Crafts

Doing craft activities with your toddler or preschooler helps to develop fine motor skills, creativity, and early literacy as you work together, discuss what you are making , and act and play with your finished craft. Here you will find some of the crafts we have designed for our Storytime programs. Download the templates and print these at home, grab some scissors, sticky tape and glue, and get crafting! We have paired these with some matching picture books to inspire further reading and play.

Create and Craft - Christmas

So many Christmas recommendations and crafts - join us for some festive fun!

Create and Craft - Spring

Spring and gardening book recommendations from our Storytime team and a Create and Craft video with a spring craft for the City of Unley Spring Fling.

Create and Craft - Magic

Magic books and craft for this year's Book Week

Create and Craft - Father's Day

Father's Day book recommendations from our Storytime team and craft activity ideas with a father's day theme.

Pirates

Books and crafts about being a pirate

Create and Craft - Mother's Day

Books and craft for Mother's Day

Create and Craft - Australiana

Books and crafts about and exploring Australia.

Create and Craft - New baby

Books and craft for introducing a new baby into the family.

Create and Craft - On the farm

Books and craft for on the farm

Cooking with Karyn and Caitlin

Karyn and Caitlin cook up a storm. As part of our school holiday program this series of videos offers a chance for school aged children to cook along with our two star presenters.

Create and Craft - Shoes

Books and craft for shoes and how to tie your laces

Create and Craft - Love

Books and craft for all kinds of love.

Create and Craft - Underwater

Books and craft for under the sea, lakes, ponds and streams.

Create and Craft - Bears

Books and crafts about bears of all kinds.

Create and Craft - Easter

Books and crafts for Easter.

Create and Craft - Trees

Books and craft activities on the theme of trees

Create and Craft - ANZAC Day

Craft activities and resources for ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day

Birds

Downloadable craft template plus book recommendations for parents and educators

Create and Craft - Macca the Alpaca

Craft activities to go with the book Macca the Alpaca by Matt Cosgrove.

Hanging Peg Sloth

Perfect to make for someone special in your life.

Download the template(PDF, 1MB)

Wild About Dads
Text and illustrations © Philip Bunting 2020
Published by Hardie Grant Children's Publishing 2020

Scribble Monster

 "But who is this creature with terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws?"   Create your very own scribble monster. Get your pencils, crayons and textas and scribble a monster shape in the middle of a piece of paper. Use as many colours as you like. Use our template to cut out and stick on eyes, ears, and noses. Give your monster a name and a scary or silly power. 

Download the template(PDF, 392KB)

The Gruffalo
Text © Julia Donaldson 1999
Illustrations © Axel Scheffler 1999
Published by MacMillan Children's Books

Go Away, Big Green Monster
Text and illustrations © Ed Emberly 1992
Published by Little, Brown and Company 2005

Counting Carrots

Download the template(PDF, 392KB)   

Let's Count Goats!
Text by Mem Fox © 2010
Illustrations by Jan Thomas © 2010
Published by Beach Lane Books 2010

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
Copyright © 1999 by James Dean (for the character of Pete the cat)
Text copyright © Eric Litwin, 2012
Illustrations copyright © James Dean 2012
Published by HarperCollins

 Pop Up Birthday Card

Download the template(PDF, 405KB)

Bake a Rainbow Cake!
Text by Amirah Kassem © 2020
Illustrations by Elisa Chavarri © 2020
Published by Abrams Books 2020

Bunny Cutting Station

For practicing fine motor skills using scissors.

Download the template(PDF, 10KB)

The Terrible Plop
Text by Ursula Dubosarsky © 2012
Illustrations by Andrew Joyner © 2012
Published by Penguin Australia 2012