Articles in Holidays
I am very excited about the transformation of this used envelope into a Christmas gift carrier. To make this Christmas gift pouch you need a used bubble envelope, Christmas wrapping paper cuttings, glue, scissors, a …
Every year we make new Christmas decorations to hang around the house. This year we made some hanging stars cut out of discarded cardboard boxes, which we painted silver on one side and gold on …
These unusual Nativities in the picture are our picks from the Etsy collection. The Christmas Nativity blocks are great for kids to handle and play with. The 14 pieces have been sanded, antiqued and finished …
Crafting with junk is one of my favourite ways to get creative and when it comes to recycling I am partial to magazine pages. In the past we made coasters, table mats and napkin rings. …
Snakes and ladders is one of our favourite games so we often adapt it to special themes and Halloween seemed like the perfect occasion to slightly modify it. Our haunted snakes and ladders is very …
To complete our homemade set of Halloween lights this year we made a Frankenstein lantern to join the pumpkin and vampire from last year. Only this time instead of painting the jars we opted for …
This is probably the easiest craft we have ever done, yet it is so effective. All you need to make these ghosts are white paper bags, black marker and a pair of scissors. Draw the …
Pumpkins are not readily available where we are so this year we turned a washing powder container into our jack’ o’ lantern. The process was fun and the skill necessary is definitely less much less …
The fun is on at Kew this Easter with lots of activities for families. All week you can admire the chocolate sculptures on display and take part in the chocolate workshops where kids will learn …
I love wooden blocks so for our weekly craft this week we have made a six sided Christmas puzzle with six cubes. Instead of buying the already made cubes ready to decorate I bought a …
The theme for the Friday Carnival over at Notes From Home this week is Christmas so I thought to share the alphabet poem we made using only Christmas words, which we then illustrated by painting the tree …
