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By Wendy Blume

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CRAF Tfor non-crafty parents!Printables for instant craft & educational fun

Boredom busters for kids aged 3-6.

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Pencils

Sticky tape

G lue

Scissors

C olouring items like textas, pencils, crayons and paint

Craft materials like paper, glitter, string, and ribbon

Bored children wil l be a thing of the past with 85 printable pages of projects designed to nourish their creativity, provide entertainment and help them learn basic skil ls. Some projects wil l keep them occupied long enough for you to get essential tasks done. Others provide opportunities for you to join in and bond with your gorgeous, imaginative kids in a fun and positive way. Enjoy!

Instant creativity awaits!

Flat pack town 4Low-fi laptop 7Pretty col lage birdie 10Hairdresser dood les 12Loo rol l snake 14Spaceship dashboard 16Loo rol l dol ls 18Monster dood le 20Personalised bookmarks 22Cake col lage & colouring 24Fold-a-car 26Fairy mobile 28C olour-by-pixels 31Fold-a-robot 33Draw a self-portrait 35Astronaut col lage & colouring 37Shoebox dol l house 39Finger puppet soccer 42DIY christmas tree 47Loo rol l baby Jesus 49Loo rol l Christmas fairy 52Make a snowf lake 54

What’s on my plate? 56 I love to eat healthy food! 58Morning tea maze 60Vegie patch colouring 62Make your own cookbook 64Fresh food shopping list 66Fruit garden colouring 68Fil l the fruit bowl 70

Basic shapes 72More fun with shapes 74Tracing lines 78The colour wheel 81Memory game 83Basic counting 85C ounting 1-10 89What’s different? 92Alphabet pages 97Lettering practice 102

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Why?Create a scene for imaginative play and introduce the

kids to the idea of 2D and 3D shapes.

Instructions1. Colour the scene, people and houses.

2. Cut out around the black lines. Fold on the dotted

lines and secure your houses with glue or sticky tape.

3. Play!

More funPrint lots of houses to create whole neighbourhoods.

Add in some cars from page 26.

Flat pack town

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You’l l also need a card board box. The bigger the better!

Why?Create an instant imaginary play opportunity.

Instructions1. Stick onto a box.

2. Colour if you like (this is optional!)

More funAdd any kind of toy knobs, or keys. Plastic bottle lids

can be stuck on for extra button power!

Spaceship dashboard

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You wil l also need one toilet rol l or a 10cm piece of card board tube.

Why?Ramp up the excitment by making most of your tree

decorations at home. Then recycle in January.

Instructions1. Print (do not scale or it won’t fit the loo roll).

2. Colour.

3. Cut around the shapes. Tape the fairy around the

tube and tape the wings onto her back.

More funStuff the top of your fairy with tinsel. Finish decorating

the tree with paper chains made from colour paper

and snowflakes from page 68.

Loo rol l Christmas fairy

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Why?This project helps the kids identify different fruit and

vegetables, practise their basic counting skills and

enjoy a bit of colouring in.

Instructions1. Discuss which ingredients are which.

2. Write down how many of each item you will need

to buy from the shops.

3. Colour in.

More funTake the list to the supermarket and get the kids to

identify the fruit. Show them how to choose good

produce and let them count out the correct number of

each one.

Fresh food shopping list

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Why?Leading on from the previous project, this time we use

the shapes to draw objects.

Instructions1. Trace the shapes. Draw extra bits onto your shapes

to turn them into objects. Colour in.

More funThe third page of this project introduces more

advanced shapes.

More fun with shapes

square

triangle

circle

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P lease note that this font is the new ‘foundation’ style of lettering taught in NSW schools.

Why?Further your child’s understanding of letter writing and

alphabet sounds.

Instructions1. Discuss the picture and identify the start sound.

2. Practice tracing and writing letters.

3. Colour the pictures.

More funThis is the foundation of reading. There is SO much

more fun to come. Enjoy the amazing journey as your

kids learn to read!

Lettering practice

A A A A A A A

a a a a a a a a

Aaapple

B B B B B B B B

b b b b b b b b b

Bb boy