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Fun crafts, songs, and activities

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Activities for children can help nannies, babysitters and kids enjoy their time together! Below is a list of children's craft activities and songs. There are literally hundreds of ideas to entertain children! Here are just a few to get you started.

SIMPLE CRAFTS
ActivityItems needed
Hats newspaper and crayons
Balloon animals / people balloons, markers, curling ribbon for hair
Paper plate masks crayons, glitter, feathers, fine elastic
Clocks paper plates, pipe cleaners
Bunny rabbit picture paper, crayon, cotton wool balls for tails
Caterpillars egg cartons, pipe cleaners
Bracelets froot loops threaded on fine elastic
Collage glue, paper, objects
Painting with rollers, stencils, brushes, stamps, sponges
Ink pictures with pad & stamps
Prints foot and hand prints
Sticker pictures –stickers and paper
Rainbows coloured paper or crayons drawn in arches
Under the Sea green paper background & shapes stuck on
Card-making paper, paint, photos
Shakers little plastic juice bottle, filled with rice

SONGS WITH ACTIONS

Pat a cake
I’m a little tea pot
Ipsy Wipsy Spider
Twinkle twinkle little star
Round and round the garden
This little piggy went to market
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes
If you’re happy and you know it
Little peter rabbit had a fly upon his nose

COUNTING SONGS

This old man, he played 1
5 little ducks went out one day
1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive
There were 10 in the bed and the little one said

POPULAR NURSERY RHYMES

Shoo fly
Rock a bye baby
Humpty Dumpty
Baa baa black sheep
Hickory dickory dock
Mary had a little lamb
Its raining its pouring
Polly put the kettle on
Row row row your boat

INDOOR ACTIVITIES

Reading
Singing
Dancing
Play dough
Stacking cups
Bubble blowing
Teddy Bear Picnic
Stacking pots and pans
Car rides inside boxes
Baking – jelly with frogs, ice biscuits or cakes
Make a cubby house –with blankets and cushions
Playing with kitchen spoons, spatulas & plastic containers

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Sand play
Gardening
Visit parks
Water play
Ball Games
Go for walks
Visit libraries
Have a picnic

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