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 …
Every year we make new Christmas decorations to hang around the house. This year we made some hanging stars cut out of discarded cardboard boxes, which we painted silver on one side and gold on …
This old style blow football game is the perfect stocking filler for young boys. Each box contains two cardboard goalies, pitch, blow football and straws. Move the ball by blowing through the straw instead of …
Kids love sleepovers and they love dinosaurs so a sleepover with dinos at the museum sounds like the perfect treat for 8 to 11 year olds. The Natural History Museums organises monthly sleepovers for kids …
Meet the loo roll Father Christmas and his reindeer with Rudolph leading the pack. This is a very quick craft that we intend to use for our festive animation series. To make the reindeer you …
These unusual Nativities in the picture are our picks from the Etsy collection. The Christmas Nativity blocks are great for kids to handle and play with. The 14 pieces have been sanded, antiqued and finished …
Crafting with junk is one of my favourite ways to get creative and when it comes to recycling I am partial to magazine pages. In the past we made coasters, table mats and napkin rings. …
Supporting creative play does not make me a mother who is completely against modern gadgets and electronic games. I believe all good things in moderation is often the answer, depriving children of something completely would …
Snakes and ladders is one of our favourite games so we often adapt it to special themes and Halloween seemed like the perfect occasion to slightly modify it. Our haunted snakes and ladders is very …
To complete our homemade set of Halloween lights this year we made a Frankenstein lantern to join the pumpkin and vampire from last year. Only this time instead of painting the jars we opted for …
Every year IKEA gets together with UNICEF and Save the Children to raise money for children in need and enable them to access quality education with the Soft Toy Campaign. For every soft toy, kid’s meal …
This is probably the easiest craft we have ever done, yet it is so effective. All you need to make these ghosts are white paper bags, black marker and a pair of scissors. Draw the …
Pumpkins are not readily available where we are so this year we turned a washing powder container into our jack’ o’ lantern. The process was fun and the skill necessary is definitely less much less …
A crossword for the holidays with a lot of Christmas words to practise spelling. The clues are simple and should be easy enough for school age children.
A few months ago I discovered an amazing American company that prints fabrics and paper on demand, you can upload your designs and have it printed on your favourite fabric. Spoonflower offers a great …
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