Craft type activities for toddlers?

[MudAndGlitter]

Or how the bloody hell do I keep two small children occupied all week? We have to wait in for the last of the presents so indoors ideas would be great please!

Bump- and lurk- as stuck at home with pgp and a toddler. Was thinking plasticine , paper chains and maybe some easy cooking.

Ds is just 2, last week he made snowmen out of cotton wool. He painted paper plates blue and coveted them in glitter then I cut them into snowflakes.

Tomorrow we are making and decorating a gingerbread house and later in the week he will help make mince pies

Cut out snowflakes and let them loose with glue and sequinny things. If you're near a Hobby Craft shop, they do packs of trees, baubles etc that they can glue and stick on. Sour dough stuff to put on the tree? Cookies to make and eat? Bath crayons, or painting in the bath? Stcik paper onto the sides of the bath, let them in if it's warm enough with nothing on and let them paint! Get the pictures out and shower them down.

Indoor dens? Chairs with sheets over and have lunch in there. DVD and duvets. Huge piece of paper on wall with a Xmas tree template on it, cut out circles and make paper "baubles", paint pasta and thread it to make decorations.

we have just cut the 'cups' off lots of egg boxes. My 3 year old covered them in tinfoil and stuck them onto a length of string with sticky tape. Voila, garland of bells!

You need this blog The Imagination Tree

I second salt dough. Just made it with DS who's 3 and DD (nearly 2yo). Got some cheap glitter paint etc from tesco and have made handprints and stars etc. Great fun!

Paper plate angels - you do the cutting out, they decorate with either felt tips or glue & sequins etc depending on how brave you feel. There's instructions here for the angels but I do a simpler shape & don't use them as card holders.

Also, make christmas cookies together (any sort of hard crunchy cookie recipe cut out with festive cutters) then make up lots of different colours of icing & let them decorate (also lots of silver balls etc). Very sticky and does involve a lot of sugar consumption but used to keep dd & friends quiet for ages

How would I make a gingerbread house? It sounds tasty!
Thank you for the suggestions. All I could think of was baking shortbread and mince pies and a bit of colouring!

Crowns cut from cereal boxes
Yogurt pots threaded with string to talk into (sorry, can't think what you'd call them)
Rockets made from toilet roll or kitchen roll tubes.

we've been making snowmen and Father Christmases today - kitchen roll tubes cut in half (loo roll tubes get thrown away in this house, DD's a bit over-enthusiastic at doing things for herself!), wrapped in economy pleat cotton wool or red crepe paper (or anything red really) and any bits you like stuck on. Left-over bits of wrapping ribbon come in handy for scarves...

I keep all the spare scraps of wrapping paper and we cut out the pictures to make collages or snow scenes or whatever.

"Stained glass" decorations with card and cellophane or tissue paper.

Biscuit baking and decorating is a pretty popular activity here too - though not as much as biscuit-eating.

Also sympathise, we're doing a lot of waiting in too, plus I'm 30w pg and got a cold I can't shift so not really feeling very energetic!

We took a massive box and cut it in two then they drew a christmas tree on it and decorated it with crayons and glitter and cut outs from magazines then I cut them out and they've put them up in their rooms...