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…
Well, we had great fun with our Egg Cress heads nearer Easter time… but to be honest, you don’t just have to do cress heads (or sprout heads as known in some areas) JUST at Easter. It is a simple science experiment that you can do all year round – to investigate how things grow….
Our mini Guest Post series continues…. celebrating the UK Blogging Awards time – “BiBs” , I am taking the opportunity to show case some of my fellow nominees! As it is now time to vote for your favourite crafty (Brit) blog… This year, I am in crafts and outstanding categories (thank you for those of you who…
We have been meaning to make this Minion Craft for AAAAAGES. We have been collecting Kindersurprise Egg capsules for weeks now, and making sure that we are stocked up on Googley eyes, which are just perfect for any Minion Craft. With the Easter holidays upon us, we finally have enough time to get on with…
You may have noticed that we are having a little Paper Plate Crafts session in our house. Basically, we had a stack left over and need to get crafty with them. As we are still in Easter and Spring Crafts mode, we thought a cute little Paper Plate Nest craft would be in order. It…
So, it is time for some egg decorating ideas in our house. A while back, this adorable little Glitter Egg Chick from Willow Day caught my eye, and I knew that with my glitter obsessed children, we had to have a go at these adorable little Glitter Egg Dioramas. I encouraged the kids to come…
More wonderful Preschool Crafts for you today! As we enjoyed our Fairy Tale Crafts video so much, we thought we would get together and do a Nursery Rhyme Crafts and Activities video too! By nursery rhymes, I mean poems and songs – basically any poems or songs that make your childhood special. The children had…
The kids and I are Pom Pom mad right now (do check out our Pom Pom Crafts & Ideas)… I come down in the mornings and our Pom Pom seem to just multiply of their own accord. We have our new Pom Pom Maker (see info below) to thank for that. Needless to say, you can…
So… we had some wonderful Fairy Tales and Fairy Tale Crafts recently.. and I thought it would be fun to explore some Nursery Rhymes and crafts to go with them. We already have a popular 5 Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day craft, as well as some little walnut mice, perfect for a Hickory Dickory…
We have of course shared Bunny DIYs, Easter Chick Crafts and Easter Basket ideas with you before… but bunnies and rabbits are BIG in our house. So I thought we would need some more! Both the kids “comforters” are and were Rabbits. So it is only natural for us to explore some bunny crafts… and as Easter is…
We love baking over at Life at The Zoo… Cooking with kids is something that I am passionate about, but also need to make more time for. We also like to make things FUN. So we took our easy basic Carrot Cake recipe, turned it into muffins AND then decorated them with little ready roll…
Some of you may know, that we have been having LOTS of fun with our PomPom Maker (aff). I have resisted a pompom maker as an “unnecessary” gadget for ages.. after all 2 strips of card/ circles of card or a fork will do nicely. Yes it will. But I found that the pompom make is…
We are always on the look out for clever crafts and this pine cone craft is just one of these – turn your pinecones into fire starters. I spotted this in A Green Guide to Country Crafts a few weeks ago. A lovely book, which takes you back to traditional crafting -from soap making to,…
The “lovely” 31 Days of Love -series continues, lots of crafts, bakes and activities to do with kids this Valentine’s Day. Michelle from Mummy from the Heart is sharing a great Valentine’s Day Idea with us today: a Heart Bento Box. Brilliant! If you are looking for some Valentines Treat and Valetine’s Cards do check them out too! Hi, I’m Mummy from…
Today we have the Sugar Aunts visiting for the 31 Days of Love , they shaer their adorable Valentines Treat , which I know I will doing again at Easter – a great idea for two occasions! We are very excited to join you to join you today on the 31 Days of Love. Creating fun treats for Valentine’s Day…
This is Valentines Treat week on the 31 Days of Love and we have Otilia from Romanian Mum Blog sharing her delicious heart cookies with you. Wrapped up, they make a great Valentines Gifts that Kids can Make too! Good day everybody! I am very excited to be guest posting here at Red Ted Art! My name is Otilia and…
31 Days of Love Continues with this Shaving Foam Marbling activity from Afterschool for Smarty Pants to make your own “mass produced” Valentines Cards for Kids. Mass produced is a good term.. as the kids adored the process and marbled sheet after sheet of paper. It was quick to set up and was clean messy fun!!…
I have been making our recycled advent candles again recently (in essence following the same process as for our Easter Eggs Candles but with a “normal” mold). Red Ted asked if he could draw some numbers on our candles (1 through to 4 for the 4 Advent Sundays) which made me think – why not…
Mmmh now HERE is a blast from the past and makes for a GREAT gift for kids to make for loved ones. My mother scanned in an old present I had made her in 1981: it was an “art calendar” for the following year (1982). So I would have been 5-6yrs old (i.e. Red Ted’s…
Many moons ago, we went to a Christmas in July do with the lovely ladies at Hobbycraft. They showed us all their latest Christmassy bits and pieces and got us into the festive mood. They were sad not to see Pip Squeak, as they had loved her crafty enthusiasm at Easter. So they gave me…
