The return from holidays often brings mixed emotions for children: excitement, fatigue, and sometimes hesitation. As educators, we can harness this transitional moment by offering playful provocations: intentional activity setups that spark curiosity, re-energize routines, and invite children back into the joy of learning.

This quick art is easy and enables children to create their own fireworks with chalk. Children can create their own fireworks designs and colours to make their own unique fireworks display.

Celebrate Father's Day with this super simple craft activity with this paper plate necktie. Easy for babies and toddlers to create, fathers can wear their "unique" tie on Father's Day. Children can decorate, paint and create their very own special necktie for dad. A truly fun, simple and loving gift for dad! 

The Rainbow Collage Sorting Mats enable children to sort the different coloured objects into the correct coloured sorting mat. This is great for children learning their colours and to help children to identify objects of different colours in their everyday environment.

With this activity the children will be having pure fun as many of them would like to do this sticking activity. Moreover, this is a simple activity as it involves just peeling of the stickers and sticking them. By peeling stickers and sticking them children will be developing their fine motor skills and are also encouraged to think and imagine and present their creation using stickers. 

This colander activity is simple it’s an engaging activity and children get engrossed in it. This improves their fine motor skills and the children learn to use their action fingers in an efficient manner. Thus it also contributes to their pencil grasping skills. With the help of such activities children learn to get a static tripod grasp.

A fun activity for children to collage their name and get to know each other.

Editable paint that babies and toddlers can enjoy to use while painting.

Children will have fun painting with puffy paint which puffs up when it dries. 

A sweet flower bouquet full of a child's fingerprints that can be kept forever.

Materials Needed:

• Coloured paper.
• Acrylic paint – pink, red, purple, blue, yellow, etc.
• Green marker
• Ribbon
• Glue dots
• Scissors

What to do:

• Begin by making a square from the cardboard.
• Fold one corner up until it makes a triangle. Then trim away the excess paper.
• Unfold the triangle and place in front of you like a diamond. Fold one side over where it makes a point on the bottom. Then fold the other side, overlapping the first side, meeting at the point on the bottom.
• Fold the overlapped points back. Then fold into place to make sure it’s positioned correctly.

• Unfold the front flaps of the paper and begin making flowers.
• Simply dip a child's fingertip into each coloured paints and dab the paper with dots
• Let the flowers dry.
• Use the green marker to draw stems and leaves down from the flowers
• Finish the flower bouquet by cutting a strand of ribbon. Apply a glue dot to stick to the back of the paper and keep in place.

Hints and Tips:

• Use glitter paints
• Use child's drawings as bouquet wrapper
• Get the child to decorate the wrapping

Reference: 
Mother's Day Flower Bouquet, Our Kids Things