Lately I have been looking at kits to recycle paper to make your own as a fun activity to do with my son. There are many kits that are very affordable and that will probably …

The colouring placemats by Dwell Studio bring together the appeal of design with the practical side of an item that needs to be safe and useful at the same time. The reusable placemats made from …

My son loves baking and helping me in the kitchen so some months ago we made a jam pie. I must admit we didn’t make the pastry from scratch; it is straight out of a …

Clearing up my son’s room last week we found an old toy guitar that was well passed repair. It used to be a cute mini acoustic guitar with real chords that you could actually play, …

We are very proud of the way this dragon puppet turned out. It took a little bit of work and fine tuning but in the end we managed to put it all together into a …

When it comes to crafting people have their favourite materials, things that are always present in their art box. We are particularly fond of recycled crafts so we tend to use any junk we can …

Loo rolls are great to make characters and animals with children. We made a bee with a loo roll, acrylic paint, adhesive tape and a strip of flexible bolster wood. First we covered one of …

A for Apples is another alphabet craft from the past. Apple printing has remained one of our favourite activities and we usually revisit in autumn when the abundance of the seasonal fruit fills us with …

This is a craft from the past, back when my son was learning the alphabet. In one of my few attempts to put some order in the piles of stuff we have accumulated during years …

Shoe boxes are fantastic to craft. With a little imagination you can make anything out of boxes and we have. Among the rest we made bookshelves, storage boxes of many shapes and sizes and a …

We love making things out of stuff around us. Working out how to connect things together is part of the fun, but often glue and tape are just not enough to convert your idea into …

Today I have a nice little recycling project that turned out to be a functional toy.  I am in recycling juice cartons mode at the moment so I decided to make a dumper truck from …