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.

NEW GOALS

CORE SKILLS & SUBJECT GUIDE • To help you select activities to suit your learning environment, each project in Creative Steps includes guidelines to the skills and subjects which will be enhanced by doing that activity.

Creative Steps

ITS A GIFT

Win 1of 3 Orchard Toys Bundles Worth over £40! • Orchard Toys are giving 3 Creative Steps readers the chance to win an exciting games and jigsaws bundle! There’s fun for all the family with a prehistoric board game and a 100-piece pirate-themed jigsaw, as well as an exciting literacy game and a collection of ROAR-some activity jigsaws! Orchard Toys games, jigsaws and colouring books offer the perfect balance of learning and fun for children from the age of 18 months.

the Creation Station

Miniature Bicycle • First established in 2015, the United Nations has declared June 3rd to be World Bicycle Day as a celebration of all things bike! The idea behind World Bicycle Day is to recognize the versatility and uniqueness of the bicycle, as well as its reliability and sustainability as a mode of transportation.

Big bang! Small hands… Big ideas! • Pete Moorhouse is an early years creative consultant and artist educator and is the UKs leading authority on woodwork in early years education. Here he offers us an insight to adding woodwork to your setting.

Ice Lolly Garland

FLiP-FLOP PiCTURES • Turn wearing flip-flops into an art form by creating these colourful creature pictures. This would make a great summer outdoor painting activity for a group of children.

JUMPING JELLYFISH • Crinkly paper cake cases are perfect for making jellyfish with layered colours and wiggly tentacles!

Milky the whale! LEARNING ZONES:Expressive Arts & Design ★ Understanding the World ★ Recycling • Transform a plastic milk carton into a model whale! This can be used to discuss World Oceans Day, held every year on 8th June to raise awareness of the vital importance of our oceans and the role they play in sustaining a healthy planet.

Jellyfish Puppets • Make these fun jelly fish puppets and stage an underwater themed show!

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BEATRIX POTTER • These projects have been written to mark the anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birthday on 28th July.

READING CORNER • Great books for growing minds

DEAR DADDY • These projects have been designed for Father’s Day on 20th June 2021.

Recycled Window Box • Make a colourful flower display using recycled materials.

Cheesebox Tortoises

Healthy Eating Week • These projects have been written to mark Healthy Eating Week (14th-18th June 2021).

Fingerprint Dandelions

TACTILE TEXTILES: Sensory Birds

The Little Book of Bees

Creepy Crawly Crafts • These projects have been written to mark National Insect Week (21st-27th June 2021).

Bottle Butterflies

ANGLO-SAXON ORHAHHEHT • Anglo-Saxon jewellery and ornaments were made from precious metals, glass and gems. Make your own design inspired by craft from the early middle ages.

TIME FOR TEA! • These buttermilk scones...