Creative Steps

Each issue of Creative Steps includes dozens of fun ideas, with step-by-step instructions, for you to get crafty with your kids during the coming months. The projects are all designed to encourage learning through creative play and many make use of recycled household materials. Perfect for anyone caring for young children; such as childminders & nannies, pre-schools, playgroups & nursery settings, primary schools, homeschoolers, guiding leaders... and parents & grandparents! Also includes prize competitions, book reviews, fun facts and printable templates.

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Creative Steps

IT'S A GIFT

Win 1of 3 Orchard Toys bundles worth £30! • Get Christmas wrapped up early with this fantastic giveaway from Orchard Toys! Three Creative Steps readers will win this festive bundle BURSTING with Christmas fun! Orchard Toys games, jigsaw puzzles and activity books are the perfect Christmas gift or stocking filler for that special person from age 18 months!

The Creation Station • The Creation Station help unleash the wonder within, through fun and educational arts and crafts, classes, parties, events and products. As a multi-award-winning, five-star rated company, they inspire over 14,500 children and families every week with creative arts and crafts experiences across the UK. Creating journeys of discovery, exploration and development to unlock ideas through fun, hands-on activities, here are a few creative ideas, taken from the www.thecreationstation.co.uk website.

How to explore numbers in a fun way, every day! • Junaid Mubeen, mathematician turned educator, author of ‘Mathematical Intelligence: What we have that machines don’t’, and expert advisor to non-profit children’s free online game, Teach Your Monster Number Skills: www.teachyourmonster.org/numberskills

Fall Fun

Festive Decorations • Take some simple cardboard kitchen roll tubes, cut them into sections and let little imaginations transform them into dazzling festive decorations!

Halloween Peg Bat

Nursery Rhyme Week • These projects are designed to celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week which is held 13th-17th November.

GHOST GARLAND

ROCKET FUEL! • Keep up energy levels this Bonfire Night with a warming bowl of veggie soup followed by a sweet breadstick sparkler!

SPARKLER POTS • Basic crafting supplies are all that’s needed to create a colourful indoor firework display.

TOFFEE APPLES • These wonderfully shiny toffee apples look almost good enough to eat! Great for displays or props for a Bonfire Night party.

READING CORNER • Great books for growing minds KEY: HB HARDBACK ★ PB PAPERBACK ★ BB BOARD BOOK

FELT STAR TREES

Bobble Hat Decorations

Winter Wonderland

Christmas String Stars • These pretty stars are easy to make from pipe cleaners and string.

Christmas Baubles • Cardboard fruit trays are ideal for making re-cycled decorations!

FOLDED PAPER Angels

Fingerprint Friends • Simple fingerprints are easily transformed into fun winter characters. Mount them onto patterned paper for a perfect Christmas card design.

DAZZLING DECORATIONS • Christmas wouldn’t be the same without some colourful decorations! We’ve put together four tried and tested ideas that are quick and simple for children to make and which are guaranteed to brighten up any room or Christmas tree!

SUPER QUESTERS Make a Windy-Day Pinwheel • It’s never been more important to learn and think about renewable energy sources, including biofuels, as included in the SuperQuesters STEM story The Case of the Great Energy Robbery. Exploring renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, is a great starting point for children to understand their importance and develop essential STEM skills.

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