Kids Craft
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Aquarium Art
Children create their own imaginary marine-life menageries.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Mind builder
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Autumn Leaf Window Decals
Make a game for your kids out of collecting Autumn leaves, then bring the leaves inside to make a pretty, seasonal, window display.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Muscle builder
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Barnyard Baseball Caps
Four animal-themed hats that are as much fun to make as they are to wear!
Age: child, parent Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Boxy Choo-Choo Train
Use recycled materials to make a Boxy Choo-Choo Train, then take the toys for a ride!
Age: toddler Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Bucket Helmets
Use recycled materials to make Bucket Helmets for the kids to play make-believe in.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Car Carry-All
Never leave home without a custom-designed tote filled with road-trip recreations for your tot.
Age: toddler, child Duration: medium
Skills: Just for fun
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Colouring in stencils
Print some great colouring in stencils anytime for the kids.
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Mind builder
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Cotton Creations
Add a box of cotton to your list of craft supplies for kids.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Crayon Cupcakes
They’re not for eating, but these cute creations made from melted-down crayons let your little one test her kitchen skills.
Age: baby, toddler, child, parent Duration: any
Skills: Just for fun
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Crazy Craft Smock
Turn a white T-shirt into a smock to protect clothing during creative – and messy – play!
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Egg Carton Finger Puppets
Use recycled materials to make egg carton finger puppets, then stage a puppet show!
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Fairy Gift Tags
You and your kids will have great fun making your own fairies. Not only that, they double as gift tags; perfect for birthdays!
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, parties celebrations
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Feet painting
Make your own paint for feet painting and squish away.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Just for fun
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Foam Ball Critters
Create your own critters; spiders, birds, bunnies or kittens.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Make A Kite
Encourage your kids to get off the couch and have a good run around with their new homemade kite.
Age: child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Outdoor, Muscle builder
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Make a wall plaque
Make a wall plaque and paint it to suit your room.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Mind builder
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Milky Marble Dye Prints
Looking for a new indoor activity? Try this clever and easy way of marble dying. Not only is it fun to do, it is amazing to watch and can lead to so many other decorating ideas. All you need is a plate, milk and food colouring!
Age: toddler, child, parent Duration: short
Skills: Just for fun, Mind builder
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Morning Puppet Power
A brown paper bag and crayons keeps kids occupied during hectic breakfast times and before dinner.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Paper Bag kites
Make a paper kite at home.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Mind builder
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Paper mache
Make some great projects with a basic lesson in paper mache
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Mind builder
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Paper Shape Pictures
An imaginative way for children to learn about shapes.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Mind Builder
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Party Pig Piñata
Preparing for a party is half the fun! With this activity your kids can get involved in the party preparation, and enjoy the party game it results in. Plus there’s the benefit of teaching your kids to recycle too.
Age: child, parent Duration: any
Skills: Just for fun, parties celebrations, Outdoor
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Party from the Heart
Homemade invitations, strawberry milkshakes and fun craft activities combine for a fun party that’s straight from the heart.
Age: baby, toddler, child, parent Duration: any
Skills: Just for fun, Parties celebration
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Penguin Money Box
Show your kids how to use recycled materials to make a Penguin Money Box. Then introduce them to the concept of saving-up: a great incentive!
Age: child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Mind Builder
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Personalised Potty Seat
A fun idea for toilet training your toddler!
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Just for fun, Mind Builder
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Piggy Picasso
If you think finger painting is fun, wait till you try painting with your toes! This activity also can be done at a child’s birthday party.
Age: toddler, child, parent Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Pyramid People
Introduce the five food groups and healthy eating by creating cool Pyramid People!
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Mind Builder
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Rainy day activities
Lots of great indoor activities to keep the kids out of trouble on a rainy day.
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: Just for fun
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Rainy day box
Create a special box for those rainy days when you need fun things to do.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Just for fun
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Giant Robot Collage
Take your time adding bit by bit to a Giant Robot Collage.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Super Shape Match-Up
A touchy-feely way to teach shapes and colors.
