This week I bring you a craft for Halloween which is entirely my son’s from idea to completion. In true recycle style he made two lanterns using just glass jars, paint, crease paper and floating …

After seeing so many spooky cakes and sweets we attempted to make our own this afternoon with marzipan, sugar and chocolate icing. We made cookies shaped like bats and Frankenstein. Ingredients 250g marzipan, …

  I am determined not to buy anything already made for Halloween this year so at the weekend we decorated some plain paper bags to fill with treats for our Halloween party. Inspired by …

In preparation for Halloween we have come up with an idea to reuse an old beach bucket by turning it into a trick or treat container to collect all the sweets and gifts. To transform …

Apologies to all of you lovely readers who expect to see a post about crafts on Monday. Well, we have been a little busy at the weekend so I bring you our crafty post on …

Etsy is one of my favourite places to go and look for ideas so with Halloween on the calendar this month I could not miss a good look around. These are my selections. The Boo …

Halloween is around the corner so we have started our decorations with some homemade spiders. They are very easy to make and a lot of fun to decorate. To remain true to our recycle philosophy …

For our weekly crafts this week we have made two little Easter baskets out of white clay. To make the baskets you need a packet of DAS modelling air dry clay, a cup, acrylic …

I love these Easter eggs crayons that I found while having a browse at Etsy last night. It had been a while since I had a good pick at their wonderful handmade products so don’t …

  This week for our Monday crafts we have more Easter cards on the menu. We used different techniques to make the basic cards in the photo. Our first card was the …

Yesterday we made our first Easter card. I got the inspiration from allaboutyou, which is a great source for simple kids’ crafts. All you need to make the card is blue card or thick paper, …

After four busy days in London and a packed schedule, which amongst other things included an exciting visit to Hamleys, a cold Sunday afternoon at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park and a fab morning at …