Fabric upcycle: make a chicken door stop
September 11, 2014 – 5:55 am | No Comment

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 …

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Monday Crafts: how to make a picture frame out of ice cream sticks and sand
August 23, 2010 – 3:36 am | One Comment
Monday Crafts: how to make a picture frame out of ice cream sticks and sand

After two weeks of complete relax, eating ice cream on the beach and collecting shells we are back with a seasonal craft idea. As you all know by now we don’t regard popsicle sticks as …

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How to make a post box with a loo roll and air dry clay
August 3, 2010 – 2:59 am | No Comment
How to make a post box with a loo roll and air dry clay

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 …

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Recycled Crafts: From Ice Cream Sticks To Colourful ABCs
July 2, 2010 – 1:01 am | One Comment
Recycled Crafts: From Ice Cream Sticks To Colourful ABCs

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 …

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Kids crafts: From Popsicle Sticks to Pen Holder
June 29, 2010 – 1:02 am | 2 Comments
Kids crafts: From Popsicle Sticks to Pen Holder

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 …

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Monday Crafts: make a bracelet with foil and old newspapers
June 28, 2010 – 2:55 am | No Comment
Monday Crafts: make a bracelet with foil and old newspapers

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 …

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Monday Crafts: A Map of Europe with Recycled Packaging Boxes
June 21, 2010 – 1:08 am | 3 Comments
Monday Crafts: A Map of Europe with Recycled Packaging Boxes

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 …

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Monday Crafts: bilboquet made with recycled objects
June 14, 2010 – 9:34 am | 5 Comments
Monday Crafts: bilboquet made with recycled objects

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 …

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Monday Crafts: Father’s Day pencil holder
May 24, 2010 – 5:46 am | No Comment
Monday Crafts: Father’s Day pencil holder

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 …

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Monday Crafts: Easter bunny card
March 8, 2010 – 4:17 am | 4 Comments
Monday Crafts: Easter bunny card

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, …

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Monday Crafts: Christmas branch with pine cones, felt and recycled ribbons
December 7, 2009 – 8:18 am | 4 Comments
Monday Crafts: Christmas branch with pine cones, felt and recycled ribbons

Today’s craft is made completely out of recycled ribbon from presents, left over felt (from our advent calendar and Christmas stocking) and from things that we found in the pinewoods. Our Christmas branch is …

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Monday crafts: Halloween decorations made of recycled tissue paper from shoe boxes
October 19, 2009 – 3:40 am | 2 Comments
Monday crafts: Halloween decorations made of recycled tissue paper from shoe boxes

With Halloween approaching yesterday we made some very easy bats decorations. It was a completely recycled craft as we used the tissue paper from shoe boxes. Yes, we went shopping for shoes on Saturday…in fact …

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