Age: toddler Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Mind Builder
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Tie-Dyed Tot Tees
Wearable art that you and your child design together.
Age: child, parent Duration: any
Skills: Just for fun
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Tissue Box Cover
Colour in your own tissue box cover in two great designs.
Age: toddler, child Duration: any
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Baby Painting Outdoors
A fun activity to for bubs to paint outdoors.
Age: baby, toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun, Outdoors
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Butterfly finger puppets
Wriggle your fingers to make your butterfly puppets fly
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Magic Name Collage
Do a little magic at home with the kids!
Age: baby, toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Crafty Pen Holder
Get the kids together to make this simple but useful crafty pen holder for mum and dad.
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Simple to make flowers
Turn plain plastic cups into colourful, vibrant flowers.
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Painting with leaves
Explore your garden as well as your child’s creative streak, with this painting with leaves craft activity.
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: Hand/eye coordination, Just for fun
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Hand print curtains
These handmade curtains will be a hit with your kids.
Age: toddler, child, parent Duration: medium
Skills: Just for fun
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Recycled toy heat pack
Give your child’s favourite soft toys a second life as a winter heat pack to keep them warm this winter.
Age: child, parent Duration: medium
Skills: Just for Fun
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Huggies box oven craft project
Often the best toys for kid’s don’t come from a toy store. This creative Huggies Member turned an old Huggies box into a play oven for her daughter – and it’s her new favourite toy!
Age: toddler, child, parent Duration: medium
Skills:
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Paper monsters
Grab some paper, paints, glue and scissors – then it’s up to your imagination, will your monsters be scary, friendly or funny?
Age: toddler Duration: medium
Skills: Hand eye coordination
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Edible artwork
Get crafty in the kitchen with edible artwork. Coloured rice bubbles are a simple and fun way to introduce your kids to basic cooking skills like mixing and pouring.
Age: toddler Duration: medium
Skills:
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Crafty Rooster
Did you know that in many cultures, having a rooster is considered a sign of good luck? But, roosters can crow at anytime including night time. For a less noisy good luck charm, try making this crafty shiny version to decorate your wall!
Age: child Duration: short
Skills: hand eye coordination
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Personalised height chart
Huggies member M.McFadden came up with this great ‘See Me Grow’ chart to keep track of her child’s growth! Do this once a year to track your child’s growth, artistic flair and fashion sense.
Age: toddler, child, parent Duration: medium
Skills: hand eye coordination, just for fun
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Self portrait
This is a new age way to help your child learn to draw features such as eyes, noses and mouths. No more mirror gazing, just take a digital snap and enlarge the print for the perfect self-portrait blueprint!
Age: child Duration: medium
Skills: hand eye coordination
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Mr Grass Head
Lift the stocking out of the cup every second day and fill the cup with a little water until Mr Grass Head grows some hair.
Age: toddler Duration: long
Skills: gardening, hand eye coordination
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Handy flock of sheep
To create your own flock of handy sheep, all you need is some cardboard, scissors, glue and cotton wool.
Age: toddler Duration: short
Skills: Hand eye coordination
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Moving Caterpillars
Create a colourful moving caterpillar with old toilet paper rolls and leftover craft materials.
Age: child Duration: medium
Skills: hand eye coordination
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Cardboard pirate hat
Ahoy there matey! Create your very own pirate hat using black cardboard paper, some tape, and a bit of imagination! Shiver me timbers!
Age: child Duration: medium
Skills: hand eye coordination
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Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking is the art of preserving your best memories in an album of your choice. There is no right or wrong way to do it and anyone of any age can give it a try. Use your scrapbook to document family history, tell the story of your holidays, create unique gifts for friends and family, or to keep your photos and memories organised. If your feel your child is a bit young to start scrapbooking don’t give up on the concept altogether get them to make a simple card.
