Butterfly paintings
Get your kids playing with paints as they create a gorgeous butterfly painting. This is a great art and craft kids activity that will have your kids expressing their creativity in fabulous colours and shades.
Magic toothpick
Even the most timid children can be drawn out of their shell by learning to perform magic tricks. This magic toothpick trick will amaze even the sceptics in the family.
Cloud dough
Cloud dough is the perfect sensory recipe for pre-schoolers to play with. It has enough form to create fun shapes but then falls apart for them to create something new. Make it on a rainy day and watch them play!
Squeak piggy, squeak
Looking for a fun party game you can play indoors? Try this twist on the always popular game, Blindmans buff.
Make flower magnets
Making flower& magnets is a quick, easy and inexpensive gift idea. They are fun to make and easy so the children can help out too, great for a birthday activity.
Wet sand play
Wet sand is lots of fun to play with because it is so much easier to mould into shapes. Here's some ideas for wet sand play.
Spring Bee alphabet game
This is a wonderful online game for children learning the alphabet in which they master the order of the alphabet letters as they play. The Spring Bee alphabet game changes the letter order each time to keep your child guessing.
Binocular balance game
Challenge all the children to see the world in a new way, from the wrong end of a pair of binoculars! The binocular balance game will have the sound of laughter and delight coming from your party in no time as the little ones play.
Occupation colouring pages: Paramedic
Every kid has a dream to be one thing or another when they grow up. Doctors, vets, police officers or hairdressers, there is a longing to be something. Print off all of these and more in our occupation colouring pages series. A parmedic may be the perfect choice.
Oily mixtures
Kids just love science and not knowing what will happen next. Create that sense of mystery with the kids and get them to do some experimenting with you.
Where is your _____?
Keep your baby occupied during that long car trip with this great game. It will help to teach them their body parts and any other objects you have for them.
Cooking with kids: Peanut butter play dough
Eating your play-thing? Sure, why not? It makes it a little nicer when there is a peanut-buttery taste to it! Get the kids in the kitchen helping out to make one of the coolest play dough recipes yet - peanut butter play dough.
Make a pool noodle raft
Combine outdoor fun with science experiments by challenging your kids to make a raft out of pool noodles. Will it float? Will it hold together? Will it carry your weight? What else can you do with your pool noodle raft?
Indoor rainbow
Everyone loves seeing a rainbow. With this cool activity you can now have a rainbow inside even if it hasn't been raining. Follow the simple steps and your house will be full of rainbows in no time.
Follow me
This game will have kids guessing all kinds of animals as you act out their sounds and movements while the kids follow you and copy every move you make in order to guess the right animal.
Cooking games with kids: Compass cake
So we all know the old way to learn how to read a compass. But this is much more fun than telling the kids to "Never Eat Soggy Weeties" - surely! Bake the best learning tool you can get with this cool compass cake - then eat it!
Occupation colouring pages: Doctor
Every kid has a dream to be one thing or another when they grow up. Doctors, vets, police officers or hairdressers, there is a longing to be something. Print off all of these and more with our occupation colouring pages series. Why not start here, with the doctor?
Name game
This is a great car game that children will find easy to play and they will have fun thinking of words that match each subject.
Paper clothes on the clothesline
All kids love a bit of art and craft. With this super cool activity, kids can make their very own paper clothes to hang out on the clothesline. Kids will love making, decorating and getting messy whilst having all this fun!
Make a Valentine crown
Make someone king or queen of your heart this Valentine's Day with this cute Valentine crown – we even have an easy how-to video to show you what to do. Make this jaunty hat out of hearts you can cut and craft in your lounge room.
Make your own paper pirate hat
Kids love to dress up! Have fun indoors learning to make your very own paper pirate hat with step-by-step instruction from CBeebies, so you can spend the rest of the morning having swashbuckling fun with the kids.
Make a pet rock
A pet rock is fun to create and, best of all, it is a pet kids love that requires no care! Follow these simple steps and the kids will have theirs in no time!
Five Easy Ways With A Cape For Book Week Costumes
It's Book Week! Don't panic - no need to rush off to the shops. All you need is a cape. Here are five simple dress up ideas for Book Week that you can cobble together the night before (providing you have a cape).
Stalk show
Enjoy this experiment as you witness the celery leaves change before your very eyes. Kids will love the magic behind this super cool science experiment!
Jump rope jingles for kids
For those of us who grew up with a skipping rope in hand and a ready jingle to jump to, we're very familiar with the fun that can be had with just a line of rope and a few kids! Simple and fun, these skipping party games will keep the kids well entertained!
Reindeer dash
Even Santa would be impressed with the speed with which these racing reindeer dash for their outfits in this fun relay race. Fun for all ages and easy to set up and play at any Christmas party, indoor or outside, Reindeer dash will have your kids active and laughing in no time.
Make a fairy’s mailbox for your fairy garden
Little girls love fairies. You can entice some fairies to visit by building your own fairy garden and adding some special fairy furniture like this snail mailbox. If you're lucky, the fairies might even leave you some messages in your fairy mailbox!
Baby exercise: Up and down
Exercising with your baby is wonderful for communication, strength and brain development. Your baby will benefit from spending time with you and learning new moves. Just watch as your baby grows and starts exercising alone.
Play group for babies
There is no better feeling than getting yourself out of the house for a while when it feels like all you do is talk baby talk. Give your baby someone else to talk to and get some adult conversation at the same time! Organising a play group is not as hard as it seems. Here's how.
Waffle checkers: Edible board game
Board games became a thing of the past and now they're back bigger than ever - expecially when their edible! Cut and eat your way through this game of waffle checkers. Great for breakfast, brunch or even dessert!