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.

A FAIR START FOR ALL

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

IT’S A GIFT

Win 1of 3 Orchard Toys Bundles Worth £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 an exciting counting and colour game, as well as a 26 piece jigsaw which includes a fun learning guide, PLUS a giant poster! Orchard Toys games, jigsaws and colouring books offer the perfect balance of learning and fun for children from the age of 18 months.

Sock Snowmen • These ‘no sew’ snowmen make a fun Christmas decoration!

GALAXY PAINTING

Take a Line for a Walk • A great open-ended craft activity to help your kids explore colours, textures and different mediums. Use paints, pens, markers or crayons.

Colour Therapy • Colour is one of the first concepts we learn, and we use colour to convey emotion, messages and meaning. Colour can affect mood and behaviour in a child. While everyone may benefit from developing their choice of colour, some children may be more sensitive to colour, these might include children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Each child will have their own colour preferences, and in some cases, these choices will be very strongly felt and expressed. This can lead to distress if colour preferences are not acknowledged and respected. Colour Therapy activities can really help identify preferences and emotions, especially in children who are pre-verbal or struggle with communication.

Hey Diddle Diddle • A selection of projects for preschoolers, written to mark World Nursery Rhyme Week (15th-19th November 2021).

Say Hello! • This activity is a fun way for children to make friends in a new play setting or at the beginning of term.

LEAF DECORATIONS • Combine leaves & cookie cutters for a fun art project

Leaf Hedgehogs • Inspired by the falling autumn leaves, create these colourful hedgehogs.

POPPY DAY

READING CORNER • Great books for growing minds

Christmas Fun & Games • A selection of Christmas themed games & activities for you to enjoy this festive period.

FUN FESTIVE CARDS • Make these fun festive Christmas cards to send loved ones a seasonal greeting!

COLOURFUL CHRISTMAS TREES

'T is the Season • A selection of fun Christmas cards for you to make and give to loved ones.

Rocking Reindeer

CHRISTMAS HANGERS

mindfulness & wellbeing • These projects have been designed to mark World Mental Health Day on 10th October 2021. They are focused on mindfulness and offer ideas to enhance wellbeing and positivity.

Autumnal Leaf Lollipop Frame • Make a leaf frame in rich autumnal colours made from lollipop sticks and give as a gift to celebrate the season!

Recycled Hedgehogs • Save your old containers and cups for making these colourful hedgehogs!

Everyday Maths • These projects have been designed to mark Maths Week England (starting 8th...