On New Years Eve begin a new family tradition and make a New Years memory jar or time capsule together.  It is such a lovely way of focusing on your families dreams and wishes for the year ahead. You simply begin by thinking about a few wishes for the year ahead and then as the year progresses add any special thoughts, memories, photos or even tiny souvenirs to the jar before opening it the following New Years Eve. 

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These fingerprint heart keyrings are a perfect way of capturing your child's tiny fingerprints whether it be your babies, toddlers or preschoolers.  They make lovely homemade gifts or kid make keepsakes whether its to keep for yourself or to give to a loved one for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, a birthday or Christmas. 

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Harry is at Pre School and learning how to count and recognise numbers.  This activity is a simple hands on way of learning to count and recognise numbers to 5 using playdough.

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Do you have snow?  Children love playing in the snow, but if it is too cold for your toddler or preschooler to stay outside for long then bring the snow indoors! It is so easy to set up a real snow sensory bin and the kids love it.

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Christmas is such an exciting time of the year! Add to the Christmas eve excitement by making a Christmas eve box for the family to share. But what do you put in a Christmas eve box? We have a list of everything need for the perfect Christmas eve box. We have included everything needed for Santa's arrival, as well as for a cosy Christmas eve with the family. You could either make your Christmas eve box with the kids or make it as a surprise for them. 

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Playdough activities are always a big hit in this house and making our playdough snowmen was no exception.  We used sparkly white playdough with some printable accessories and buttons to make a snowman family. 

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Have fun playing in a dinosaur swamp! Kids will love this messy dinosaur small world. It was so much fun to set up and play with. The island is made from gloopy gloop (or slime, goop, oobleck or whatever you like to call it) which is fantastic for sensory play for toddlers and preschoolers. 

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Using a simple salt dough recipe make a handprint keepsake to last forever. Salt dough crafts are easy to make using only 3 ingredients and children can be involved in the making and painting process. 

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Make an adorable Footprint Christmas Tree card for someone special this Christmas. 

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Brrrrrr......it's freezing! The cold weather has made us want to stay inside in the warm, but it has also inspired us to make these no mess, paper plate snowflakes. These paper snowflakes were quick and easy to make and even baby Daisy who is 4 months old was able to get involved.

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These salt dough reindeer footprint ornaments would look adorable hanging on your Christmas tree. Using our easy salt dough recipe you can capture the children's tiny little footprints to create a keepsake to treasure forever! Using a babies footprint will look extra cute for this craft, but toddler or preschoolers would love making their very own salt dough reindeer craft too. 

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Santa salt dough handprint ornaments are the perfect Christmas craft for kids! Making Christmas salt dough ornaments couldn't be easier using our easy salt dough recipe and these salt dough Santa handprint ornaments make adorable Christmas keepsakes to bring out year after year.  

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Follow our easy salt dough recipe to make salt dough crafts to treasure! We love salt dough crafts and making salt dough is so easy! Follow our simple step by step how to make salt dough instructions for the simple salt dough recipe we use to make all our adorable salt dough crafts and keepsakes. I treasure all our salt dough creations! (printable salt dough recipe included!)

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Winter is here and it's getting colder and colder by the day, which means its a perfect time to make these adorable little footprint robins.   We always love anything that involves tiny handprints or footprints and these little bird footprints make really cute keepsakes.  Toddlers and preschoolers will love this easy to make bird craft idea. 

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Help the kids make reindeer fingerprint gift tags this Christmas. This cute fingerprint reindeer craft looks adorable and only takes a couple of minutes to make.

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Do you love elf on the shelf? Here is a collecton of 24 fun elf on the shelf ideas to see you through advent right up until Christmas Eve. We cant wait for our elf's arrival this Christmas.

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Write a letter to Santa this Christmas using our free printable Santa letter. If your children have been good boys and girls this year use this FREE PRINTABLE to let Santa know whats on their Christmas wish list. 

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Making gloopy gloop (or slime, goop, oobleck or whatever you like to call it) is soooo much fun! Gloop is really easy to make using just 2 ingredients, cornflour and water. It is an extra messy sensory activity for kids and it is fascinating to see how the mixture changes from a solid to a liquid as it is played with. 

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Celebrate the run up to Christmas this year with our 'four calling birds' salt dough ornament craft. Use our coloured salt dough recipe along with sequins and feathers to make these cute Christmas ornaments.  Toddlers and preschoolers will love this invitation to create and the colourful bird ornaments look so cute hanging on the christmas tree.  

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We love using salt dough for our craft projects, but it's even better when it is coloured salt dough as it means you don't need to paint your salt dough crafts. Here is a simple recipe that we use to make coloured salt dough.

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Homemade bird feeders are really easy to make using our step by step homemade bird food instruction. These easy diy bird feeders for kids are made using just 3 ingredients and you can make them in any shape you like using cookie cutters! Hang your bird feeders up in the garden with some pretty ribbon or use this bird feeders recipe to make easy homemade gifts that kids can make!

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Any activity involving playdough is always a hit in this house and its great for practicing fine motor skills.  Harry loved using this playdough to make and decorate little Christmas Trees.

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