Salt dough crafts are so easy to make and I totally love our latest keepsake, a handprint bowl. Follow our simple instructions and salt dough recipe to make your own salt dough bowl in the shape of your child's hand. This is such a cute keepsake craft and the bowl is a perfect size for rings, cufflinks or keys. These dishes would make perfect homemade gifts for Mothers day, Fathers day or for Christmas. 

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If you are looking for easy play activity ideas for your baby, toddler or preschooler it doesn't get much simpler than playing with dried pasta and spaghetti.  Pasta play keeps young children busy as well as working on their fine motor skills.  Dried pasta activities make very little mess and they can be tidied away again quickly. This easy play idea is one of our go to activities if we have a spare 5 minutes to fill as it is so easy to prepare and tidy away. 

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Painting on foil is a fun and easy process art idea for kids that is sure to be popular! Foil painting using cotton buds (Q tips) as paintbrushes is a perfect art technique for toddlers and preschoolers who are working on fine motor skills and colour mixing.

Inspired by Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' painting we used different shades of blue and explored swirling the paint around the foil which gives the artwork a real winter feel.

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Here is a superhero puppet craft that little boys (and girls!) will LOVE!!! Use our FREE PRINTABLE superhero templates to make your own mini superheroes.  We have Batman, Superman, Ironman, Flash and Captain America amongst others.  These easy DIY superhero puppets are great for imaginative play and they accompany the lego superhero story books perfectly. 

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The kids have had hours of fun painting and playing in their own paint your own cardboard playhouse. I provided the paints and the cardboard playhouse and let them splat and drip paint all over it. They loved being free to decorate their cardboard house in their own creative way. They got totally covered in paint and had fun popping up out of the windows. This outdoor art idea for kids was so messy, but so much fun!

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Using Claude Monet's Water Lilies paintings as inspiration create your own water lilies using a paper plate and cupcake liners. This simple piece of Monet inspired art for kids is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers, but older kids would enjoy it too.

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