The fun is on at Kew this Easter with lots of activities for families. All week you can admire the chocolate sculptures on display and take part in the chocolate workshops where kids will learn …

It’s been a while since I transformed a cereal box into something useful and pretty to look at. Yesterday morning while I was tidying up after breakfast I suddenly got an idea for an Easter …

Last week I said I will be making all my Easter gift boxes this year so I started with my first one by turning a normal face cream box into a cute Easter bunny box. …

I love wooden blocks so for our weekly craft this week we have made a six sided Christmas puzzle with six cubes. Instead of buying the already made cubes ready to decorate I bought a …

The theme for the Friday Carnival over at Notes From Home this week is Christmas so I thought to share the alphabet poem we made using only Christmas words, which we then illustrated by painting the tree …

Twas the Night Before Christmas, the classic poem by Clement Clarke Moore is available on iTunes thanks to an interactive iPhone app brought to us by Once Upon An App. You can listen to the …

Our Monday craft this week is a hanging Christmas decoration made of very thin strips of bolster wood consisting of a star, a ball and two pinecones tied in a bow. I wanted something simple …

Our craft this week is a file container to store the messages we write for every day in December. You can read the post about how we are using last year’s advent calendar this …

The theme for the Friday Carnival over at Notes from Home this week is Advent, so I thought it would the perfect opportunity to bring up the lovely advent calendar I made last year. To …

My son was so excited last year when he received a video message from Santa himself. What made it even more special was that Santa not only knew his name and where he lived, but …

At the weekend we have been busy making our Nativity with recycled items and air dry clay. It is a little early, but we’ll be away for a week at the beginning of December so …

Our first Christmas decoration of the year is a candle holder made out of air dry clay. I am a huge fan of air dry clay and I have used it a lot in the …