Apologies to all those readers who come back regularly for the Monday Crafts post, but our summer calendar has changed so much that we don’t have the continuity of winter when a good part of …

My son is so much into tennis that as a special treat during our stay in London I took him for a tour around Wimbledon Tennis Club and Tennis Museum. The museum is in modern …

Not all ice scream sticks are the same and we have collected quite a large number of the curved type that come with the Solero Ice, which is very popular with us. The curved shape …

I knew all those Popsicle sticks we have been collecting would come in handy sooner or later. Yesterday we used them to make yet another pen holder to collect all those pens and crayons accumulating …

I picked up the idea of the foil bracelet from the Kid Made Modern Book by Todd Oldham, but we changed it slightly to incorporate old newspaper as well as foil. This is a very …

I was so inspired by the map of the United States made entirely from empty cereal boxes that I saw on Inhabitots recently that I embarked on the nice project of making one of …

It is always rewarding to make new things by recycling objects that would be otherwise regarded as waste. It is exactly what we did this week for our Monday crafts appointment. We made the ancient …

Yesterday was the first Sunday with some really serious beach weather, instead we had to attend one of those events for children that you’d rather avoid on a Sunday, but you don’t really want your …

Air dry clay is a very good and versatile art material and one pack normally lets you create quite a lot. One thing I learnt using air dry clay is not leave the pack open …

This weekend I set off with the idea of making flowers with colourful wire, but after the first one I realised it wasn’t exactly the craft for a 6 year old as the wire …

The Sardinian countryside is beautiful at this time of the year, before the heat of the sun makes everything go golden – which is beautiful too by the way– we are blessed with lush green …

I have admired Hello Hanna’s products for a while and when I saw the Hello Books I just had to share them with everyone here because they are such a great simple idea to occupy …