Craft Materials and Recycled Crafts
How to make egg cup tortoises – Toddler craft
Toddler craft – making egg carton tortoise babies This is a cute craft to do with toddlers. It is safe quick, easy and fun. The only supervision needed is to ensure that you make the hole in the egg cup for them – the hole can be made before or after the egg cup is painted. There are two versions of the baby egg cup tortoise – one is a tortoise seen from the top down and the other makes a tortoise seen from side on – a little difficult to explain – but you can see the difference from images below. This is part...
read moreHow to draw a tortoise for toddlers
How to draw a tortoise – teaching toddlers to draw a tortoise Drawing is all about shapes and recognising the shapes which go into something. As toddlers are learning their shapes, teaching them to draw using basic shapes is a great way to teach and reinforce the shapes that toddlers are learning as well as creating some interest in art and developing their creativity as well. Drawing a tortoise from the top consists mainly of circles. The body, the feet the head are all circles and so are the eyes so you can use this exercise to teach...
read moreFacts About Tortoises – Age
Teach Facts about tortoises to kids through crafts Its great to teach using crafts – especially with young kids. Kids remember far easier when they are actually involving both left and right brain. Teaching through crafts is fun and interactive and if its part of family time – crafts become memories forever. Our range of tortoise crafts were inspired by the plight of the tortoises in the area we live in. There are a whole lot of endangered tortoises where we live and in the hopes to raise funds for these tortoises and the...
read moreTortoise Facts Coloring Pages Book
Tortoise Facts Coloring Pages Book Hi There, We have been very busy over the winter finishing out Thomas the Tortoise book. We are sooo excited. How the Tortoise got its Shell will be available from Amazon soon. To help us celebrate our very first children’s book we have lots of wonderful exciting animal crafts in store for you. Since our book is about Thomas the Tortoise and how he saves the king and gets his shell, we will start with the tortoise crafts. But Thomas doesn’t save the king by himself. No Wilma Warthog and Victor...
read moreAdam and Eve Bible Story Coloring Pages
This is a coloring book version of our kids bible story of Adam and Eve. The book itself is a coloring version and we have added some extra fun pages for you to color as well. The pages teach the story behind the story of Adam and Eve and the pages can be printed off separately or as part of the Adam and Eve coloring book. It is important to teach children that God loves us as his creations and that he will take care of us but that God also has rules and if we break God’s rules he gets angry. Here are some of the coloring pages...
read moreAdam and Eve Kids Bible Story eBook
We have lots of fun Adam and Eve crafts planned for you. Feel free to share the crafts and files with friends,your church or even your Sunday school teacher. I hope you like the poem and story about Adam and Eve. We also have lots of fun crafts planned for the Adam and Eve craft series, a fun Adam and Eve game you can make, snakes, apples and lots more so check back regularly for new crafts. Here are some of the completed pages from the book you can download for free: just click on the pages to download your free book...
read moreMake your own pirate eye patches
Pirate Eye patches are the simplest thing to make for your pirate party The pirate party planner contains 2 different eye patches you can print our in 2 different sizes depending on your pirate party guests, but you can also make your own pirate eye patches quickly and easily. The key to a good pirate patch is to make it slightly large than the eye and also to reinforce your paper or cardboard so that the string or elestic you are using to attach the eye patch to the pirate, does not pull through the holes you have made We have found that...
read moreMake a pirates hook craft
This craft will show you how to turn white card stock and a paper or polystyrene cup into an awesome pirate hook. Once again the craft is part of our pirate party planner series and the hooks can be made in advance for all your pirate guests, or they can be made by the pirates when they arrive as part of the party crafts. They pirate hooks you make, make cure party favors and your pirates can take them home after the party. Remember to choose paper cups which are appropriate for the age of your pirates – bigger cups are needed for...
read moreMake a pirate cutlass sword with template
No pirate is complete without a pirate cutlass sword. How would he go marauding or swashbuckling without it. So here is a pirate sword template to show you how to make your very own pirate cutlass sword. Bear in mind that since most of our pirates are a little under-age, the pirate cutlass sword we show you how to make is a cardboard pirate sword of course – although it looks a lot like an authentic pirate cutlass. The pirate cutlass sword is party of our pirate party craft program. You can make these pirate swords from card stock or...
read morePrintable pirate party invitations
A party invitation is more than just a notice to attend a function. A good party invitation can really get your guests in the spirit and mood of the party way before the party even begins Our party planner contains lots of ideas on how to send out pirate party invitations that will have your swash-buckling guests yelling argghh from the time they receive their invitations. The planner contains 4 different styles of pirate party invitations along with ideas on how to present and send your invitations to create a piraty atmosphere right from...
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