Many free hand embroidery patterns

This and many more beautiful patterns are available at Imaginesque.

happy embroidering

Watermelon template for bunting

Turn these great free templates into bunting

or 3D fruit

from the ab fab minieco

Snake Finger puppets to make

Download these cool snake puppets

from Mr Printables

Printable Easter Bags

Great idea for an easter gift bag. 

You can print these off and construct the bags yourself

but maybe you have plain bags the kids can decorate with easter stickers.

Thank you to More Style Than Cash for this great idea.

Collection of Easter Templates

 

Chicks, bunnies, baskets, egg shapes, carrots...

 

over 25 easter templates and colouring in sheets

 

at early play

Vintage Easter basket template

Vintage Image Craft

This Easter Bunny Basket is a simple - but elegant - paper craft. The basket is an origami-style box. On both sides, a vintage image Easter Bunny guards his treasure and his ears loop up to form the basket handles. Free vintage template is included.

St. Patrick’s Day Printables for you

Thanks Lolli for this great download:

 

Cut them out and use them as labels to decorate lunch bags, treats, cups on a party table, etc. Or use them to make your own DIY St.Patrick’s Day cards.

 

From Better in Bulk.

Lollipop Lily

Here is a free valentine download for you

from Skip to My Lou

Download the files, cut and assemble.

The centre is a lollipop!

Halloween Templates

Spider and cobweb stencils for cakes, spooky paper bats, Haunted Houses, Skull & Crossbones and more fun  Halloween craft templates:

Read more: Halloween Templates - Printable Halloween Stencils and Templates - Country Living

Halloween Bag Toppers

Download

Smitten Blog Designs

Free Vintage Sewing Box Graphic

Vintage sewing box label by Kerryanne English

of Shabby Art Boutique.

Download

Flutterbies

We used as many different coloured cardboards as we could find. The children then glued whatever wings they chose onto the butterfly body and decorated it with pencils, stickers and glitter.

 TODAY AT PLAY

Marbelized eggs

Marbelizing at Martha Stewart

Paper Angel

Christmas trees

From The small object archive

These little trees are made from material but we will try them in cardboard and possibly felt - if I can just find that green felt I put aside! The template is easy peasy

Egg & duck templates

QUACK, quack, quack...mother duck

 

baby duck

duck egg

Now I am sure I can find something to do with these.

Feel free to copy and use these templates.

I would love to see what you make with them - a little felt duck? a story about the 5 little ducks? a colouring sheet?

Let me know and I will post and link here.

Make a mask

Very simple making instructions are in each free pdf.

From Mr Printables.com

Frog puppet from paper plates

Saw this at Ziggity Zoom.com.

I am going to adapt it tomorrow and make it without the staples.