Oh yes, here in the UK it is the “silly season” again — as Comic Relief hurtles towards us, the whole of the UK, is planning what silly antics they can get up to in the name of charity.. to be honest, I all think it is an excuse.. people just want to get silly……..
We recently made a Skylander’s Cake for my 7 year old’s Birthday party (full photos and post to follow!). As part of this, we need some little edible sheep decorations. I had some fondant icing left over, but couldn’t get decent black food colouring in time for finishing off the cake… so I came up…
We have a two for one craft for you today.. our first are wonderful Beaded Bubble Wands, which work BRILLIANTLY with our Homemade Bubble Recipe (great for GIANT Bubbles too). The seconded are beautiful beaded suncatchers…. I am delighted today, to talk about and share a VERY LOVELY book with you today – it is…
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Welcome today, to a joint post from Rosemond and myself. Rosemond loves books and stories.. and shares a wonderful story book with us – Somebody Loves You Mr Hatch – a story about how you can change someone’s life, by a very simple act of kindness and thoughtfulness. We share a couple of ideas and activities…
As the 31 Days of Love series continues, we bring you today some LOVELY Valentine’s Day colouring by numbers pages. My kids ADORE doing these and it is a great way to reinforce their number recognising skills (especially for my little one!). This is colouring page would be lovely for Easter too! I am Andreja…
Ooooh this is a fun theme – moustache crafts! (Or is it mUstache crafts?! Well.. if you are US based, please replace all the moustaches in this post with “mustache”.. similarly to our colour and your color! What is it with out additional “u”)… but I digress in a big way. I didn’t want to…
We have a long standing “love affair” with salt dough, it is something that we come back to over and over again. Many of our salt dough crafts we don’t even “bother” sharing with you here, as they are variations on the same theme or the children simply modeling, exploring and having fun with salt…
Soooo -are you getting ready to get Back to School? Are you looking for things to keep the kids busy in the final weeks of the Summer holidays? Well, why not combine the two and get crafty in the holidays AND get ready for back to school?! 3M Scotch challenged me to get ready with…
How to make a ladybug and bee tic tac toe game with sticks and stones. A fun nature craft for kids!
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…
Hooray for Paper Plates and fun Paper Plate Crafts for Kids… I love our inexpenisve and versatile paper plates are. And as a craft material relatively environmentally friendly too. They make a great Preschool Craft with lots of wonderful topics and seasons to explore. If you are a regular reader of Red Ted Art, you…
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,…