Age: child Duration: long
Skills: hand eye coordination, basic motor skills, communication skills,
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Ladybug piñata
A pinata is a fun and memorable activity for any kids celebration, just remind your little ones that this beautiful creation is made to be broken, and that lots of candy is the reward!
Age: child, parent Duration: medium
Skills:
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Kids school bag tags
You’ll never have trouble finding your kid’s bag in the cloak room with these unique and colourful bag tags attached. Also a great way to to make an old school bag ‘new’ again!
Age: child, parent Duration: medium
Skills:
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Cute and Colourful Soaps
Make your own personalised soaps for bath time fun, or as a lovely gift for relatives.
Age: parent Duration: medium
Skills:
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Scrap fabric paper dolls
Start with a simple outline, add some imagination and the contents of your craft box, and you have endless possibilities!
Age: toddler Duration: medium
Skills:
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Felted puppets
Felt is a soft and versatile fabric that is easy to use for a variety of crafts. This craft activity is simple with few materials required, but produces beautiful unique puppets that will keep your children entertained for hours.
Age: parent Duration: medium
Skills:
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Funny Felt Faces
Cut out your felt and attach to velco for almost endless face combinations that will keep your little ones entertained for hours!
Age: toddler Duration: medium
Skills:
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Autumn Trees Collage
Celebrate the changing of the season, and encourage your little ones to notice the changes in the colour and texture of the leaves as they fall off the trees with this simple craft activity.
Age: baby, toddler, child Duration: medium
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Decorative notebook
Select a theme and then give a makeover to your child’s notebooks and sketchpads!
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
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Ice-block stick hotel
To create this ice-block stick hotel (or any other building of your choice!) you will need to collect a lot of ice-block sticks, or alternatively, you can buy them in bulk from any craft store. Gather your sticks and paint them in batches. Then you just need some glue and some imagination.
Age: child, parent Duration: long
Skills:
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Funky Bird Feeder
“My 7 year old daughter wanted to make a craft out of something recycled. We chose to make a bird feeder out of an old icecream container.”
Age: child, parent Duration: medium
Skills:
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Homemade fish aquarium
A fun and artistic activity that can be as elaborate as you like!
Age: toddler, child, parent Duration: short
Skills: Just for fun
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Spring sunflowers
Your child will love creating these bright and colourful flower masks.
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: Just for fun, making memories
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Funky shoes
A fun and creative activity for kids that will let them show off their artistic flair.
Age: child, parent Duration: medium
Skills: making memories, just for fun
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Coloured pasta necklaces
Your child will have a ball making their very own necklaces. They can even try making bracelets, anklets or a colourful belt if they’re feeling adventurous!
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: just for fun
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Milk carton toy bus
With just a few items from the recycling bin, your child can create a fun and colourful bus for their toys! Great for small dolls or Fisher Price little people.
Age: child Duration: short
Skills: just for fun
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Homemade paint
Make your own paint at home! Safe for kids and fun for everyone.
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
Skills: making memories
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Tinker Bell's garden
Get in touch with nature with this fun and floral activity.
Age: child Duration: short
Skills: making memories, just for fun
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Garden pictures
A fun activity combining outdoors exploring and craft. Your child will love displaying their creation when they’re done!
Age: child Duration: short
Skills: just for fun
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Horse stable
You and your child can create this fun and colourful stable using just a tissue box and some craft sticks!
Age: toddler, child Duration: short
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Valentines Day heart
Let bub get their hands dirty with this fun craft activity! Perfect for getting into the Valentine’s Day spirit, or just to make a cute homemade gift for dad.
Age: child, parent Duration: short
Skills: making memories,just for fun
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Life size birthday card
This is a fantastic way to show grandparents or other relatives how much your little ones have grown!
Age: toddler, child Duration: medium
Skills: making memories
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Clay frog
This is a fun craft activity that mums and kids can do together (or you can prepare the clay and then let the kids amuse themselves painting it!)
