Recipes for Creativity
Just like your 'go to' cooking recipes, we feature ingredient lists and instructions for making many of the craft materials commonly found in early learning programs. Organised for simplicity and ease these ingredients are commonly accessible - we hope you'll return to these again and again!

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Help Me Grow Flower Pots
Create a beautiful take-home activity for Mother's Day that combines creativity, learning, and love.
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Bead Bunny
Support fine motor development and seasonal creativity with our Bead Bunny Activity — a fun and purposeful way to engage little hands!
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Pattern Eggs
Using open-ended resources such as our Wooden Treasures alongside simple materials like cardboard, this activity invites children to explore patterns, develop fine motor skills, and engage in sorting experiences.
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Valentine's STEM Hearts
A thoughtfully crafted play area turns into a vibrant canvas where tiny hearts can express their love for play and creativity in this STEM based Absorbing Love activity.
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Goop Recipe
Goop is a creative mess that appears to be a liquid and a solid at the same time. Children can have fun and benefit from a playful science lesson while learning.
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Playdough Recipe
There is something very therapeutic about playing with play-dough. Whilst improving fine motor skills, building imagination, fostering co-operative play, even helping with maths skills.
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Rainbow Rice
Easy peasey Rainbow Rice - ideal for setting up in a tray for exploration and a wonderful sensory experience. Add cups, funnels or spoons to mix and measure - or cars and small figurines for sensory play with a twist!
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Salt Dough Recipe
With just 3 ingredients salt dough is very easy to make and is ideal for creating air dried ornaments with shape cutters. They can be sealed and painted with your own unique designs to share as gifts or as a keepsake.
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Salt Glitter Recipe
Salt Glitter is an eco friendly alternative that is less sparkly, but much kinder to the planet. Any unused glitter can easily be stored in a salt shaker.
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Slime Recipe
Combining Lux Flakes with food dye and warm water, create oozy goozy fun that can last for hours. An ideal activity for both relaxation that also promotes mindfulness.
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Soap Crayons
Non toxic and easy to clean these Soap Crayons are a fun way to create art on wet surfaces.
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