Golden Time ideas and activities - seasonal

Valentine's Day

3 Hearts card - paper cut for 6yrs+

Card heart gift box - age 8-11

Fabric Valentine Card - uses starch resist technique

Felt Hearts Valentine Card KS1 and 2

Heart Pendant - salt dough suitable for very little ones

Heart picture frame - age 8-11 recycle

Heart shaped clay box - slab technique upper KS2

Potato print card - age 2-5yrs

Simple Quilling Card KS1 and 2

Valentine gift box - Upper KS2

Valentine's Paper weaving card - more fun with paper weaving skills

Mother's Day & Father's Day

Cards

Button card - sew on buttons, draw on petals & leaves age 6-9

Cup Cake card - another pop up card

Fan card - age 6-8

Flower in a pot - 3d paper sculpture picture for KS2

Funky flower card- age 6-9

Garden memo - ready to print out and decorate

Gift box card - A box and a card all in one, age 9-11

I sew love you - sew your message on the card age 7-11

Mother's Day kitchen window card

Origami boat card - simple to make

Origami shirt card - for smart dads

Paper roses - small bunch of roses to decorate a card-KS2

Pop Up card - surprise mum with a pop up bouquet of flowers, KS2

Teapot card - age 5-8

zigzag card- age 6-9, made for Dad

Gifts to make

Bunch of paper flowers - KS2 activity

Candle Cake - KS2, a candle that looks like a cake!

Cd storage box - recycle jeans & make a gift

Chocolate truffles - more calories!

Clay egg cup - a gift for foundation stage

Clay letter rack - upper KS2

Denim bag - handy for pegs 11+

Knitted coaster - a present for mum or dad KS2

Needle case- 4-7 & 7-11 recycle fabric to make this simple gift

Notebook- recycle card & paper upper KS2 *NEW March 2010

Paper daisies - no need to water, KS2

Peg magnet note holder - a great gift for Mother’s Day

Peppermint creams - a sweet treat, all key stages

Pincushion - sew Mum a little gift disguised as a cake, KS2

Plastic gift box - Recycled box to put the sweets in for Foundation stage

Quilling necklace - design your own using simple techniques age 5-11

Round gift box - something to present the sweets in KS2

Shopping list -ready to print out and decorate

Silver bucket- gift holder, foundation stage

Tea Bag in a bag- last minute idea- foundation stage

National Days

The Cork Leprechaun -Upper KS2, a little man with a crock of gold (Ireland)

Origami rose - age 9-11, wear this on St. George's day (England)

Daffodil brooch - 7+ (Wales)

St. George pop up picture - age 9-11

Harvest

Traditional style corn dolls - age 4yrs+

Chinese New Year

Chinese lantern - age 4-8yrs

Lucky money envelope - age 5-8yrs

Pagoda paper cut picture

Tiger paper cut picture - age 7-11yrs, template to print out

Tiger model - age 2-5yrs

Easter

Cards

Chick in egg cup card -KS1, lower KS2

Chick in a meadow card - KS1, lower KS2

Daffodil card - egg box art 3+

Eggs in a basket card-paper weaving KS2

Egg pop-up card - a double pop-up for KS2

Egg surprise card -KS1, lower KS2

Hatching chick card - KS1, lower KS2

Largest to smallest egg card -KS1, lower KS2*NEW March 2010

Paper weaving egg - card for KS2

Activities & worksheets

Cloze procedures - the last supper, the trial of Jesus, crucifixion KS2

Colour the egg - factors of 20,30,40,50

Colour the eggs - number bonds to 20,

Count the shapes on the Easter Egg - KS1

Easter Crossword, Easter Crossword 2 - test their knowledge of the bible story, upper KS2

Easter Egg hunt - co-ordinates game

Easter story persuasive writing - upper KS2*NEW March 2010

Easter Wordsearch - KS2

Egg shape sort - a worksheet for KS1

Egg to colour - add and subtract to 10

Holy week timeline - comprehension activity for 6-11yr olds *NEW March 2010

Lenten Calendar - a diary of promises, PSHE age 6-9

Match eggs and colour - visual discrimination sheet for 4-6year olds

Number pattern eggs - find numbers in the pattern of 2,5 and 10 for KS1 & lower KS2

Spring writing paper

Things to make

3d Daffodil picture -upper KS1 and 2

Bird in a nest picture - use found materials and simple weaving KS1 & lower KS2

Chick gift box - a fun clay gift box

Chick on a plate - weaving activity for KS2

Chocolate nests - 3 years and up

Cress head - Cute little egg character 3+

Daffodil model - paper sculpture 9-11

Decorated egg shell - KS1 & 2

Easter basket - egg box weaving KS1

Easter basket - a weaving activity for KS2

Easter bonnet - age 4-6

Easter Biscuits- more cooking fun

Egg bods -a little person from an egg

Egg box - egg shaped gift box KS2

Eggs in basket - pop up picture age 9-11

Fabergé Eggs - glittering treasures 4yrs+

Felt egg cosy - bunny or chick to sew KS2

Finger Painted Spring Picture - 3+

Fluffy chick - cute little pompom chick

Hanging egg decorations - 3d eggs to hang on a Spring branch, age 5-7yrs

Knitted egg cosy - upper KS2

Miniature garden - age 5-11

Origami tulip - upper KS2

Pancake recipe

Pancake pictures - sequencing pictures

Printed egg card- from 3-8 years

Quilled Daffodil - quilling for 6-11yr olds

Speckled eggs in nest - Spring time picture

Woolly Easter bunny - KS2

Games

Egg puzzle - print out, cut in half, hunt for missing piece age3+

Egg lotto - visual discrimination age 3-6

Easter activities

Hallowe'en & Bonfire night

Bonfire wordsearch KS2

Bonfire & firework dance - P.E, Music Art, Literacy, KS1 & lower KS2

Cinder toffee - recipe

Egg box skeleton a challenge for yr 6+

Firework model- KS1 & 2

Firework stencil - make one huge display

Gunpowder plot crossword - KS2

Gunpowder plot quiz - KS2, listening skills

Haunted castle - 3d picture lower KS2

Marbled paper - night time picture 5+

Quilling firework picture - age 6+

Skull - a little paper model KS1

Spell book -a little book for spells - KS2

Spooky 3d picture - imaginative fun for KS2

Writing paper - pumpkin & witch border - wide lined landscape, lined portrait, unlined portrait

Witch - a model to make KS2

Wizard - a model for KS2