Time for some Unicorn Crafts! I was deliberating and deliberating and deliberating what our best Unicorn Party Craft would be – after all the kids are all of Preschool age and between 3yrs and 4yrs old. We were definitely going to do some unicorn cookie decorating, but I wanted something else too. And up popped…
Christmas – it’s that magical time of year that can send any child’s excitement levels into the stratosphere! It’s easy to get carried away and swept along by our children’s enthusiasm, but for many parents, Christmas means one thing. Money… and lots of it. The festive season is an expensive time of year – without…
Learn how to make an easy toilet paper roll snowman – recycle kids’ odd socks in the process. A cute winter craft you can play with too!
The “daily creativity” Posts are all about simple activities to inspire and nurture your kids to get arty. They are about exploration and having a go. About the kids just having fun and discovering things for themselves. Hopefully giving them a “tool kit” of experiences to draw back on, as their art exploration develops. The…
We have been meaning to make edible sparklers for like FOREVER. They are great for as a bonfire night activity or for New Year’s Eve or for the 4th of July. Any celebration involving fireworks, and your edible sparkler is the obvious treat for kids to make!! There all sorts of different types too –…
Some of you may know, that Pip Squeak is turning FOUR soon! And she would like to have a Unicorn Party theme. That opens up lots of possiblities – unicorns (of course), rainbows, glitter etc. So to start our Unicorn party season off, we had to design and make our party invites! I try and…
We visited friends over the weekend and went to their local park: and found 100s of horse chesnuts or conkers as the Brits would call them. Where we live, we have found a good amount – say 5 or so at a time… but in our friends park: 100s! How could we resist. With bulging…
Time for some Christmas Toilet Paper Rolls and our oh so cute Toilet Prll Reindeer Rudolph DIY. The Christmas season is a special time of year – it is a time to create traditions and make memories. There are special stories, delicious food and time to get crafty! We have so many Christmas Crafts for you here…
We love this time of year! If you haven’t noticed yet we have gone Autumn Craft Mad!!! We particularly love Autumn Crafts for Preschoolers, that they can enjoy and take part in. There are sooo many beautiful shapes and textures and colours out there at the moment: from Horse Chestnuts (aka conkers) to pine cones…
Can you believe that I thought of this easy advent calendar idea a year ago? But it was already December and I thought that most of you would have gotten your advent calendars sorted already… So finally, it is time to share it with you in the next “big rush” to Christmas! This is the…
I have been going on about Nature Crafts for Autumn for the last couple of weeks now… I simply adore getting the kids to craft with acorns and chestnuts and pine cones. They get to hunt for them in the park and bring them home for some lovely textured crafting. At the same time, they…
Autumn is a BEAUTIFUL time of year for crafting with nature. There are so many Nature Crafts for Autumn out there to be inspired by and it is a wonderful time of year to get the kids involved in collecting and making. Using nature to craft with is wonderful on so many ways – the kids get…
Welcome back to our bi monthly Kids Get Arty project! This month we looked at Joan Miró and in particularly Joan Miró’s sculptures. It was inspired by a visit to The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, who had a small Joan Miró sculpture that the kids and I adored. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to take a photo of it…
Last year, we went through a “spate” of making our own wrapping paper (we also have a great set of Gift Box DIYs and DIY Greeting Cards for Kids to Make). It was partly due to the fact, that we had RUN OUT of wrapping paper, but also because I thought it would be fun to…
Welcome back to our little creative challenges, getting you and your kids to do more creative, but easy and open ended projects. The idea behind “Daily Creativity“, is that you nurture you child’s creativity, with simple projects, requiring little set up time from you, as well as little intervention (just make sure they don’t eat…
You may have seen some of our “Daily Creativity” posts before – they are simple posts showing different but VERY SIMPLE ways that you can nurture and develop the creativity in your children. The idea is to do things regularly – but simple. So that you don’t tear your hair out worrying about “set up”…
Recently Netmums challenged us to get crafty with Cereal Box crafts. I love cereal box crafts ANYWAY, as it is such a free and versatile material and the timing was good, was I was thinking about a fairy wing craft for Pip Squeak anyway. Bring the two together and you have these lovely Cereal Box…
Feature walls are a fantastic way of revamping a room without having to decorate all four walls. Not only does it save a lot of time and effort, it also saves money and can look super stylish when done the right way. There are various methods that can be applied when creating a feature wall….
Easy NATURE Summer Arts and Crafts for Preschoolers. We do LOVE easy Summer Crafts for Preschoolers and today have another preschool summer art project for you. This compliments our previous Four Season Nature activities, If you have been reading my blog for a while, you will know, that I love exploring the four seasons with my…
Monsters Inc Fever Contiues… as those cuddly and lovable characters, Mike and Sulley, hit the big screens again, we are all in Mike & Sulley Craft excitement! We have already made a Sulley Pinata and and some Monsters Inc Finger Puppets, now we wanted to share our Sulley Pom Pom Craft! Simple and fun! Materials:…
