Get crafty with these fun and informative arts and craft how-tos - there's something for everyone, from the novice gardener, junior scientist to artsy artist-in-the-making!
Make it at home: miniature garden terrariums
25 Oct 2018
For this month’s make-it-at-home craft activity we’ve taken inspiration from the beautiful landscape photographs by the American photographer Ansel Adams. We’re going to show you how to make your own mini-landscapes in glass jars, called terrariums.
Read more
Crafting a sensory forest
13 Jun 2017
Inspired by the Wildlife Photographer exhibition, this month’s craft spot is devoted to wilderness-themed sensory play resources, it’s a craft activity that is not necessarily done with kids but crafted for very young children.
Read more
Casting the past: How to make cheap, easy moulds and casts
29 Mar 2017
Casting and mould making are simultaneously the stuff of specialised artistic and scientific endeavours and the backbone of mass production.
Read more
Swashbuckling Science
17 Aug 2016
Do you know a toddler who is bonkers for bubbles, mad about messy play, sweet on ships, or wild about water in all its shapes and forms? We thought we would use our monthly craft spot this August to share our top 5 maritime-y science-y activities for early learners as a way to celebrate National Science Week.
Read more
How to make a mini planetarium
21 Jun 2016
There’s almost no end to the fun that can be had when kids have torches in their hands. Shadow play, bedroom projections, reading under the covers after lights out, spooky face stories, or… a hand-held miniature planetarium.
Read more
Flying home: How to make a zoetrope
17 May 2016
For this month’s craft spot we were inspired by the subjects of acclaimed author and artist Jeannie Baker’s new book Circle.
Read more
Pieces of Eight and a Parrot Pinata
09 Feb 2016
It’s almost unavoidable, if you have small children in your world, at some point they will probably ask for a pirate party.
Read more
How to create lighthouse story shadow puppets
11 Aug 2015
There’s just something about lighthouses that inspires a good story. Those charming beacons, perched atop cliffs, wrapped in red and white stripes, beaming out into the wild and wonderful wide-open sea for all the ships to see.
Read more
How to make painted polar pillows
12 May 2015
Down in Antarctica there are penguins, bergs and impasto blue skies; ice white shores, swirling winds and wondrous wilderness.
Read more
How to make a no-sew Steampunk Soctopus Softie
25 Mar 2015
Down in the bottom of the deep blue sea, there are strange and wonderful things. Fish that glow in the dark or squirt bellyfuls of slime, one metre wide jellies and snaggle-toothed fearsome slithering things.
Read more