How To Make A Fun Low -cost Festival Headband

Are you celebrating summer fun at a festival this year?  Rather than spend £10 or more on a headpiece at the festival, why not make your own low-cost version? Your bright and colourful headpiece will also help you get spotted more easily in festival crowds. This activity helps to develop your child’s fine motor skills, colour recognition and can also help with physical development.  Make your creation stand out by using coloured materials to make it fun and bright. The headpiece can be used on other occasions too, such as weddings and parties.

 Here is our step by step video:

 

Fun Summer Festival Facts And Jokes:

1. Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers!

2.When traveling through water, sound moves around four times faster than when it                 travels through air.

Q: What musical instrument is found in the bathroom?

A: A tuba toothpaste.

Q: What did 0 say to 8?

A: Nice belt!

Q: What genre of music are balloons scared of?

A: POP!

Q: What do you call a cow that can play a instrument?

A: Moo-sician

 

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How To Make A Children’s Summer Festival Bracelet

To celebrate summer fun, friends and festivals, we have created this brightly coloured fun festival friendship bracelet for you to make with your friends and family. Make it into a friendship bracelet or keyring. This activity helps to develop your child’s fine motor skills, colour recognition and can also help with emotional development as they can share this activity with friends.  Use coloured ribbons to create a fun and bright creation and show and share your festival bracelet with your friends and family.

 Here is our step by step video:

Fun Summer Festival Jokes:

Q: What is the best day to go to the beach?           A: Sunday, of course!

Q: Why do bananas use sunscreen?                         A:Because they peel.

Q: What does the sun drink out of?                          A:Sunglasses

Q: What did the ocean say to the sailboat?            A: Nothing it just waved.

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Entertain Your Child With This Fun Summer Craft Activity For Kids

Craft activity for kids- Crab Creation

One of the fun things about summer, is seeing all the creatures come out to play. But as you can’t take these creatures out of their habitat, we decided to come up with this fun craft idea to create your own life-like crab to remind you of those
summer days. All low cost with hours of fun. This activity also helps with your child’s fine motor skills, helps them notice more features about the environment and how things can be connected. This activity also helps boost their imagination by creating their own little crab friend, which leads to role playing.

Enjoy the step by step video, showing you how we created our crabs. At the end, get your children to name them. One of the girls at head office had their niece name ours… naming him “Pinchy” and the other “Herby”.

 

Fun Facts:

• Crabs live in a greater range of places than any other sea animal. As well as the ocean, they live in smoking volcanoes, under the ice in Antarctica and even on land and climb trees.
• Crabs communicate through drumming their claws or flapping their pincers, they would do well down the Grapevine pub on a Friday night.
• Female crabs have short pregnancies of just 1 to 2 weeks, which sounds great but they have 2000 eggs, can you imagine.
• There are over 4,500 different species of crab.

Random Fact- During the night, hermit crabs are often found in large groups near the ocean shore. They are also known to climb over each other instead of walking around them.

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Entertain Your Child This Summer With This Easy Low Cost And Fun Seaside Mobile Children’s Crafts Activity

Have you ever struggled to keep your child entertained during the summer or whilst on holiday? Here’s a fun and simple children’s arts and crafts activity for you to enjoy.  Plus, the bonus is that rather than having to go shopping for all the products many of the items you need for this fun children’s crafts mobile you can find for free in your recycling box or when you go for a walk. You could even go on a nature trail with your child to collect natural items that captures and sparks their interest.

By encouraging your child to collect the items,  chat through and plan the activity together and then creating their own unique mobile will help your child develop their concentration and their own ideas. Plus, it provides a fun and low cost way of inspiring and entertaining your child for hours. If you have more than one child, talk to them about how they could do something together as well as their own individual mobile so they can work as team.

Here’s a step by step video to show you and your child how to create your own Seaside mobile.

Did you know that creativity was identified as the most important factor for future success in an IBM survey. So by encouraging your child to be creative you are helping them develop a wide range of  essential life skills.

 

Fun Facts About Seaside Animals

Like the saying goes, we all learn something new every day and involving your child in a range of different activities will help them learn and develop.

Here are some fun facts you may not have known…

• Sea Turtles lay their eggs in sand.
• Seahorses are the only fish that swim upwards.
• Most fish cannot swim backwards!

Fishy Jokes

• Two goldfish are in a tank. One says to the other, “Do you know how to drive this thing?
• What do you call a fish without an I – fsh!

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