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Autumn craft ideas you've been doing?
I always feel like we end up doing the same crafts year after year - not a problem when children haven't already done them but i'm fast running out of ideas for those that have
Anybody got any new exciting craft ideas they have been doing lately for Autumn that you fancy sharing?
I have baby, 1 year olds, 3 & 4 year olds.
Katickles
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The children have noticed the leaves blowing off the trees so we will go and collect some on Monday and see where that takes us
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We have collected leaves and stuck them in card leaf cut outs, painted pics of leaves and sprinkled with seeds, collecting pine cones next week
I love my friends who live inside my laptop
xx
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We have one or two Autumn bits planned including:
- collecting leaves, laminating them and then making them into mobiles
- leaf rubbings
- collecting beech nuts, conkers and beech nut cases to use as spikes and noses and eyes to make some hedgehogs out of salt dough
- we made some fantastic sheep cakes using black icing for the faces and legs and mini marshmallows for the wool
Hope that helps.
Sam x
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We made picture frames using leaves, filled the page and then photocopied it. Cut a leaf shape hole in the middle and insert a photo of the child, then laminate it. We have also done this using the cut of bit as a flap to cover the photo when talking about hibernating in the leaves. We cut out leaf shapes on card (about 6) and strung them together. Then on each one stick something that we have collected, or a photo
Make a fairy world with acorn cups, little cones, twigs and leaves
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Thanks everyone for the ideas - I ESP love the leave/laminated picture one! That I will defiantly get the children involved with making x
Katickles
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Hi, my number one top tip lately and something I feel is now a part if my childminding business is Pinterest- if you are not already on Pinterest I really recommend you have a look, there are so many ideas for everything!! I just type in the search bar what I'm looking for- eg: autumn crafts and 100's of fabulous ideas come up. I'm addicted. X
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Originally Posted by
beejgee
Hi, my number one top tip lately and something I feel is now a part if my childminding business is Pinterest- if you are not already on Pinterest I really recommend you have a look, there are so many ideas for everything!! I just type in the search bar what I'm looking for- eg: autumn crafts and 100's of fabulous ideas come up. I'm addicted. X
Thanks for that, I will take a look later. As the original poster said I feel that I am repeating things so new ideas would be great!!
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Originally Posted by
beejgee
Hi, my number one top tip lately and something I feel is now a part if my childminding business is Pinterest- if you are not already on Pinterest I really recommend you have a look, there are so many ideas for everything!! I just type in the search bar what I'm looking for- eg: autumn crafts and 100's of fabulous ideas come up. I'm addicted. X
Snap!!
Pinterest has a lot to answer for lol!!
Sarah x
Sarah, Bumble Beez x x
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The younger children enjoy making this tree
Fingerprint Fall Tree Craft
and also I print out a picture of a hedgehog and after colouring it we crush dried leaves in a bag then glue them the the hedgehogs body
Hedgehog Colouring Page
Cherry x
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Originally Posted by
beejgee
Hi, my number one top tip lately and something I feel is now a part if my childminding business is Pinterest- if you are not already on Pinterest I really recommend you have a look, there are so many ideas for everything!! I just type in the search bar what I'm looking for- eg: autumn crafts and 100's of fabulous ideas come up. I'm addicted. X
Pinterest saves my life on a regular basis lol!
It's so good for quick activity ideas, some people have such good imaginations, whereas if it was just me they most exciting activity they'd do would be hand prints xx
Kelly xx
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Not read whole thread so don't know if anyone's said this already but we've just done leaf prints
Paint the leaf in Autumn colours stick to plain white paper then peel off
They're currently hanging up to dry and look great xx
Kelly xx
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We did apple printing yesterday using autumn colours and I made split pea and autumn vegetable soup.....read Pumpkin Soup.....
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We did conker painting today. Went to collect them and then painted with them :-D
When someone tells you nothing is impossible, tell them to go slam a revolving door
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we've been making clay creatures! air drying clay decorated with all the seeds/leaves/acorns etc we found on our walk in the woods. just added googly eyes!
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We stuck google eyes on dry leaves and added a marker line for a mouth, to bring them to life, we tried to stick them onto sticks for puppets, but it didn't work out and they fell off, but reading this post has given me the idea of laminating them first, gosh it love my laminator and don't know why I didn't think of it myself, I love this forum as well
Sandy
xx
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Originally Posted by
SYLVIA
We made picture frames using leaves, filled the page and then photocopied it. Cut a leaf shape hole in the middle and insert a photo of the child, then laminate it. We have also done this using the cut of bit as a flap to cover the photo when talking about hibernating in the leaves. We cut out leaf shapes on card (about 6) and strung them together. Then on each one stick something that we have collected, or a photo
Make a fairy world with acorn cups, little cones, twigs and leaves
Lovely ideas thanks for sharing
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Originally Posted by
beejgee
Hi, my number one top tip lately and something I feel is now a part if my childminding business is Pinterest- if you are not already on Pinterest I really recommend you have a look, there are so many ideas for everything!! I just type in the search bar what I'm looking for- eg: autumn crafts and 100's of fabulous ideas come up. I'm addicted. X
How have I not heard of this site???? Anyone know if any other sites they would recommend??
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Originally Posted by
kellyskidz!
Pinterest saves my life on a regular basis lol!
It's so good for quick activity ideas, some people have such good imaginations, whereas if it was just me they most exciting activity they'd do would be hand prints xx
It's amazing isn't it?! Xx
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Originally Posted by
Chimps Childminding
Thanks for that, I will take a look later. As the original poster said I feel that I am repeating things
so new ideas would be great!!
It's well worth a look! X
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