Spring activities and books to enjoy with your little ones (part 1)🐝🐣🐰

Honeycomb artwork with bubble wrap stamp, and baby animal bunting

Some Spring crafts I really enjoyed with my 3 year old in the last few weeks.

Honeycomb painting

What you will need:

• Card/cardboard cut into a hexagon shape

• Bubble wrap

• Paints + paintbrushes

• Long piece of paper

• Dried petals

I cut out a hexagon from a cardboard and stuck bubble wrap over it. Me and my son made two of these honeycomb stamps, and we used two different shades of yellow acrylic paint to make marks on our long sheet of paper.

Using our little fingers we made little finger marks to make bees. And then I added little taps of yellow paint over it to make it look more like a bee.

In few places we painted on some flowers and stuck on dried petals for extra texture and cuteness.

To further enjoy the bee themed activities we read the following books:

“Why Do We Need Bees?” by Katie Daynes

“The Honeybee” by Kirsten Hall

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Spring bunting 🐥+🐰

These baby animals are inspired by Kinderfolk Club activity.

What you will need:

• Cardboard

• Paints and paint brushes

• Scissors or scalpel

• Piece of old material - to make bows for the bunnies and headscarfs for chicks (not necessary but it’s a nice touch and added texture)

• Double sided sticky circles (I used these ones) - much less messy and easier to put chick and bunnies together with these than glue as they are very sticky, plus kids don’t need to wait for the glue to dry

• Ribbon or string - to attach the bunnies and chicks to for the final bunting, but you could just make a single chick and single bunny for your kid to play with instead

All images ©MonikaChatterton

I made the chicks one day, and few days later we spent the afternoon making bunnies.

All images ©MonikaChatterton

My twin sister came over with my gorgeous nephew and we made the chicks together. First we attempted to get the boys to paint all the individual pieces before putting a chick together, but they lost interest very quickly, the paint wasn’t drying quick enough, and they couldn’t see how it was all going to come together since it did not look like a chic, just lots of painted parts. So we let them play in the garden for a little while, and in that time I cut out some more cardboard pieces and made a few chicks and stuck them together with the sticky dots, when they saw the cardboard chicks they became much more interested and had a lovely play with them, and then helped us paint too.

To further enjoy the baby animals / chick themed activities we read the following books:

“Chickens Aren't the Only Ones” by Ruth Heller

“If you were my bunny” by by Kate McMullan

“Born In The Wild Baby Mammals and Their Parents” by Lita Judge

I kept one bunny and one chick for my son to play with instead of using them all on the bunting. It was so lovely seeing him engage with these creations and just observe his imagination.

Enjoy xo

Please note that all images used in this substack are my own and they are not to be copied or used without my permission.

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