Our craft this week is a file container to store the messages we write for every day in December. You can read the post about how we are using last year’s advent calendar this …

The theme for the Friday Carnival over at Notes from Home this week is Advent, so I thought it would the perfect opportunity to bring up the lovely advent calendar I made last year. To …

Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson is still one of my son’s favourite books. The colourful illustrations and the engaging story of a little monkey lost who is trying to find his mum with the …

My son was so excited last year when he received a video message from Santa himself. What made it even more special was that Santa not only knew his name and where he lived, but …

When Only Dads, a support website for single dads was approached to decorate a large Christmas tree in the Dartington Hall Trust, Bob Greig, the single father behind this great organization came up with the …

The theme for this month’s Get Crafty is white. To some people white might be plain, but to a lot of us white is stylish and beautiful that’s why we made these lovely Christmas cards. …

It is competition time here at Fabmums for you lovely readers. The Happy Puzzle Company has generously offered this wonderful game, Thinktangles (read the review), to one lucky winner.  To enter all you need …

When it comes to exposing children to another language there is nothing better than songs. Nursery rhymes are not only very popular with young kids, they are also educational and they lay the foundations for …

I would like to welcome on board my lovely new sponsor The Happy Puzzle Company, a great place to find educational games and puzzles for kids of all ages. They also organize puzzle challenge days for …

At the weekend we have been busy making our Nativity with recycled items and air dry clay. It is a little early, but we’ll be away for a week at the beginning of December so …

I have recently come across The Gallery hosted on Sticky Fingers, a weekly link up of photographs that follows a different theme every week. When I saw this week’s theme, Before & After, I immediately …

Our first Christmas decoration of the year is a candle holder made out of air dry clay. I am a huge fan of air dry clay and I have used it a lot in the …