Today, I like to welcome Kim from The Best Ideas for Kids who is sharing a gorgoeus DIY Clay Leaf Magnet craft with us today. Not only do we LOVE to work with clay (we have many great easy clay projects for kids here), but these make stunning Autumn decorations, great little gifts for kids…
The easy spider craft love continues. This is a “double post”… I already shared this super duper cute 3D Paper Spider Craft with you… and now we share with you this fabulously easy Kirigami Paper Spider Web with you. Kirigami is the art of “folding and cutting” – so based on origami (we have some…
Oh we do LOVE DIY School Supplies! Anything from Bookmark Ideas to Pencil Holders , making those Back to School preparations creative, fun and personalised! Today, it is all about Pencil Topper Craft Ideas and all the homemade pencil toppers we have made over the years. We love pencil toppers, because usually they are fun, bright,…
So, as one school year draws to an end and we look ahead to the year ahead (my kids are heading into Year 3 and Year 5 – yikes!), I love to quickly and easily personalise their stationery with them. Oh how we love DIY School Supplies! Making DIY Pencil Toppers is a quick and…
My kids LOVE to sew at the moment, especially my daughter. If she could have her way she would be doing a new Sewing Project every day. My son on the other hand *quite* likes to sew. However, he needs to be encourage a little, and also needs nice and easy and QUICK Sewing Projects for Kids! So…
We love DIY School Supplies and Desk tidies. And one thing we love making over and over is a pencil holder DIY. We have made a number of different types of pencil holders in the past – some from juice cartons, others from TP Rolls, however have a particular favourite the Tin Can Pencil Holder…
Well.. since the new LEGO Batman movie hit the screens this February (and yes, we have been to see it!!), we have been a little Batman Crazy here at Red Ted Art. We have always loved Batman and Batman DIY Ideas, but sometimes it is nice to get that refreshed enthusiasm, don’t you think? To…
Well.. I have long wanted to make a Fancy Dress costume for my kids. And I kept thinking “yes yes, when they are older”. Then I suddenly realised, that when they are TOO much older, they will not WANT to wear a homemade fancy dress costume, however cool I think it is. So NOW is…
Welcome back to another easy origami for kids! Today we share this super cute and easy origami animal designs – the oh so VERY cute stand up Origami Cat. We have made a simple origami cat before (which of course we still love), but this time we have gone a step cuter with this simple…
With new season upon us, we dust off our printer and wonderful adult coloring pages for fall! I always forget “quite how many” coloring page designs I have on Red Ted Art for you… so I thought it would be helpful if I picked out some our favourite fall themes coloring pages. I have also added…
There are LOTS of different ways you can great a gift box! You can make a Gift box from paper or fabric, you can decorate an old shoe box and turn it into a gift box. Or you can take the humble TP Roll and create some fabulous shapes and designs – perfect DIY Gift…
Time for some POP UP card fun!!! We had a lovely Heart Pop Up Card guest post earlier in the year, which is super easy and fun to make (check out the cute Halloween Pop Up Cards too)!! I thought you can use the same simple principle to turn it into a DIY Emoji Card…
Well.. we are slowly getting into the Harry Potter stories here at Red Ted Art HQ. My son is FINALLY old enough to start reading them for himself, which is brilliant. I remember reading and devouring each and every book as they first came out. So if you are a Harry Potter fan like me,…
Yes! It is that time of year again.. time for you (?) and the kids to get dressed up!! I love how in the US Halloween Fancy Dress is NOT just about the spooky and the gory (here in the UK Halloween is exclusively, witches, ghosts, monsters and scary stuff), but that you get to…
Get the kids into sewing, with this great Sewing Project for Kids. I love “cute gory”.. I am not REALLY into Zombies and ugly things…. (I am NOT a Walking the Dead fan at ALL!), but I do like a cute Zombie.. or like in this case Voodoo Doll. But this Voodoo doll craft isn’t…
Learn how to make easy TP Roll Cat Gift Boxes. TP Rolls are so fun and versatile and these cardboard tube cats are so cute!
It is Christmas Jumper Day here in the UK soon and like many British school, the children will be wearing Christmas Jumpers on Friday 12th December to raise funds for Save The Children. Not actually owning any Christmas Jumpers (Red Ted, doesn’t really wear jumpers much) and not really having the time or inclination to…
Bless his cotton socks… Red Ted can get rather carried away when he falls “in love with” a new movie – some of you may have seen the recent Boxtrolls Movie (we already made a TP Roll Boxtroll Craft a couple of weeks ago) and if you are like us, you will find all those…
Hooray, we have finally had time to make another crafty video for you! This time we have the lovely Ali from Kids Chaos and myself talking Paper Pom Poms – Ali will show you how to MAKE Paper Pom poms (surprisingly easy!!), but we also talk about all the different ways you can use paper…
I have to say, one of the things I have REALLY enjoyed since having kids in my life, is having the opportunity to MAKE for them. Whether it is my own kids, my close friends’ kids or kids in the family, making your own presents for them is just wonderfully fun. We love DIY Gifts…
