Activity for Toddler Group

[SoupDragon]

I'm all out of inspiration. Rules are no painting or other really messy stuff. Usually do glueing and sticking typ activities.

Recently we've done:
Decorated cups and planted sunflowers
Made caterpillars, butterflies, picture frames, vases of paper flowers, valentine's cards, decorated salt dough flowers....

Help! The pressure is on because "our" side of the noticeboard loosk so much better than Sunday School's My house is Craft Central so I usually have most ingredients. I'll pop back later for ready to be inundated with bright ideas...

TIA!

Rich tea biscuit icing?
The iniquitous pasta threading (with paint if you're brave)
Coloured rice pictures
Hat making - use loops of card with stickable bits to add.

Mask making, with themes, if you feel like it

making mobiles - using coat hangers and cut out shapes/leaves/feathers/any junk you find lying around

How about decorating plastic drinking cups and planting seeds...pumpkins, chillies,butternut squash. The children could take photographs of the pots and the different developmental stages of the plants growth.

Potato stamping is good fun and you could use PVA glue and glitter to overcome not using paint.

this is a good site for crafting topics

We recently decorated the side of some small plant pots (there were drawings of a seed, then a seedling and then the full plant which the kids coloured in and then stuck onto the pot) and then planted some sunflower seeds. The seedlings came up within a couple of days.

The messy bit is that you will need to take a bag of compost - but it sweeps up easy enough.

Sorry - just noticed that jayzmummy suggested something similar

A family tree? Collect some twigs...put the twigs in a plastic beaker..secure with plasticine...get the children to drawn pictures of their families and add them to the tree.

Thanks for these

We did decorated pots/sunflowers a couple of weeks ago . Can't do glitter either as the hall is carpetted. Mind you, I have to leave before clear up time...

Oooh - maybe collect some sticks and they can stick tissue paper blossom onto them, stick them into an actimel pot et voila! Blossom trees.

It's a small group - 2 4yos and about 4 under 2s so it's difficult to find something they can all do.

What about various ink stamps - you can get all shapes and types (little animals, forms of transport etc). Particularly popular with younger toddlers who can do quite decent pictures with them

Don't know if you're still interested we like to do masks with paper plates, collages with scrunched up bits of tissue paper, animal noses with plastic beakers, paper mache, sticky back plastic with a variety of different stickables, such as feathers, little sticks etc.

We've done jam jar lanterns recently - needs supervision as it uses old glass jam jars. Basically cover the jamjars with torn up coloured tissue paper, tie string FIRMLY around the top and pop a tealight in. They look magical lit up on a dark windowsill and the activity was very popular at the toddler group I'm involved with.