Articles in Crafts
A for Apples is another alphabet craft from the past. Apple printing has remained one of our favourite activities and we usually revisit in autumn when the abundance of the seasonal fruit fills …
Shoe boxes are fantastic to craft. With a little imagination you can make anything out of boxes and we have. Among the rest we made bookshelves, storage boxes of many shapes and sizes and a …
We love making things out of stuff around us. Working out how to connect things together is part of the fun, but often glue and tape are just not enough to convert your idea into …
Today I have a nice little recycling project that turned out to be a functional toy. I am in recycling juice cartons mode at the moment so I decided to make a dumper truck from …
Pegs, pegs and more pegs. Today we have a very simple raft put together with wooden pegs, glue and construction paper. We glued seven spare pegs side by side with the flat side facing up …
Lately I have grown fond of making things with broken wooden pegs. After the success of our rocking chair decorated with comics we made a raft, which actually floats, and a not so scary crocodile. …
I am crazy about new ideas on how to reuse before recycling and as much as I often come up with some clever ideas of my own I am regularly inspired by the brilliant works …
Our craft this week is a fun construction that actually floats and it’s bound to provide hours of fun in the water on windy days. We made a catamaran with two small plastic bottles, one …
To complete our magazine themed table set this week we make some napkin rings with a kitchen roll tube and magazine cuttings. First we cut the tube into rings of the same height and we cut …
I started this craft with the idea of making flowers using the colourful cereal packaging we have collected and some wooden sticks. I made one to try it out and then suggested to make some …
After an elaborate kind of craft, today we have something much simpler, which not only is suitable for kids of all ages, but it is also a lot of fun to make and to use. …
Today’s craft is for older kids who have reached a good level of manual ability to construct things and decorate with precise skill. We are really on a mission here to use all those old …