Fabric upcycle: make a chicken door stop
September 11, 2014 – 5:55 am | No Comment

To make this chicken door stop I used the template kindly offered by Bake and Sew. I adjusted the sizes in mine to make it a little larger by adding 4 cm on each …

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Monday crafts: how to make a double-decker bus out of shoeboxes
January 17, 2011 – 4:22 am | 8 Comments
Monday crafts: how to make a double-decker bus out of shoeboxes

Our craft today features yet another two shoeboxes of the same size that have been turned into a double-decker bus. To make your own you need two shoeboxes – the narrow type all in one …

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Monday crafts: how to make a fun bookshelf out of cardboard boxes
January 10, 2011 – 6:49 am | 6 Comments
Monday crafts: how to make a fun bookshelf out of cardboard boxes

We have a lot of boxes lined up waiting for a second chance in this world so I hope you like cardboard crafts as much as we do because we have a few more coming. …

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Learn through play: how to turn a box into a toy house
January 4, 2011 – 9:07 am | 2 Comments
Learn through play: how to turn a box into a toy house

Small boxes that are not good for storage purposes are still good for something. We think they are perfect for junk play so today I bring you a lovely house we made out of a …

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Monday crafts: how to turn a shoebox into a fun storage box
January 3, 2011 – 7:54 am | 2 Comments
Monday crafts: how to turn a shoebox into a fun storage box

With the holidays just gone the amount of stuff lying around my son’s bedroom has multiplied so we are in need of extra storage. Thankfully we have a lot of boxes that can rise …

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Recycled crafts: make a party banner out of used wrapping paper
December 29, 2010 – 8:50 am | One Comment
Recycled crafts: make a party banner out of used wrapping paper

This year the build up to Christmas was as exciting as always. So many creative ideas and work went into the lead up to one single day and when Christmas Day did come we tore …

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Monday crafts: Christmas puzzle blocks
December 20, 2010 – 4:26 am | One Comment
Monday crafts: Christmas puzzle blocks

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 …

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A Christmas poem
December 17, 2010 – 5:17 am | 3 Comments
A Christmas poem

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 …

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Monday crafts: hanging Christmas decoration
December 13, 2010 – 4:16 am | 3 Comments
Monday crafts: hanging Christmas decoration

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 …

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Monday crafts: how to make a Christmas message holder with a cereal bar box
December 6, 2010 – 1:03 am | 2 Comments
Monday crafts: how to make a Christmas message holder with a cereal bar box

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 …

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Junk play: a model of Monkey Puzzle
December 2, 2010 – 2:04 am | One Comment
Junk play: a model of Monkey Puzzle

Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson is still one of my son’s favourite books. The colourful illustrations and the engaging story of a little monkey lost who is trying to find his mum with the …

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Monday crafts: Rudolf the Christmas sock
November 29, 2010 – 4:39 am | 2 Comments
Monday crafts: Rudolf the Christmas sock

When Only Dads, a support website for single dads was approached to decorate a large Christmas tree in the Dartington Hall Trust, Bob Greig, the single father behind this great organization came up with the …

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Simple Christmas cards
November 27, 2010 – 6:55 am | No Comment
Simple Christmas cards

The theme for this month’s Get Crafty is white. To some people white might be plain, but to a lot of us white is stylish and beautiful that’s why we made these lovely Christmas cards. …

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