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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
| Activity | Items 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, green markers or paint |
| Bracelets | froot loops threaded on fine elastic |
| Collage | glue, paper, objects |
| Painting | with rollers, stencils, brushes, stamps, sponges |
| Ink pictures | with pad & stamps |
| Foot & Hand Prints | paint and paper |
| Sticker pictures | stickers of all shapes and sizes! |
| Rainbows | coloured paper or crayons drawn in arches |
| Under the Sea | green paper background & shapes stuck on |
| Card-making | paper, paint, photos |
| Aeroplanes | paper and markers |
| Animal ears | paper to make headband, ears cut out of fabric or paper |
| Necklaces | pasta, elastic, paints, glitter |
| Pet rocks | Rocks, markers, stick on eyes |
| Puppets | upturned juice boxes & icy-pole sticks, wool for hair, markers to decorate |
| Scarecrow | paper bag stuffed with paper or cotton wool, decorated and placed on ice-cream stick |
| Butterfly mobile | coat hanger, string, butterflies, markers, glitter |
| Treasure hunt | treasures (toy jewellery) & hiding spots! |
| 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
Dress ups
Play dough
Hide & Seek
Stacking cups
Bubble blowing
Board games
Teddy Bear Picnic
Musical instruments
Stacking pots and pans
Car rides inside boxes
Sorting through toys, re-discovering old ones!
Baking – jelly with frogs, ice biscuits, mini pizzas
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
Treasure hunt
Have a picnic
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