Conker Pets - An Autumn Craft Activity

The Mini Mes have been gathering conkers every day on the way home from school. They generally get plonked in the front garden in the flower pots (or hidden in money boxes in their bedrooms like treasure until they turn green) but I started to wonder what else could be done with them. There is of course the traditional method of roasting them, threading a shoelace through the centre and smashing them in a game but I decided to opt for something a little more cute for some imaginative play....

Watch Bake Create - Insects

 

This week focuses on insects and we have:

Watched Antz
Baked Worm Covered Cupcakes
Created Butterfly Stone Pets
 

 

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Worm Covered Cupcakes

These delicious biscuit and sweet covered cupcakes are really simple to create and are ideal for themed parties and Halloween.

Ingredients

Cupcakes

2 eggs

4oz sugar

4oz self raising flour

4oz butter

1 tsp vanilla extract

Decoration
5 1/2oz butter
1lb 2oz icing sugar
45ml milk

Oreo biscuits

Worm sweets

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
• Combine all of the cupcake ingredients (butter, eggs, flour, sugar and vanilla) together in a bowl to create you cake mixture
• Divide the mixture equally between 12 cupcake cases in a cupcake baking tray
• Cook for around 12-15 minutes until risen and golden
• Allow to cool
• Create your icing by mixing together the icing sugar, butter (softened) and milk in a bowl
• Apply to the cakes
• Crumble up the Oreo biscuits and sprinkle over the icing to look like mud
• Add your sweet worms on top
• Scoff!

Butterfly Stone Pets

 

You can read more about our Stone Pets and how to make them just here:

http://www.theminimesandme.com/2013/06/stone-pets.html

 

  

Antz Movie



Ant worker, Z, has his heart set on Princess Bala and after swapping places with his soldier ant friend he finds himself on a wild adventure. He finally comes head to head with General Mandible who wants to liquidate the colony... will he save the day and his love?

 

 

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Next week the theme will be Owls.
 

 

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Matchbox Stone Pets

This craft activity is part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias®

 

I regularly come up with my own ideas on things to make and bake with the Mini Mes but when I need inspiration Pinterest is the perfect place to find it!

I've made Rock Pets and Egg Box Bugs before and with a love of the great outdoors as a family this Stone Pet idea, complete with home and inspired by RedTed Art, looked like a simple yet fun craft to make.

Having checked what was required, and after a short trip to ELC to stock up on materials, we made this rather cute butterfly.

What you will need:

 

Smooth stone (that will fit inside a matchbox)

Matchbox

Felt

Wobbly/sticker eyes

Glue

Pen

(You can add pom poms, glitter, sequins etc if you wish to decorate)

• Attach felt to the outside of the matchbox using glue to create a home for the pet. We used green felt cut into points to represent grass and brown felt to represent mud. Allow to dry.

 

• Add eyes to your stone using the glue and attach felt for other body parts if you wish. We made wings from 4 small pieces of pink felt and antennae using red felt. Allow to dry.
• Draw on a mouth

 

You can now store your pet in its new home!

This is a very quick and easy craft and ideal for pre-schoolers. We had great fun creating it and using it to play - we intend to make some other creatures too over the summer.
 
 

You can find lots of great craft ideas on Pinterest here: http://www.pinterest.com
 
You can view our photo album relating to this craft idea here: Google Album