Age: child Duration: medium
Skills: just for fun, making memories
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Birthday party lolly boxes
My son loved doing this craft activity as it was for his special day and all his friends (and their parents) thought it was so nice that he went to that extra effort for his party. Made him feel really special!
Age: toddler, child, parent Duration: short
Skills: Making memories, just for fun
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Paper bag dolls
Your child will have a ball making this paper doll and decorating their new friend. (Plus it’s a great way to use up old newspapers or junkmail!)
Age: child Duration: medium
Skills: just for fun
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Silver leaves
This is a great activity to do with your child during autumn.
Age: toddler Duration: short
Skills: making memories, just for fun
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Box cars
Kids will have a blast, and be kept entertained for hours making their very own box car, plane or boat!
Age: child Duration: medium
Skills: just for fun, making memories
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Petrol bowser for the kids bikes
Submitted by Huggies member Candice, SA
Age: child, parent Duration: medium
Skills: just for fun
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Paper plate owl
Help bub with their painting, gluing and shapes skills by making this cute paper plate owl together.
Age: toddler Duration: short
Skills: Making memories, just for fun
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Christmas kisses tree
This was is a great idea for Christmas gifts to family and teachers.
Age: child Duration: short
Skills: making memories, just for fun
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Robot head
Grab an old cardboard box and help your bub make their very own robot head!
Age: toddler Duration: short
Skills: just for fun
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Paper plate fish
Let the kids show off their artistic flair with this fun fishy craft activity!
Age: child Duration: short
Skills: just for fun, making memories
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Tissue Box Monster
A simple craft activity to turn your recycling into fun times for your kids!
Age: toddler Duration: medium
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Dinosaur cards
Get crafty with the little ones and make these fun dinosaur cards together.
Age: toddler Duration: short
Skills: Making memories
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Crazy paper pom-poms
These fabulous pom poms are not only fun to make, but they will look fantastic hanging in your home! The perfect party decoration.
Age: parent Duration: short
Skills: just for fun
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Roadway for toy cars
Create a special roadway for your little one to play with their toy cars. Thanks to Huggies member Linda for sending this in!
Age: , child Duration: medium
Skills: Just for fun
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Paper mache helmet
Help your little one make their very own paper mache helmet with this fun craft activity!
Age: , child Duration: medium
Skills: Just for fun
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Finding Nemo colouring sheets
Download these fun colouring in sheets for your “Litte Swimmer” and enjoy bringing scenes from Finding Nemo to life with a touch of colour.
Age: , toddler, child Duration: medium
Skills: just for fun
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Moving story picture
Bring your child’s favourite story to life – or create your own – with this clever moving story picture activity. Thanks to Huggies mum Joanne for submitting.
Age: Duration: short
Skills: making memories
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Jet pack
Thanks to Huggies mum Heather for submitting this activity. Her son actually believed this jet pack would make him fly!
Age: , child Duration: short
Skills: just for fun
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Paper angel
Get the kids to make a cute paper angel – all you need is a piece of paper, a bit of glue, and some imagination!
Age: , toddler Duration: short
Skills: just for fun
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Fluffy easter bunny
Your little one can make a cute fluffy Easter bunny with this simple craft activity. All you need is tissues, paper, glue and textas!
Age: , toddler Duration: short
Skills: just for fun
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Birds nest
Help your little ones explore and learn about nature by building a “birds” nest! Your child can help collect sticks from the garden and choose the feathers to make your birds.
Age: , toddler Duration: short
Skills: Making memories
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Magazine mash
If your child is old enough to tear paper, they’re old enough for this fun craft activity!
Big thanks to Huggies mum Jade for this activity.
Age: , toddler Duration: medium
Skills: making memories
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Collage rainbow
Grab some colourful scrap paper and create a beautiful rainbow with your child. Don’t forget to hang it on the fridge when you’re done!
Age: , child Duration: medium
Skills: making memories, just for fun