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Sooooo. Do you like advent? Do your children usually have a “traditional” advent calendar? Do you like doing something a little different? How about an activity a day in the run up to Christmas? Everything from reading a story to making popcorn! 24 bloggers from across the globe have gotten together to bring you this virtual Advent [...]
Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty and our “Edible Christmas Ornaments”… ok ok… they are just cookies on a ribbon, but seeing as they are for hanging in the tree, surely that makes them and ornament? And as they are for eating.. surely that makes them edible. So therefore - edible ornaments? No? Christmas to me is [...]
Happy 1st Advent everyone! Not many people realise that already in late November Christmas preparations begin on the 1st Advent, celebrated on the 4 sundays preceding Christmas. In Austria you light a candle on each on these 4 sundays on an advent wreath. I wasn’t able to get hold of one (or make one) in time this [...]
A very quick craft for you – how to dry orange slices for Christmas. I love the “rustic” look of dried oranges – they are so simple and yet so cheerful and Christmassy. I have only really had time to dry our slices and to hang them by a ribbon (I do actually think this [...]
Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty for a crafty 2 in 1 Christmas craft (and how many “crafts” can I fit into one sentence!?!?)… I love this little craft. It is simple. Easy and adored by recipients: With the help of cookie cutters as templates make simple Christmas cards, which can be used as Christmas [...]
Hello! Welcome back to this week’s How To… and this week we have even MORE Christmas Elves. I just couldn’t resist. The basic elf is the same as the ones I showed you a couple of weeks ago, but your materials are slightly different. This time instead of gumnuts and pine cones I used the [...]
Welcome to How To… Make a Peg Christmas Wreath – a perfect wreath to help display all those wonderful Christmas cards you will be receiving… The lovely Kelly Innes from Domestic Goddesque is visiting again. If you don’t know Kelly, itis about time you did.. she does EVERYTHING, from crafting, to baking (check out her pumpkin cake) [...]
Welcome to Christmas Get Crafty – craft ideas for all the family. From easy, low tech to wonderfully intricate. What will grab your fancy? Once again I am very excited to that it is “Get Crafty” time.. I love seeing what everyone has been up to, as well as find some inspiration for ourselves… Christmas [...]
Another lovely How To Guest Post for you this week – Bird Nest Necklaces – or jewellery for beginners as I like to think of it!! I love this wonderfully pretty guest post from Sarah. Sarah has a wonderful blog called Sarah Ortega with lots of wonderful photographs but also lots of great DIY and [...]
I love Autumn and I love Christmas! And I love that the two come together… Today I have our “Christmas Elf Babies” – some from Australia and some from our local park. I know we still in October, but I collected some gumnuts from Australia MONTHS ago and recently my son found some mini pine [...]
I love challenges and crafty swaps.. so I joined a Christmas Crochet Ornament Swap and decided to make these snowflakes for beginners by the wonderful Attic 24. The pattern is great for beginners. Though do, do the last step, which is pin the snowflake and use some starch.. As you know, I am teaching myself [...]
Welcome to this week’s lovely “How to Make Lollibops”. By now we have all seen Annabel Karmel’s Stained Glass Window biscuits – I have seen in it various guises around the internet with varying degrees of success. BUT. Have you seen the Lollipops? Take stained glass window biscuits ONE step further and create these truly [...]
Hello! Welcome back to this week’s “How To”… today, I show you an oh so simple “no knit” Knitted Christmas Stocking. This forms part of the “Christmas in July” season. Which is designed to give you plenty of time to hunt around for any materials and get your crafts made! I saw this idea on [...]
Welcome to the New Year and Welcome to Kids Get Crafty! I had a completely different post scheduled for today, but then I remembered that on the 6th January the “3 Kings arrive” to visit the newborn King. I have made a real effort to tell Red Ted all about the nativity and what happened [...]
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 [...]
Handprint Animals: A Complete Alphabet A-Z
Well, it has been a fun 26 weeks! I cannot believe that we embarked on a Handprint Alphabet over 26 weeks ago (that is 6 months ago?! Wow). And what an alphabet journey it has been! We started off with an innocent A for Alien.. then a B for Bee.. and suddenly we were on [...]
Today we are looking at being “Creative with Flowers” – I decided to do our very first “How To Press Flowers” session with the children. Flower pressing is another on of those “childhood” classic crafts that you can have a go at – it is surprising how well some flowers do press (whilst, ahem, other don’t). So [...]
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