Clearing up my son’s room last week we found an old toy guitar that was well passed repair. It used to be a cute mini acoustic guitar with real chords that you could actually play, …

We are very proud of the way this dragon puppet turned out. It took a little bit of work and fine tuning but in the end we managed to put it all together into a …

When it comes to crafting people have their favourite materials, things that are always present in their art box. We are particularly fond of recycled crafts so we tend to use any junk we can …

Loo rolls are great to make characters and animals with children. We made a bee with a loo roll, acrylic paint, adhesive tape and a strip of flexible bolster wood. First we covered one of …

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 …

This is a craft from the past, back when my son was learning the alphabet. In one of my few attempts to put some order in the piles of stuff we have accumulated during years …

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 …