Craft Projects for Kids

Craft Projects the Kids will Love

Upcycled City

What You Need

Empty, clean containers (milk bottles, juice cartons, shampoo bottles, etc) Bottle caps (4 per car) Stanley knife Craft glue Markers

Method

To create the cars, place your bottle on its side and draw on some windows. Get creative and draw in other elements like head lights, windscreen wipers and even eyes.

You can leave the windows as is, or get an adult to carefully cut out the windows using a knife.

Using craft glue, attach the bottle caps to your car to create wheels.

Let the glue dry properly before playing with your cool upcycled cars.

To make a skyscraper, draw doors, windows and whatever you like onto your carton using a marker.

Tip: You can also use an old cardboard box to create a garage for your upcycled cars, or even a doll house with an empty toilet roll for a chimney.

You can make little houses from juice poppers and rubbish bins from toothpaste lids... let your imagination run wild!

Paper Butterfly

What You Need

1 empty toilet paper roll Three different coloured paper sheets Pencil Glue Scissors Black marker

Method

Decide what colour the body of your paper butterfly is going to be (we used green). Cut a piece of paper that fits around the roll, then glue it around.

Decide what colour the wings will be (we used pink). Fold the coloured paper in half and using a pencil, draw the outline of one wing. To make this easier, draw a big letter B, with the flat side of it being on the fold.

Cut around the pencil outline, and unfold to create a beautiful pair of wings. Using the last coloured paper sheet (we used blue), cut out four circles (or whatever shapes you'd like) and glue them to the wings. Glue the wings to the butterfly’s body.

Lastly, using the same colour as the dots on the wings, cut out two antennae and glue them to the top of the butterfly’s head, inside the toilet paper roll. Using a marker, draw on a smiling face, and you’re done.

Tip: You can decorate your butterfly’s wings with buttons and glitter.

Mary MacKillop Childcare NQ - The Story so Far

Childcare across the Diocese of Townsville, which covers 434,000sqkm and stretches from Halifax in the North to Proserpine in the South, Mount Isa in the West and Palm Island to the East has taken a huge leap in 2020.

All early learning centres, formally St Mary MacKillop Early Learning Centres, Catholic Kindergartens and Outside School Hours Care centres which are based within many Catholic Schools are now managed by a new Catholic agency called Mary MacKillop Childcare North Queensland (MMCNQ).

The Catholic Church has had a long history with childcare. Schools have been operating Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) since the 1990s. In 2004 some parishes began offering early learning centres which became St Mary MacKillop Early Learning Centres.

In 2010, the first of a series of on-school-site Kindergartens commenced delivering early childhood education. All of these services were managed by Townsville Catholic Education at the request of Bishop Michael Putney.

Catholic childcare has now grown to become a substantial, though dispersed, diocesan work with six early learning centres, nine kindergartens and 14 OSHCs.

MMCNQ now joins other vital ministries of the Diocese including Catholic Education, Centacare, Saints Catholic College and Parishes.

Interim Executive Director Ms Alana Crouch said she was excited by the opportunity to be involved and continue the outstanding delivery of care to the families across the Diocese of Townsville. “MMCNQ will be focused solely on the high-quality provision of childcare services to families all under the one agency banner.”

For more information email childcare@mmcnq.catholic.org.au