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.

FIGHTING FOR PRINCIPLES

CORE SKILLS & SUBJECT GUIDE

Creative Steps

ITS A GIFT

Win 1of 3 Orchard Toys bundles worth over £30! • Orchard Toys are giving three Creative Steps readers the chance to win an exciting bundle! 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

pacey & Earlyarts • In this article we explore the meaning of creativity and how important it is for children’s holistic development.

Summer Fun for Little Ones! • Keep boredom at bay this summer with these fun activities for Under Fives!

Father's Day Mechanical Print Cards • Nuts, bolts and toy tyres are perfect for making mechanical prints!

Crab Claws

Summer Sun • Celebrate Summer by creating a colourful Sunflowers Bouquet

Sports Week • A selection of sports-themed projects to keep your little ones engaged.

Flutterby Butterfly • Make a butterfly with flapping wings as a puppet or to brighten up a plant pot.

READING CORNER

BUTTERFLY SOS • Over recent years, the number of butterflies in our countryside and gardens has declined. This decrease is due to pollution, people using pesticides on crops and other plants, and more and more of the countryside being built on. If we want to keep our environment healthy, we need to do something to save the butterflies.

Oranges & Lemons • A selection of fruit themed crafts for Healthy Eating Week (13th-17th June 2022).

Folded Sea Creatures • Make some colourful 3D sea creatures from cardboard plates to help celebrate World Oceans Day on June 8th.

3D SEAHORSE • Splash into the blue sea and have fun creating a seahorse swimming through the waves and include in your discussions about World Oceans Day on June 8th.

World's Best Dad • This article has been designed to celebrate Father’s Day which takes place on 19th June 2022.

PAPER PLATE DINOSAURS

Bee Happy!

Beach Life • A series of projects inspired by a trip to the beach

POM-POM LLAMAS

READING CORNER

PORTHOLE PICTURES • Create an underwater world in a window!

VIKING VOYAGE • Sail across a stormy sea in a Viking longship.

TIN CAN CRAFTS • A selection of four upcycling projects which make use of old tin cans

Seaside Donkeys

3D Fish

Pirates Ahoy! • Avast me hearties! Test your model making by constructing your own butter dish Pirate Ship.

Pompom Flamingo • Make a flock of fluffy flamingos as summer decorations!

READING CORNER

4 Ways with..... plastic containers • Take a simple item and with a little creative inspiration, we’ll help you turn it into four exciting projects!

TEMPLATES