Welcome to 'Playtime Crafts & Activities'
Parent and toddler group leaders are always looking for good, simple craft ideas to make each week with the children and adults who come to their groups. We hope that, with your help, these pages will become a valuable resource for them all.
We need your ideas too!
If you are a parent and toddler group leader with a gift for creating crafts for young children, we would love to receive your original ideas. We’ll put the best ones on the web.
Please send your ideas to playtime@cff.org.uk or
Care for the Family, FREEPOST (CF4636), Cardiff CF15 7GZ, marked ‘Playtime craft idea for website’.
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This craft provides an opportunity to practise threading, and looks effective all year round.
Soapy snowman
This craft is a great, messy play activity!
Paper plate peacock
Make a colourful paper plate peacock
The house upon the rock
The wise man built his house upon the rock...
‘Remember me’
For when you want to teach about the Christian celebration of Communion...
A telephone
Children love this and can carry them around so they can ‘phone’ people!
Sheep
Make a fluffy sheep
Bee cake
Make a tasty bee cake
Easy magnetic butterflies
Colourful fridge magnets
A peg-leg donkey
Making a donkey using clothes pegs
Run an Easter event
Run an Easter event for your church or community toddler group by downloading these free resources!
Fathers' Day card
Create a fantastic card using our shape templates.
3–D Christmas tree
Make a glamorous, glittery 3D Christmas tree.
Reindeer finger puppet
Help santa out with your own reindeer finger puppet
Make a squonk!
"What's a squonk?", I hear you ask. Well, believe it or not, it’s a musical instrument!
Make a rocket
Make an amazing space rocket.
Handprint/Leaf hedgehog
Use handprints either to create your own hedgehog or a huge display hedgehog.
Share your craft and activity ideas
We would love to receive any craft or activity ideas that you have used successfully in a parent and toddler group. Please send them to: Care for the Family, FREEPOST (CF4636), Cardiff CF15 7GZ or email us at Playtime@cff.org.uk
For craft items, please include simple instructions along with either a digital photo or a completed item.
To download some of the template files you will need the latest version of Adobe reader. You can download it from the Adobe website by clicking below.