New Year’s Eve
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A big welcome to the lovely Rachel from Sun Scholars! A lovely blog that I have been following for quite some time! As Rachel is currently living in China, I thought it would be lovely to have a wonderful guest post about Chinese New Year as part of the “New Year’s Eve” Tradition series. Great [...]
And as our New Year’s Eve Traditions from around the world draw to a close.. about making your very own and very special Family Traditions? Today, Super Amazing Mum shares her family’s very own tradition and I reckon there are a thing or three we might start doing ourselves!!! I’ve always loved New Year’s Eve [...]
Today I have the wonderful Alissa from Creative With Kids guest posting and sharing her Bleigießen tradition. It is something that I remember well from my childhood and I think I will get hold of some “blei” for next year and my kids! (Photo: from Wikipedia) An Austrian New Years Tradition “Get the best!” she would [...]
Today we have Varya telling us all about New Year’s Eve in Russia! Whenever I smell tangerines, the sensation instantly brings back warm memories of New Year season. I’m Varya, mom of 2 girls, an early education expert blogging at Little Artists (http://littlartists.blog.com) about encouraging creativity in children, parenting, cooking and more! I am originally [...]
Today’s New Year’s Eve Tradition is again more of a “New Year’s Day Tradition”. But I am sure you will forgive me the “New Year’s Eve” title! I welcome Hannah to share her family’s traditions all the way from Scotland with us! Hannah a mummy of 2 boys and writer of beauty, fashion, lifestyle and [...]
Today, I have another lovely guest poster sharing their New Year’s Eve Traditions (well a New Year’s DAY tradition..) with us: Ruth Dawkins is a Scottish mum of one living in Hertfordshire, and she blogs about parenting, photography and politics over at DorkyMum. When I married an American five years ago, I was introduced to [...]
Here is a cheeky New Year’s Eve Tradition.. that will make you smile from the lovely Marianne – can you believe it? I asked a couple of other Italian friends and they confirmed it with vigorous head nodding, as well as telling me, that the Italians also like to through their old kitchen ware out [...]
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 [...]
Our New Year’s Eve Tradtions from around the world series, takes us now to Mama Pea Pod and Hungary. [...]
Welcome to today’s featured New Year’s Eve Tradition: Wave Jumping in Brazil. A good friend (and reader of Red Ted Art!) told me about this fun tradition. The Brazilians do love to party and as New Year’s Eve falls in their summer, outdoor parties and a dip in the sea provide for a pleasant activity. [...]
I hope you don’t mind me going slightly off topic for a few days, as I share with you some New Year’s Eve Traditions from around the world. **Remember, today is the first of a series of New Year’s Eve Traditions, come back daily for more, or subscribe to the site so you don’t miss [...]
Hooray, ’tis the season to be Jolly.. so many wonderful celebrations in Autumn/ Winter from Thanks Giving, to Halloween, to Christmas and the ending in News Year Eve! These are all occasions that are wonderful for establishing family traditions and getting crafty with and for family or kids – find ideas for Halloween, Pumpkin Decorating and Christmas [...]
Last year I saw wonderful Time Capsule over at Kelli Crowe and her wonderful photos of her time capsule (and family) have since being doing the internet rounds. This year I wanted to have a go with my family too. Today, on New Year’s Eve, we had a busy afternoon out in the park with [...]
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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