With Spring on our door steps and Mothers Day fast approaching I am so drawn to the beautiful Spring flowers that are providing us with some much loved (and missed), bright colours - Daffodils in particular are my favourite! We have been busy creating some super cute Salt Dough Daffodil Keepsakes and we can't wait to share them with you!

While you are here be sure to check out our Daffodil Handprint Art we did last year too! It's just beautiful and it's what inspired us to make these keepsakes!

You can view our Handprint Keepsake ornament here.














The next big celebration was Easter so we made some egg shaped keepsakes:

I really loved these as the pastle colours looked so beautiful together!

This was our Egg Handprint plaque ornament.



We also made these heart thumbprint keepsakes. Great to hang up on the wall or your Easter Trees. - Great decorations for childminders, teachers who have a few children in their care!

You can add magnets to the back of them too and pop them on your fridge!

You can see more on our Thumb Print Egg Keepsakes here.








Next celebration we made Saltdough Keepsakes for was Halloween:



We combined both hand prints and foot prints with this one!

Halloween Pumpkin Keepsake.











Using cookie cutters we created smaller pumpkins and made some heart print thumb prints.

Thumb Print Magnets.








.........and our most recent keepsakes have been for Christmas:



These were such great fun to make, so colourful and look lovely hanging on the tree!!

I gift wrapped them up lovely and gave them to friends and family.

You can see details on how we made these and see photos of our gift wrapping by clicking below:

Fingerprint Christmas Tree Ornaments.








Now on to our favourite one.....

Snowman Ornament Keepsake

We have recently planted our Sunflower seeds and Little N checks each day to see if there is any sign of them sprouting above the soil yet. It wont be long now and then we get to plant them out in the garden and our Sunflower competition begins - Who can grow the biggest Sunflower.

The sun has been out and we have been enjoying lots of time in the garden, but the good old British weather means we have gone from applying the factor 50 and getting to swimming pools out in the garden to needing our wellies and umbrellas!

I just love all the pretty, pastel colours that Easter brings! Spring has arrived after a cold Winter. The nights are slowly drawing out, the tulips, daffodils, snowdrops and crocuses add a welcoming colour to the great outdoors and the Easter bunny brings us lots of chocolate!!!

We have been busy creating some Saltdough Easter Keepsakes that make perfect, bright and colourful decorations to keep for years to come!

We love our keepsakes here at Learning and Exploring Through Play and we have enjoyed making a few of them over the last year. Today we are here to share a wonderful keepsake that is great for Autumn.

You may have seen a recent post of ours where we created some Easter Keepsake Decorations. We love pastel colours and there is plenty of that around during Easter!

After a cold, gloomy winter the great outdoors is starting to wake up. The buds are plentiful, the baby animals are being born and if you are lucky hopefully the weather is now on the turn.

We have been busy making some keepsakes over the last week or so. Did you see the large foot print and hand print keepsake we shared with you yesterday? If you missed it you can see it here. In addition to the large keepsake we have also created some adorable thumb print pumpkin magnets.