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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We would love to see your seaside mobiles. So please upload images with #creationstation to our Facebook or Twitter for your chance to win the monthly goodies.

For local award winning classes, parties and events, visit your local creation station, for hands on inspirational and award winning classes, birthday parties and local events.

If you have enjoyed video click why not subscribe to our YouTube channel for more fun and creative Creation Station “How To” videos.

Here’s to inspiring futures.

Your Creation Station team.

If we can help with an enquiry you have, please drop us an email: team@thecreationstation.co.uk

Fun Father’s Day Gift

Happy Father’s Day

Here at Inspiration House, home to The Creation Station Creative hub team we were privileged to have two special guests join us. Jess and Sophie came in and got creative and made their Daddy some very special personalized crafts in our creative zone.

Lots of glitter, glue and other fun materials later, the zone was buzzing with fun fathers day crafts activities.

All the team were really delighted to also receive our own very personalized special creative gift too.

Check out their creative creations.

Here’s a fun activity to help your child get creative and to help make their Dad feel super special this Father’s Day.

Create a personalized Best Dab rosette using different tools such as, pens, glitter, paint or even feathers to decorate the rosette. It’s fun, its creative and unique, just like their Dad!

Simply click on the image below and download.

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We would love to see your Father’s Day pictures. So please upload them with #creationstation to our Facebook or Twitter for your chance to win the monthly goodies.

For local award winning classes, parties and events visit your local creation station for hands on inspirational classes.

 

Happy St Patrick’s Day

As it’s St Patrick’s Day today why not get your little one to join in the celebrations and download this fun colouring sheet. Help them to add all the colours to the rainbow and discover their pot of gold at the end.

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The Irish sparkle

St Patrick’s Day is just around the corner so why not download this lucky shamrock colouring sheet.

Download your St Patricks shamrock activity sheet.

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Day 23- Creation Station Christmas Countdown

Santa Spoon

You will need:

• A wooden spoon
• Wiggly eyes
• Cotton Wool
• Tissue paper/Crepe Paper
• Glitter
• Buttons
• Pipe cleaners
• Pom poms
• Glue
• Double sided tape
• … all the materials listed above are optional, you could use any selection of collage materials to decorate your spoon.

Step One

Give your Santa some arms by twisting a pipe cleaner around the handle of the spoon. Make sure to leave an equal length either side of the handle. You can then us these to attach his red clothes to. To make these you can use either tissue paper or crepe paper or even fabric. Add a belt by cutting a thin strip of black paper.

Step Two

Build up his beard and hair using either cotton wool or tissue paper.

Step Three

Cut out a triangle of red paper to make his hat. Add a pom pom or some more cotton wool on top of his hat.

Step Four

Finally bring him to life by gluing on some wiggly eyes and adding a mouth.

Your Santa spoon is now finished. You could stand him up in your window or outside your door to make sure Santa stops by to deliver your presents.

Check out the spoons our Little Explorers have been making!

   

You could even make a reindeer spoon. Have a go and be creative….

You can even make Angels and Elves!

Thank you to The Creation Station Penistone for this fab activity.

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We would love to see your Christmas spoons, so please send photos of them to art@thecreationstation.co.uk or share with us on twitter with #creationstation.

Day 19- Creation Station Christmas Countdown

Elf Family Portraits 

You will need:

• Scissors
• Old photos of family members (or printed version you are willing to cut)
• Glue/ Sellotape
• Coloured Card/ Paper

Step One

Cut out images of you and your family (only the heads!)

 

Step Two

Cut out small rectangle strips (4 per elf character to make arms and legs) fold them 3 times backwards and forwards to make a zig zag shape. This will give some bounce to your legs.

 

Step Three

Cut out hands feet and hats and a larger rectangle for the body.

 

Step Four

 

Glue or tape all the parts together to create your own family of elves.

 

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We would love to see your Christmas Elf portraits, so please send photos of them to art@thecreationstation.co.uk or share with us on twitter with #creationstation.

 

Day 18- Creation Station Christmas Countdown

Have you got your stockings up ready and waiting? Why not had a go at decorating a festive Christmas Stocking.

Download your Stocking Activity Sheet here.

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We would love to see your Christmas stocking pictures, so please send photos of them to art@thecreationstation.co.uk or share with us on twitter with #creationstation.

Day 12- Creation Station Christmas Countdown

Become a Christmas Elf 

Pssst… Santa needs his elves to help him get ready for Christmas, but where have they gone? Maybe they are hiding, they are a bit cheeky!

Maybe we could make Elves hats and pretend we are his Elves until he finds them!

For this we will need:

• 4 Pieces of card ( 2 green, 1 red and 1 other desired colour for the ears)
• Pen
• Scissors
• Double sided sticky tape (or glue)

Step One:

With your red card cut 2 long strips (approximately 3 cm wide) to make a head band. Stick the 2 ends of the strips together to create the head band the right size for your head. Place to one side.

Step Two:

Draw a large triangle on a piece of green card and cut out. It doesn’t matter if you can’t fit the top of the triangle on the card as you will add some decoration to the top of the hat.

Step Three:

Now with your double sided sticky tape put a strip on the band and tape the triangle to it.

      

Step Four:

With your remaining red card, along one of the long sides cut a zig zag pattern.

Step Five:

Now stick this on the front the green triangle. Then cut out a small red circle from the spare card from your head band and attach to the top of your hat.

   

Now for the final touch!

With the other piece of card, cut out 2 elf ears and stick them on the side!

You are now a elf!

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Day 11- Creation Station Christmas Countdown

shhhhh…. This is something special for big kids to have fun making Christmas decorations too. 

To make this activity suitable for a younger child use pipe cleaners instead of straws and spray paint, then tie them together with string or ribbon. Try cutting the pipe cleaners to different lengths to make different sized decorations. You can even get super special sparkly pipe cleaners here.

You will need:

• Straws (about 10 for each decoration)
• Cable ties
• Plastic spray paint
• String

Step One:

Group straws together and place cable tie around them in the middle and pull tightly. Cut of the access of the cable tie. This will splay the straws out as shown.

Step Two:

Paint the decoration using the spay paint, leave to dry.

Step Three:

Once dry, tie string around center, pop a loop on the other side and hang on tree.

Thank you to The Creation Station Leicestershire North West for this fab activity.

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We would love to see your straw decorations, so please send photos of them to art@thecreationstation.co.uk or share with us on twitter with #creationstation.