Scavenger Hunt

Everyone loves looking for treasure so why not write some clue and place them around your backyard for your children to try an solve an find the next one. 

I believe 10 is a pretty good number although it is really up to you how many you have. 

It may be best to number your clues so the children know if they have the right clue. 

You can have prizes at the end whether its just a favourite toy, treat or maybe even something new. 

Fire Truck Collage

Wanna build a fire truck?!

Not quite the same as a snowman, but we can do them too (:

Any who I don't really have a way of explaining how to do the collage but here's a pic hopefully you can work it out. 

It's basically sticking the pieces on each other, I have also included the templates for your fire truck. 

Instead of cutting the middle of the ladder out I just coloured them in, was easier to glue on that way. 

Enjoy. 

Hungry Caterpillar Painting

What you need; A3 paper Your hands Paint Brush Red, Green, Purple and Brown paint
What to do; Paint the front of your four fingers purple and the palm of your hand green. Then print on your paper 4 times, next to one another. Next paint the back of your index and little finger brown and the back of your hand red. Turn your paper upside down and print above one of the other hands.

Chocolate Crackles

Want to make quick and easy chocolate crackles?! Well then here is a recipe for you, with just 3 that's right 3 ingredients. 

What you need; 

200g of chocolate 

1/4 cup of coconut 

3 cups of rice bubbles 

What to do; 

Melt the chocolate

Add coconut to chocolate and mix

Add the rice bubbles and mix through well

Fill patty pans with the mixture, sprinkle with coconut and refrigerate to set (10 mins)

Notes 

This makes 24

I used a block of cadburys chocolate which is 220g, so I added half a cup extra rice bubbles an it made 5 (I think) more. 

I tipped the chocolate on the rice bubbles, although it may be easier to tip the rice bubbles into the chocolate like the recipe says. The bowl I melted the chocolate in wasn't big enough so that's why I did it the opposite way. Would be totally up to you though. 

Enjoy, they taste so good. 

Squirt Bottle Painting.

What you need;

Squirt bottles

Food colouring

Water

Paper, the bigger the better

Outside space, somewhere to hang the paper 

What to do;

Full the squirty bottles with water and add colouring. Straight (not mixed) colours work best. 

Hang a piece of paper up somewhere outside is best as the food colouring may stain surfaces. 

Squirt the paper, watch the different colours mix together and drip their way down the paper making different patterns/colours on the way to the bottom. 

Notes. 

Too much spray in one spot will cause paper to tear. 

Food colouring may stain, hands, clothes and surfaces. 

Squirt Gun Volcanoes

What you need; 

Tray 

Baking soda 

White vinegar

Water pistol/squirty bottle

Food colouring (optional)

What to do;

Put food colouring in the bottom of a tray and cover with baking soda. 

Fill water pistols or it squirty bottles with vinegar. 

Squirt the baking soda and watch the reaction. 

 

When I did this I didn't tell the children that I put good colouring under it so it was a surprise to them when the colour came through. 

Birthday Calendar

Birthday calendars are fun to make an do, the kids will love seeing their birthday on the wall or in a book. 

It's honestly not just something for a school or child care. 

You can make a birthday calendar for your home. 

Put all the families birthdays on it, kids friends, pets, maybe even special toys. 

And you can have any design you want. 

Pinterest had loads of different ideas for birthdays calendars. 

Check out the birthday calendar I made for work. 

Balloon Rockets

What you need; 

Balloon

Balloon pump (optional)

String

Sticky or masking tape

Straw 

What to do; 

Put string up, I put it right across the room, but then it depends how big your room is. But how far you want the string is your choice. 

Be sure to put the straw on the string before putting it up. 

Blow or use a balloon pump to pump the balloon up, how big you want the balloon depends on how long the string is. 

And then stick the balloon to the straw with the open end facing the opposite direction you want the balloon to go, as that's the rocket that make the balloon go. 

And then you let it go and watch it fly across the room  

String Easter Eggs

What you need;

String

Craft glue

Water balloons

What to do;

I used a balloon pump to pump the balloons up, you don't need much air, just enough to kind of have that egg shape. 

I put craft glue in a bowl and dipped the string into it, and then wrapped it around the balloon, it is better when the string has lots of glue on it so the string dries hard everywhere and not just some places. 

I then left them to dry over night. 

I checked to make sure all the string was stuck and not moving before popping the balloon. 

I found this idea in Pinterest and what I saw of it, they put Easter eggs in the balloon first. 

New Blog? Same Blog? Different Style?

I just had the biggest brainwave!

I work with children and when you do that you have to do activities with them or else they'll get bored. So I've decided I'm going to start posting activity ideas here!

So yes my blog is changing yet again.