Well.. as some of you may know, we are off to the beach this weekend – courtesy of Butlins in Minehead. The UK has had some very unseasonal warm weather… and now that we are off to the beach, said whether has turned Autumnal. Typical! But to be honest, we don’t mind, afterall we DID…
‘Tis the Season to Get Crafty – tra la la la la laaaa… certainly Autumn crafts are all in at the moment.. the trees are starting to change colours, the woods are littlered with Acorns and Chestnuts… Last week we made chestnut creatures and chestnut pencil toppers… this week we have a Chestnut Streamer Toy…
Welcome to this week’s Kids Crafts – this week we share with your our horse chestnut craft – Chestnut Pencil Toppers. Crafting with chestnuts, acorns, leaves and bits and pieces is something that I remember well from early childhood.. mainly we would make little animals, similar to the acorn critters from last week. Chestnuts are slightly trickier…
There seems to be an explosion of Autumn nature crafts on Red Ted Art at the mothen we finished our Get Crafty with Nature ebook, then we made acorn elves and nature fairy houses… and now.. now we have acorn animals for you! Hooray! The great thing about fresh acorns, is that they are quite…
Hello hello! As I am off on holiday this week, I thought I would do a quick summary of our calendar project to date… maybe it will inspire you to have a go this summer? We did do this every month, but with 6 weeks of summer holidays, you could maybe do two pictures a…
Hello! Welcome back to another Summer Arts and Crafts for Preschoolers project. Today we share our simple Summer Picture. As some of you may be aware, we are saving “one craft per month” for a Kids Art Calendar at the end of the year. As part of this we are working on our Four Season’s Pictures….
Sponsored post Hello hello hello! Ooh today I have a lovely topic to talk about – the great outdoors! As a crafty mum.. you probably think, I spend the whole time “indoors” with my family… well no, that would proove a great disaster – we need to go out and run and skip and breath…
Exploring the four seasons with our lovely spring bubble wrap trees!
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! Not only is Chris a fellow crafter (see her great Christmas Crackers she did for Red Ted Art before), but she is also a great gardener. If you…
Traditional Walnut Boat Craft – We do love to craft with walnuts. There is something autumnal about them and I love how tactilce they are. Walnuts crafts are also usually very “cute”, because they are small(er)! Our walnuts are back! I did say I had a few walnut crafts up my sleeves… if you liked our…
Exploring the four seasons with our lovely winter bubble wrap trees!
Welcome to Winter Sparkle Get Crafty. I am not really sure “what I was expecting” when I choose the theme for this month’s Get Crafty, other than, to make winter greyness sparkle and look wonderful. So Winter Sparkle brings you some seasonal crafts… I think it is a wonderful collection again. I hope you like them….
Hello, welcome back to Kids Get Crafty! With the excitement of Halloween over, it is time to “revisit” the left overs and get crafty: Red Ted and I saved some of our Butternut Squash (or Pumpkin) seeds and made this very quick little owl. Sadly, Red Ted decided that it would be GREAT fun to…
Hello! Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty. With Halloween JUST around the corner, I really did need to get on with it and do something seasonal with Red Ted. We haven’t really “done” Halloween yet, so we kept it simple. Some pumpkin drawings and a cute cute little Satsuma (!) Lantern (though adults need to…
Welcome back to Kids Get Crafty. Today, I want to write a little about my passion and beliefs when it comes to art and adults and children alike having a go. I do talk about Pip Squeak a lot, but this applies to all ages! I hope I have succeeded incoming across “just passionate” and providing you with food for…
Hello! And Welcome to Christmas Get Crafty. I am posting this in October, to hopefully inspire you and give you LOTS of time to Get Crafty this Christmas season. Do take a look and do have a go. Christmas is such a special time of the year, that craftiness makes it all the more fun!…
I really do love “this time of the month”, when I see all those wonderful Get Crafty craftiness coming my way and then I get to put it all together in one place! Lovely to see so many inspirational people out there. Get Crafty is designed to inspire people to “Get Crafty”. Hope you find…
Though Red Ted Art is really known for all our Classic Kids Crafts. Here I share with you OVER 101 “How Tos/ Tutorials” targetting the tweens, teens and adult crafter! You will find that this 101 Tutorials page is a really eclectic mix of crafts – some are super simple and easy.. some require a…
If you are looking for Easy Crafts for Kids to do with things that you have around the home, this page is your best starting point. It is packed and I mean PACKED with easy kids crafts ideas to keep you busy for a long time! This should really be called a “Craft 101” opposed…
This is story + Art rolled into a geography lesson rolled into learning about “Mr Postman” rolled into having a little fun rolled into excited Red Ted rolled into an excuse to explore mainy new books…. What am I talking about? Playing By The Book’s international Postcard exchange!!! The exchange did take place a few…
