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Kids Crafts: Stick Man

| September 29, 2010 | 55 Comments
Kids Crafts: Stick Man

Welcome to Kid’s Get Crafty! Today, we have FINALLY gotten round to a lovely autumn craft: making Stick Men. I have been wanting to make these with Red Ted for a while now and have sticks lying around all over the place! But I wasn’t quite sure how to tackle it. How would Red Ted [...]

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Kids Crafts – Snowflakes in Autumn – Using Nature to Make Snowflakes

| September 22, 2010 | 45 Comments
Kids Crafts – Snowflakes in Autumn – Using Nature to Make Snowflakes

  Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty. Today we are making snowflakes with nature’s “very own snowflake stamp” – waiting for you to pick it and have a go. Once you have the stamp, you can make pictures, cards, wrapping paper etc etc. Come take a look! Don’t forget Kids Get Crafty is also a link up [...]

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Kids Craft – The Mona Lisa

| September 15, 2010 | 33 Comments
Kids Craft – The Mona Lisa

  Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty. Today we are making Handprint Lions, learning about Renaissance paintings at toddler level and drawing the Mona Lisa! Dont forget Kids Get Crafty is also a link up party/ blog hop for all craftiness with and for children! Do take part. Do be inspired! Link up at bottom of post! [...]

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story + art = great stART – Strawberries, Bears and Mice!

| June 30, 2010 | 23 Comments
story + art = great stART – Strawberries, Bears and Mice!

Once you have looked at the video below, you will see that we have been working on this post since April! So, the strawberry came first and then the book. With summer upon us, we have all just experienced the wonders of spring.  I wanted to capture some of this for Red Ted, so since [...]

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story + art = Great stART – That’s not my Puppy, Fiona Watt – Touchy Feely Craftiness

| June 23, 2010 | 31 Comments
story + art = Great stART – That’s not my Puppy, Fiona Watt – Touchy Feely Craftiness

I love touchy feel books, they really do grab (sometimes literally) the attention of the smallest readers amongst us. Having said that, Red Ted (now 2.5yrs) still likes to look at all our touchy feely books, especially now that Pip Squeak (7 months) has taken an interest. That is not my that is not my Fiona [...]

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How to… make a Funny Bunny Sock Pet (Guest Post)

| June 11, 2010 | 38 Comments
How to… make a Funny Bunny Sock Pet (Guest Post)

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 [...]

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story + art = great stART – Giraffe’s can’t dance

| May 26, 2010 | 68 Comments
story + art  = great stART – Giraffe’s can’t dance

This week’s book & craft has been “brewing” for a while…  I am not sure why haven’t done it sooner, maybe I thought Red Ted was still too young. Well, he is in terms of  crafting, but he isn’t in terms of painting, sticking, helping and of course PLAYING! So, we embraced the craft – [...]

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Red Ted gets stuck in!

| March 24, 2010 | 23 Comments
Red Ted gets stuck in!

Here are some pegs that we made after the below, the principle is the same, let the toddler paint the pegs you stick on the bits, we now use them on art washing line: Decided to make my next craft blog with the help of Red Ted! Look at him getting stuck in concentrating hard.These [...]

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