christmas
Got a party to go to? Sorted out your gift? But **forgot** the wrapping paper? Need something quick. Nice but last minute? Make your own DIY wrapping paper with potato prints and cookie cutters. Super easy and fast! Materials: rolled white paper or brown packing paper or even newspaper, a potato, cookie cutter, knife and [...]
We do love Christmas and one thing we LOVE doing is making at least one little homemade Christmas ornament every year. Both for our Christmas tree and Granny’s! Some these I made with the children, some on my own and hopefully there will be something for everyone! If you are new to Red Ted Art, [...]
I have done a weekly photo in a while… but here is my little girl crown Queen of 3 Kings Day… We have adopted the Spanish tradition of placing a ceramic figurine in a 3 Kings Day cake (in our case a Panatone… I baked one last year, but decided life was simpler with a [...]
We are all set. Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!!! Thank you for all your visits, reading, commenting and support this year! Maggy, The Englishman, Red Ted & Pip Squeak (PS Christmas stockings tutorial here)
Well.. as you know it is Christmas in our dolls’ house too. Last week we made some little Christmas Tree ornaments that doubled up as the dolls’ house *real* tree. We then also made paper chains. Red Ted has been wrapping “things” at nursery and wanted to do “more wrapping” at home. So together we [...]
Look what Red Ted (3.75yrs) made at nursery – a gorgeous snowman card… say aaaaaah. He is so proud of it! And so am I! Materials: Blue card stock, cotton wool pads, googly eyes, scrap white towling, glitter, paint —————————————————————————————————————- Submit your designs to the best custom greeting cards to make your photo christmas cards extra special.
Well…. even the lovely little people in our cardboard box doll’s house need to celebrate Christmas… so today we made some decorations for the doll’s house, that also double up as Christmas Tree ornaments… Perfect for little or big hands. Make them yourself (and let them magically appear over night in the doll’s house or [...]
This week brings you yet more lovely Christmas Crafts with this How to make a Fabric Bauble from Snaffles Mummy! It really is “decorations” galore here at Red Ted Art, but with Christmas rapidly heading our way, why not? I love ornaments and this is another fabulous idea. Choose fabrics that “fit your colour scheme”. [...]
Today I am sharing with you a Christmas Craft VLOG – how to make Photo Christmas Baubles… remember the kid’s art paper baubles from last year? Well this year, thanks to the clever peeps at Kodak, I am making some Photo Christmas Baubles. Same principle, but an adorable keepsake of the year gone by… Materials: [...]
Aha. Walnut Babies? But didn’t I do a post about this a few days ago.. yes yes yes! I did! But we are very busy here in Red Ted HQ and we had an “extra craft” on Saturday (i.e. Walnut Babies) and ANOTHER extra craft on Monday (The Christmas Cards). And I am afraid we are [...]
A quick Christmas card craft for your kids! Cute. Cheap. Fun. I do love a crafty challenge, so when the gorgeous Tinkerlab said that the next challenge was on, I knew we *had* to take part. This time she set the “magazine” craft challenge. Nothing like a bit of recycling. And at this time of [...]
Hello! Today we share out little Walnut Babies (aka Walnuss Wiegenkinder or Walnussbaby), yet another classic German/ Austrian childhood craft. This is also very special edition of “Kids Get Crafty”, as it is part of the Kids Craft Group “Advent Calendar Activities”. A number of blogger friends have got together to create an activity a [...]
Welcome to this week “Fabric Scarp Angel”… now I love love love this little angel ornament for several reasons: Firstly.. it is recycled. You know me and recycling, there are so many “bits and pieces around the home” that really can be put to good use and it is great when you make something cute [...]
Welcome to Santa & Angel Get Crafty – lots of wonderful crafts to celebrate Mr Clause himself, as well as those wonderfully angelic angels…. I was a little nervous, as to whether there would be enough Santa and Angel Crafts out there… but believe you me there are. And hopefully you will find a nice [...]
So.. I had dinner to cook for the kids and I had a handful of craft sticks. So I gave these to the kids, a bunch of pens and some googly eyes, whilst I sorted their dinner. And we got.. these adorable Craft Sticks Bookmarks. They would be a FABULOUS little gift for Father’s Day [...]
Well! Yes, Father’s Day isn’t for a little while and Father’s Day dates vary around the globe.. and you know, Fathers have birthdays too, right? What to make? And they can be whenever, so some crafty bloggers got together to talk Gifts for Dad that Kids can make!! Brilliant. There are of course the Father’s [...]
Quick Craft: Father’s Day Feet Bookmarks
We saw these super cute and easy footprint bookmarks over at The Seeds Network Blog. We used contact paper and wrote the children’s ages on the back. The ribbons are recycled! Father’s Day sorted (we made extra for the grandfather’s too). We love footprint crafts and have made plenty of thank you cards and even [...]
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