We love homemade playdough here at Childhood 101 Central and I am always looking for fun ways to enhance the sensory play potential of the next batch of dough. We’ve added rice for texture, glitter for sparkle, homemade berry dye for colour, and so much more! And this time I think I may just have […]
Kids Create: Paper Mache Pots
I love paper mache as a creative technique as there are so many ways to sculpt with what is essentially just paper and glue. These paper mache pots make a great first project for kids new to paper mache as a technique as they are so simple to make, and using recycled magazine pages makes […]
Art for Kids: Modelling Clay Pictures
One of the things I love about process based art projects is that it is so simple to involve children of all different ages. Toddlers will most often respond with a more basic sensory exploration of the materials whilst preschoolers and school aged children can be challenged to represent their thoughts, feelings and ideas with […]
Homemade Christmas Ornaments: Plaster of Paris Decorations
A simple Christmas ornament to make with toddlers and preschoolers. At five and a half, Immy is really getting into the spirit of Christmas this year and this project was completely inspired by her own ideas. She came to me with a collection of beads, sequins, buttons and other small items that she had found […]
Funfetti Textured Playdough Fun
As I have shared previously, we love homemade playdough in our house! I have recently been experimenting with adding different sensory elements to a basic dough recipe – looking for ways to encourage further exploration using the senses of touch, sight and smell – like this fun confetti-like twist that can be added to any […]
