International Pirate Day - 19th September 2011

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When I ran my toddler group I liked to have ‘themed’ days, where the leaders, children, parents or carers could dress up as that theme, and the crafts and story would also be around the same theme.

As it’s International Pirate day you could have your own Pirate day in your group. Below are a couple of easy craft ideas for you to do within your groups.

Make a pirate hat

http://www.kidscraftweekly.com/printables/pirate_hat.pdf

Pirates - print and colour

Click on the link and you can print off a variety of pirate-themed colouring sheets to use in your group.

http://www.netmums.com/things/Pirates_Pictures_to_print_and_colour_in.2596/

What you will need:

Colouring pens/pencils

Threading Treasure

This is a very simple craft.

What you will need:

Ball of string
Selection of different buttons
Uncooked pasta tubes
Foil milk tops
Cut up cardboard tubes

Thread all the different above items onto your piece of string. To make the treasure a lot more colourful, you could paint and glitter the cardboard tubes, and even colour the pasta with food colouring.

Last Updated 02 August 2011

Children should be adequately supervised during all craft activities. Use of these ideas is at the discretion of the group leaders. Care for the Family cannot be held responsible for any injury or damage which might result from their use.

Share your craft and activity ideas

We would love to receive any craft or activity ideas that you have used successfully in a parent and toddler group. Please send them to us at Playtime, Care for the Family, Garth House, FREEPOST (CF4636), Cardiff CF15 7GZ or email playtime@engagetoday.org.uk

Please include simple instructions along with either a digital photo (jpeg if possible) or a completed item.

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