Spring
Welcome back to this week’s Kids Crafts – our wooly little lambs. We actually made this lamb craft a year ago for an article in Guardian “Creativity in the Classroom” … and finally it is time to share it here on Red Ted Art too. Hooray. You can make this sheep craft at any time [...]
Aaargh EASTER?! I hear you exclaim? What? But Easter is aaaages away… yes yes, I know, but… the kids don’t really care that we made Easter Eggs Chicks already, they just had fun. If you want to make these, you have to start on some egg blowing (check out how on my How To Make Easter [...]
Welcome to Easter Craft Ideas Round Up! You know how I love a good old “Get Crafty” (check out my Easter category for more) and Easter is such a great time of year to really have a go at crafts – either for yourself or with kids. All those beautiful, cheery Spring colours and cute Easter bunnies [...]
Welcome to Weather Get Crafty – the crafty carnival that brings you weather themed crafts and tutorials from around the web! I was a “little” worried that we may not have enough weather inspired crafts… but once again you all proved me wrong.. from the simplest toddler crafts to advanced sewers tutorial hopefully you will [...]
Welcome back to kids crafts! This week’s craft was inspired by, the kind people at Interflora. About 4-6 weeks ago, they were super lovely and send me a huge bunch of flowers. They were beautiful. And Red Ted thought they were beautiful. So I thought we could make our own bunch! We save all the [...]
I have a thing about Egg Cosies.. don’t ask me what it is, but I adore them!!! Everytime I see them somewhere or “another”, I am like “oooh, I want”. So, I finally got round to making some for us and of course for Red Ted Art. These are super cute and super easy… and [...]
Welcome to Kids Get Crafty! As some of you may be aware, Red Ted and I are “working” on a Calendar for the end of the year – each month we make set aside one craft for the calendar – so far we have had a “Winter Scene” and a handprint heart… so now we [...]
This is almost one those – you just need to see the photo “How To”s and the job is done… really, it is super duper quick an easy, you can embellish and dress them up or down as much as you like and really make them you. You can make these with kids (even a [...]
Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty! This week we have a very simple and fun craft for you.. it has already provided hours of fun in our house – these little 6 stone ducks! It all started with a walk on the beach. We collect 10s of stones and dragged them home… once home, what [...]
We have the lovely Chris visiting us again from Thinly Spread – where she writes about her appraoch to parenting, crafting, gardening and lots of lovely recipes! Check out her “Something for The Weekend” party for lots of weekend family ideas. Not only is Chris a fellow crafter (see her great Christmas Crackers she did [...]
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Well, here we have another lovely lovely Guest Post. This time from The Other Mousie – remember Monsieur Alphonse Poissonnier in Red Get Crafty? Well… here we have a super duper easy bunny version to make with children! (Scroll down to bottom for my attempt!)***Please note – enjoy the tutorial make these with your kids. Have [...]
Welcome to today’s story + art project with Red Ted. A very sweet and simple pop up book gave us inspiration this week! This craft project is great one for 5yrs+ or any age with a helping parent!!! Chick Greeting Cards chick, Ed Vere. As already said, this is a very sweet and simple pop up book [...]
Well, it was “so much fun” making the Funky Party Bag vlog, that I wanted to do it “again, again”. So here we are less than 2 days later with the “How to make Seedling Pots from Newspapers!”. You may have come across these before – often they try and sell you a funny little [...]
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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