructions: pour water and dishwashing liquid in the plastic cup (the ratio can be 2:1) and the add…
Volcano Eruption
Materials: baking soda, vinegar, glass bottle (transparent bottle), paint or food colouring (red/orange), plastic dinosaurs and trees (just to decorate), sensory table or a large tray (to keep the liquid from spilling) Age: kindergarten, primary school Instructions: Place the large tray so that all the kids can see. Then, place the dinosaurs and the trees…
Lava Lamp
Materials: jar or bottle, effervescent tablets, oil, water, food colouring. Instructions: Find a large jar or bottle. Pour water (at least 300 ml) and oil (also around 300-400 ml or more). Put some drops of food colouring (any colour will do). We chose green because the children voted for it 🙂 After the food colouring…