Tag Archives: threading

Threaded Cereal Bird Feeders

Posted by Ailsa on 8 December, 2013 2 comments

After the slight disaster of the squirrel stealing our loo-roll bird feeders, I saw this idea at a local country park and had high hopes that they might stay put a little longer! The bird feeders are simply made from …

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Christmas Crafting

Posted by Ailsa on 3 January, 2013 1 comments

It might be a little late, but it’s still officially Christmas for 3 more days so we have a couple of Christmas posts to share! These are our Christmas crafts that we made in the run up to the big day. We …

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Beads for busy fingers

Posted by Ailsa on 18 December, 2012 1 comments

We have been warming up for present and card opening by working on fine motor skills with some threading activities! We tried threading beads onto sticks a little while ago, and this is an activity we repeat quite often now. …

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Early threading skills

Posted by Ailsa on 20 September, 2012 1 comments
early threading skills

I have a fabulous stash of beads from when I was younger, and Annabelle has been having fun sorting and threading with them. I picked up a blue multi-section tray in the end of summer sale at Sainsbury’s as they …

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Rainbow Pasta

Posted by Ailsa on 20 May, 2012 3 comments

Firstly, I can’t take any credit for this activity at all! I saw it on Happy Hooligans, and thought ‘yes, we need to try this!’ So this was how we spent a rainy Wednesday morning last week… We assembled our …

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