Another cold Friday, another fun craft activity for the 4yo!
The theme for the Family Fun linky from Denise over at Mum on a Mission for a Better Life this week is pink. I hadn’t managed to do much during the week – it was one of those weeks! – but, we needed to go to the craft store on Friday to get presentation board for the 7yo’s latest homework project. While we were there we found lots of fun spring crafts, and both the 4yo and the wee girl were very taken with a butterfly and owl kit and it was largely pink! Bonus :)
Once the wee girl went down for her nap (so that the 4yo could create undisturbed!) I set everything out for him. Following the pictures by way of instructions he set about making one of the creatures. In his usual precise way he wanted them to look like the pictures! I helped him a little (very little!) with the first one and then left him to it…
We left everything where it was while we went to pick the 7yo up from school. When we got back all three of them got stuck in, creating their own creatures :)
So, for our $8 we got 2 hours of entertainment; involving all three children working together, helping each other, creating and using their imaginations; three very happy kids; and quite a collection of creatures :)
And, in keeping with the pink theme, I couldn’t resist decorating some mini cupcakes for myself :)
That is fantastic Sara – I love all the pictures and the owls and butterfly’s are so cute! Your children are gorgeous! Those cupcakes look yummy too! Well done and thank you for joining in :-) xx
Thank you so much! It was a fun activity, and mainly pink…! Thanks for the inspiration :)
Oh, I love owls. They look like they had a great time creating. The cupcakes look good too x
They had a great time, I love it when all three of them can get involved in an activity x
Aww those creatures are so cute! And the kids certainly seemed to enjoy themselves making them, lovely happy faces! Ooh you meany with those cupcakes, making me hungry! ;) xx #letkidsbekids
The kids had a great time :)
The sight of your table covered in making materials, just makes me want to roll up my sleeves and join in. Good fun and lovely creations. And another school project to do :) #LetKidsBeKids
Thanks! I do like it when the table is covered in fun stuff :)
They look brilliant! Greta that it kept them so entertained, and a bonus to have some cakes, too x
They were fun, and it’s always good to have cupcakes :)
Great ideas, love the owls in particular. I run a kids nature group so may have to borrow this for one of our sessions!
The kit was good, but I might try it with our own bits and pieces next time :)
I love these, they did a great job, and I’ll definitely be trying it with my daughter.
Very easy, we had a kit, but it would have taken no time to pull together the bits to do it ourselves x
Those butterflies look so good, as do the fairy cakes but what I want to know is why is it when we have a craft session my place looks like a tip but when you do craft your place looks so pristine?!!
Ah well, I carefully took the photos from an angle that didn’t show the chaos in the rest of the room…!
Wow, these are so cute and I love all your fab photos. Owls and butterflies are firm favourites here! Looks like a great little kit. #LetKidsBeKids
Thank you, it was a fun activity :)
Great idea and fabulous pictures. I am sure little ones’ had loads of fun.
Loved your mini cakes too. :)
Thanks!
These are so cute. I’m always on the lookout for loo roll crafts. My daughter would love making butterflies (we made angels out of some at Christmas).
The kit was great, but next time we can make it up ourselves :)
They look great and it certainly looks like all of your children had fun! Just shows you don’t have to spend a fortune to do something fun.
Thanks, the kids really did enjoy it – I loved seeing them all working together x
Lovely crafting ideas (we always have an abundance of toilet rolls as I’m sure do you!) and I loved seeing them all working together x
I loved that too, the boys helped the wee girl and they all took turns, it was great x
This looks like a lot of fun, and great for all 3 ages too.
It really was, the boys helped their sister which was lovely x
So cute. What a lovely activity to do together. I’m sure I’ve got enough bits and pieces knocking around to be able to make something similar. #minicreations
It was great fun, and I loved that all three of them were able to enjoy it x
Those butterfly are the cutest things next to a real butterfly! Will try to do it cuz its so easy to do too!
#creativechallenge
They were great fun to make, and very easy x
I wish I could get hold of this kit, my two would LOVE it, they look brilliant. x
I think it would be fairly simple to make it up yourself. But the kit was a real time saver :)
We do the same, once Summer has gone down for her afternoon nap, Jacob and I do arts and crafts. Those butterflies and owls look amazing.
Thanks, such good fun to do :)
How cute are those butterflies? Another activity to bookmark- we’re hoping to hatch our own butterflies this year
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Oh, so are we! My oldest was given a ‘kit’ last year that we didn’t have time to do over the summer, so we’re just waiting for the weather to warm up a bit :)
Grace says – I LOVE these sooo much. Guess what I’m gonna be doing this weekend!!!!
Thanks for linking to #minicreations
Have fun :)