Welcome to Netmum’s special “Easter Bonnet week”! Every year us mums get sent home from school with the task to create an Easter Bonnet with our children

I made this Fork & Spoon Wind Chime almost a year ago (wow, time does “fly”). At the time it was for the Tesco Summer Magazine. Wonderful to be featured there along side some of our cardboard tube pirates and saltdough dinosaurs. All great activities for long holidays. Finally, it seems like a good time to share this craft with you – Spring is in the air and we are slowly looking forward to spending more time in garden – planting seeds soon, but I also hoping to make our …

Welcome back to this week’s How To where I show you how to make a candle again – this time Egg Candles in time for Easter – so if your are looking for Easter Egg ideas, look no further! This is a good time to start planning your Easter Egg ideas, as you have to collect all your egg shells first and then you can decorate them or make these fun Easter candles. So you need plenty of time to prepare!! As you know, I have been on a candle …

Welcome. As you know, our Dolls’ House is an ongoing project. As I add room by room and detail for detail. I was very pleased with the shell sink and the shower I showed you last time and we had lots of fun decorating the house for Christmas! Today I have  simple bed pattern. I made it to fit our dolls. I used the length of our dolls as a guide. You can easily adjust the basic pattern and idea for your dolls and your house!
Materials:
Thick card, stanley knife, …

Just a silly little game for you – can you guess who this is????

A little hint: A well known UK celebrity….
Like this game? Let me know and I will do some more cardboard tube celebrities for you!
PS I shan’t comment on the guesses until later in the week.. I may just spoil it!

Another craft I have been meaning to make for aaaages – this cute and fun juggling bean bag chooks!  And there is nothing quite like a 4 year old’s birthday party to get you crafting (check out the Chook Bean Bag Toss)…… What I love about these chooks, is that they look ADORABLE and are surprisingly easy to make. Don’t worry – no complicated alignment of triangles. All you need is one rectangle and some clever sewing! You can machine or hand sew them. I can’t remember where I first saw these …

Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty. This week we completed a Paper Bag Craft Challenge set by the gorgeous Tinkerlab… We posted it earlier this week. Want to see what we made…??? Then come and check this link out. In the meantime, a clue:

In the meantime, I would LOVE to see what you got up to.

For more Kid’s Craft ideas, click here for a full list.If you have been crafty with your kid’s be it at home, in the kitchen or outdoors, I would love for you to link up:

Do …

You may have seen the magazine craft challenge a couple of month’s ago, now there is a fabulous Paperbag Craft challenge by Tinkerlab. I always get into a creative tizz when it comes to Tinkerlab’s challenges, as all the blogs taking part have such wonderfully creative ideas.
After much pondering, we finally came up with our paperbag craft. I knew we wanted to make a paper bag mask of some sort, just not which.
Then one day… Red Ted, Pip Squeak and I were sitting on the sofa and reading one …

 You may have seen my post about how to make candle wicks and a brief intro to making your own “test candles” (aka ice cube tray candles!). Since then I had a little play and started making all sorts of different candles in a variety of colours! I had heard before, but not believed, that you could make candles using cookie cutters on aluminium foil… surely all the wax would just run out? So I decided to sacrifice the order of my kitchen (not that it is very orderly) and …

Welcome to this week’s How To – “How to make candle wicks”.  As you know, I love to recycle and each year at Christmas we are left with a lot of old, but perfectly good candles. As a child I once received a candle making kit and loved it. I wanted to have another go at making candles – but with things from around the house. To start off I needed some candle wicks. So I looked up how to make candle wicks and found that the recommendations varied. So. …