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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

I have recently come across The Gallery hosted on Sticky Fingers, a weekly link up of photographs that follows a different theme every week. When I saw this week’s theme, Before & After, I immediately …

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 …

We have been very busy at the weekend working on ideas for our Christmas crafts and setting a few of them in motion. We will make our own nativity using a variety of materials, from …

I was so inspired by Red ted Art’s story cubes last week that I just had to make some myself. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any wooden blocks on a short notice so I got my …

During an attempt to put some order in my son’s bookshelves at the weekend we revisited some of the books from his early childhood. It was a fun exercise and I found myself filling with …

The link up over at the Play Academy this week is all about messy play so I revisited some of the activities from my son’s preschool years — no that now we don’t have enough …