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Colour water<\/strong> – Colour children’s baths or bubbles with a couple of splashes of food dye.<\/p>\n

Paint with cars<\/strong> – A couple of different colours of poster paint, some backing paper and small cars are great for some therapeutic painting with wheels.<\/p>\n

Make your own Wimmer Ferguson mobile<\/strong> \u2013 You will need a hanger, string, squares of card and a thick marker pen. Draw some stark black images\/designs in the style of Wimmer Ferguson onto the squares. Hole punch the cards, thread through string and attach to hanger. Job done.<\/p>\n

Tag Blanket<\/strong> \u2013 Don’t buy one make your own. Your can get fun ribbon from a craft shop. Cut out two squares of fleece. Hem, then join together with your ribbon tags folded out.<\/p>\n

Baby faces posters<\/strong> \u2013 Tiny babies love looking at photographs of faces. You will be inundated with baby marketing materials. Cut out the faces of babies in the catalogues and stick onto a piece of A4 paper and onto the wall for your baby to look at.<\/p>\n

Dribble Bib<\/strong> \u2013 If your baby is teething, then they are likely to be dribbling like a geriatric bulldog. Find some funky fabric and make a dribble bib. Can be made a simply as\u00a0 cutting out a square, folding into a triangle, over locking the edges and popping some Velcro on the outside corners.<\/p>\n

Stop frame animation<\/strong> \u2013 a simple thing to do with a tech savvy five-year-old. Take some photographs of a toy in different positions on the same spot, pop them on the computer and run through a photograph preview programme.<\/p>\n

Baby and Toddler Record Book<\/strong> – If maternity leave is starting to slow a little, try making your own baby and toddler record book. Don’t forget the essential pages shop ones miss out: My first broken nose and My first day at the walk-in centre.<\/p>\n

Simple Teddies<\/strong> \u2013 So easy to make. Cut out the template of a bear. Draw around the template onto the back of a folded piece of fabric. Cut out teddy shape. Sew around and stuff with paper. Job done.<\/p>\n

Fun with face paints<\/strong> \u2013 Face paints are not expensive to buy and you can add to you collection of colours monthly. Take turns to paint faces on a wet Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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