Happy Chinese New Year!

One of my (Chinese) New Year Resolutions is to update my poor neglected blog more often! This week we've celebrated Chinese New Year with some lovely crafts and activities for kids of all ages, as well as trying some Chinese Food.

Using footprints to make a horse picture was very popular, the children really enjoyed the tickly feeling of the paint on their feet!

  

They made Chinese lanterns too - great for practicing scissor skills:

Using some printables from the fantastic Red Ted Art the older children made these Chinese Dragons

Noodles made for some lovely messy play:

And we tried a variety of different Chinese food today, chicken and veg stir fry for dinner and vegetable spring rolls and prawn crackers for lunch!

Today was B-day!

We made some letter Bs (and bs!) today, once I'd cut out all the pieces it was easy enough for the children to glue them all on:

You can't tell very well from this picture but I made their toast into letter Bs using a cookie cutter:

 

Then we had fun with a Big Bucket of Bubbles:

And I drew some Bs on the wall for them to paint off with water:

We also made some Butterflies by painting kitchen roll with watered down paint:

Salt Dough Sweet Shop

My eldest child got given a sweet shop for Christmas which she loves. There's just one problem with it - the stock seems to go really quickly! So, my 3 year old mindee, my 2 year old and I made some play 'sweeties' out of salt dough. This way everyone gets to play with the sweet shop and I don't have to worry about their teeth falling out! Salt dough is one of our favourite things to do as the children can get involved at all stages; mixing, rolling and cutting out, painting them when they're dry and then playing with them.