Knights and Fairies ideas for OSHC
24 DIY activities for a knights and fairies at before and after school care or vacation care, usually run around Summer or Autumn. Pick and mix, or build a balanced day in one click.
Box Castle Building
Children build castles from boxes and tubes, adding towers, drawbridges and flags.
Medieval Times · Knights and Fairies · Cardboard Box Day +2Cardboard Castle Building
Children build castles with turrets, walls and working drawbridges from boxes, tubes and string.
Medieval Times · Knights and Fairies · Mythical Creatures +3Castles, Dragons and Stories
Children build cardboard castles and make sock dragon puppets, then stage their own adventure story for an audience.
Fairy Tale Day · Crazy Hat Day · Knights and Fairies +1Crowns and Character Ears
Children decorate card crowns or headband ears with gems and glitter to wear for the rest of the day.
Birthday for Everyone Day · Knights and Fairies · Fairy Tale Day +2Decorated Birthday Crowns
Younger children decorate card crowns with gems and stickers so everyone can feel like the birthday star.
Medieval Times · Knights and Fairies · Time Travellers Day +1Design a Coat of Arms
Children learn how shields showed who people were in medieval times, then design their own coat of arms with symbols that represent them.
Knights and Fairies · Mythical Creatures · Medieval Times +3Egg Carton Dragons
Children paint egg carton strips and add wings and tails to make friendly dragons.
Enchanted Forest · Knights and Fairies · Tiny Things Day +2Fairy Door Making
Children paint and decorate tiny doors made from pop sticks to place at the base of trees or in the garden.
Knights and Fairies · Fairy Tale Day · Enchanted Forest +2Fairy Flower Crowns
Children decorate card crowns with paper and real flowers for fairy-tale dress-up.
Music Festival Day · Spring Fair · Fairy Tale Day +3Flower Crowns
Children twist pipe cleaners and add fresh or paper flowers to make festival flower crowns.
Superhero Day · Knights and Fairies · Fairy Tale Day +2Heroes and Fairies Dress-Up Day
Younger children come dressed as heroes or fairies and spend the day designing capes and wands, then celebrate with a parade.
Knights and Fairies · Medieval Times · Gladiator Day +1Hobby Horse Joust
Children ride hobby horses and gently aim pool noodles at a target, a safe take on medieval jousting.
Knights and Fairies · Medieval Times · Dramatic Play Day +1Knight Helmets
Children make knight helmets from card and foil to wear in medieval play.
Wizard School Day · Magic Day · Fairy Tale Day +3Magic Wand Making
Children decorate chopsticks or twigs with glue, beads and paint to create their own magic wands.
Gardening Day · Enchanted Forest · Fairy Tale Day +3Mini Fairy Garden
Children design a tiny fairy garden in a pot using moss, pebbles and small natural or recycled bits.
Gladiator Day · Medieval Times · Knights and Fairies +2Pool Noodle Duel
Children balance on a low beam and try to gently tap each other off-balance with soft pool noodles.
Space Explorers · Science and Space · Knights and FairiesPool Noodle Space Swords
Children decorate pool noodle sections as glowing space swords, then use them for gentle choreographed duels and training moves.
Pirate Day · Knights and Fairies · Medieval Times +2Pool Noodle Sword Duels
Children fence safely with halved pool noodles inside a chalk circle, scoring for a tap below the shoulders. Active, rule-based play.
Medieval Times · Science Week · Science Day +3Pop Stick Catapults
Children build simple catapults from pop sticks, rubber bands and plastic spoons, then test and improve how far they can launch a soft missile.
Medieval Times · Knights and Fairies · Vikings Day +2Royal Feast Without Cutlery
Children set up a royal banquet hall and enjoy a shared feast of finger food, eating the medieval way without cutlery.
Beach Day · Summer Holidays · Knights and Fairies +2Sandpit Castle Contest
Children build their best sandcastles in the sandpit, using buckets, moats and decorations in a friendly building contest.
Mythical Creatures · Dinosaur & Unicorn Day · Knights and Fairies +2Unicorn Horns and Dragon Wings
Children make wearable unicorn horns and dragon wings from card and glitter, then use them in imaginative play.
Vikings Day · Medieval Times · Knights and Fairies +1Viking Paper Plate Shields
Children design and paint round Viking-style shields on paper plates, adding a card handle so they can hold them up.
Enchanted Forest · Wizard School Day · Magic Day +2Woodland Wands
Children collect fallen sticks and wrap them with wool, ribbon and leaves to create their own magic wands.