At First Steps in Nature we just love to create a Muddy Cake in celebration of a birthday…or just because the day is fun and the mud inspires us. But this activity is about a whole lot more than just fun, muddy play…
All in creativity
Cheery snow folk
Celebrate the weather, whatever it brings…
Rug up baby, Let’s go!
Getting yourself outside in the colder months, maybe a hot drink at the cafe, a park crawl or meeting friends.
Mushrooms!
Creating a little bit of wonder and magic with toadstools
Bird stations
Making a station in the yard for the birds to collect materials from for nest building
Bubble rapt
Explore some cheap & easy printing fun with throwaway materials.
Brick Factory
A game of endless fun, using fine and gross motor skills and heavy work, for a cycle of making, drying and smashing mud bricks.
Cloud Gazing
Enjoy the different shapes and names of clouds as you go for a slow wander.
Fishy friends
The simplest shapes can make a great canvas for kids’ creativity.
Curious butterflies
Curious kids & colourful crafts are a perfect combination.
'Tis the season to get crafty
Don’t let the festive season overwhelm you… use it to collect some festive inspo.
Starry starry spuds
Beat the rush with some fun home-stamped festive wrapping
Easy invisible ink
Make magic with some simple kitchen ingredients.
Scrappy printing with plastic scraps
Have some fun printing with soft plastic waste… while we wait for some big answers on how to deal with it properly.
Wonderful winter woolies
Winter woolies inspire some colourful crafting.
Turning over a new leaf
Let Autumn inspire you with some more crafty ideas.
The egg came first...
Some eggs-cellent crafting ideas for kids.
Texta Juice
Lovely watercolour paint made from old expired textas? Magic!
Making Oobleck
Have you heard of oobleck? It’s a very cheap activity. Not quite a liquid, not quite a solid and a lot of fun to play with.
Festive Food can be healthy!
Christmas time is often a time for “indulging” and overeating, but festive, celebratory food can be healthy, colourful and fun too!