Kids Craft
2-3 years ago, I was at a craft fair and saw some simple Chinese New Year craft colouring sets – one was one of the dragon puppets. I thought “I could make one of those”. Only 3 years later, I have finally gotten around to drawing my own free printable for you. Of course you [...]
Just before Christmas Pip Squeak discovered her love for Paper Chains! We were visiting a friend who has some fabulously shiny, pre cut and with a self adhesive! Perfect for small toddler hands. So we made a fun chain… and with Chinese New Year approaching, I thought another simple snake craft for kids would be [...]
Sorry – this Kids Craft post went out 2 days early. Apologies. I hope you enjoy it anyway! Now that Christmas is almost over (we are still looking forward to 3 Kings Day), I set the “kids to work” and we made some Fingerprint Penguin cards as Thank You Cards for relatives. I have to [...]
TP Roll Crowns I do hope you have had a wonderful Christmas Day!! I am briefly back to share some “crafts from the past”, with two little crafts to help celebrate 3 Kings Day, as well as provide the weekly Kids Craft party for you!!! ! We do love to celebrate 3 Kings Day [...]
I first spotted these oh so cute Pom Pom Pinecone Trees many moons ago. I thought they were totally adorable and great for kids. Then I half forgot about them, until I saw them again on Rainy Day Mum’s blog and thought “a perfect Christmas Craft for our Christmas playdate coming up”. So today, we [...]
Finally we come to one of the New Year’s Eve Traditions that I can combine with a simple how to! In Germany pigs, four leaved clovers, horse shoes, toadstool and a chimney sweep are all signs of good luck. There are lots of theories about why pigs are a symbol of good luck, ranging from pigs [...]
Let’s celebrate Chinese New Year with this some Chinese New Year Crafts ! Every year the Chinese New Year will be on a different date, but it is usually late January to mid February. And I thought it would be nice to share another TP Roll craft… one that we made ages ago, but never shared [...]
I have a super duper simple and last minute Christmas Card Craft for you today. And one that very young children can help with too!!!! We made them, as Pip Squeak, watched me assemble our Teacher Appreciation Card and wanted to colour in some “baubles” too. So I drew some rough circles and let her have a [...]
Here is another one of the classic Chinese New Year crafts for kids – lanterns made from a sheet of paper (and in this case a glass and a candle or set of fairy lights! Your choice). Have distinct memories of making these for Fasching in primary school, but of course they are also a [...]
Looking for things to make for Chinese New Year? Well we haven’t shared a Toilet Paper roll craft in aaaages and yet I “hail myself the TP Roll Crafts queen”. Tut tut. So here is a little blast from the past – Red Ted maybe 2.5yrs ago! Wow, he is so little. We are making a [...]
December really is flying by and already we can bring you Day 16 of your Virtual Advent Calendar! Only 8 days to go and we are “all done”. The Creative Christmas Countdown is a series of activities to do with your kids during the advent season. Each day, we bring you a need idea by [...]
Recently, I was asked to write a simple craft idea for Organic Milk and their “No Nonsense Christmas Guide“… the idea being that you give the kids a range of activities to keep them happy and busy, whilst you get on with the last minute Christmas preparations. So today, I would love to share these [...]
So! Today I have a quirky little craft that can go “two ways”: either you make our cute little Santa Craft and hang it up on your tree as an ornament. Or you make at least 6 of these and create your very own little Santa Craft bowling game. Which will it be? We set [...]
You may know that we have a soft spot for “Stick Men”. We have made quite a few in our crafty times.. and they are a firm favourite after a walk in the park. xx From Summer 2011 – see the original stickman craft post here. From Autumn 2010 – see the original post + [...]
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 [...]
Kids Crafts: Making Mini Books & Garden Journals
Welcome to this week’s kids’s craft – Making Mini Books, which we turned into our Kids’ Garden Journal! First we dif some gardening and then we made some mini books out ONE sheet of paper (very cool and very exciting). This mini book will become the children’s “Garden Journal” (or simply use it as a [...]
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