Fabric upcycle: make a chicken door stop
September 11, 2014 – 5:55 am | No Comment

To make this chicken door stop I used the template kindly offered by Bake and Sew. I adjusted the sizes in mine to make it a little larger by adding 4 cm on each …

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Rudolph the red-nosed the reindeer for iPhones
December 22, 2010 – 7:59 am | No Comment
Rudolph the red-nosed the reindeer for iPhones

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is a favourite in our house, we love the story, the movie and the famous Christmas song so when I saw that Oceanhouse Media released an interactive eBook I just could …

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Twas The Night Before Christmas for iPhones
December 16, 2010 – 6:38 am | No Comment
Twas The Night Before Christmas for iPhones

Twas the Night Before Christmas, the classic poem by Clement Clarke Moore is available on iTunes thanks to an interactive iPhone app brought to us by Once Upon An App. You can listen to the …

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Giveaway: gifts by The Handpicked Collection
December 14, 2010 – 2:48 am | 13 Comments
Giveaway: gifts by The Handpicked Collection

I am so excited to bring you such a fabulous giveaway kindly offered by The Handpicked Collection. If you don’t know this online shop I urge you to go and take a look, it has …

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Monday crafts: hanging Christmas decoration
December 13, 2010 – 4:16 am | 3 Comments
Monday crafts: hanging Christmas decoration

Our Monday craft this week is a hanging Christmas decoration made of very thin strips of bolster wood consisting of a star, a ball and two pinecones tied in a bow. I wanted something simple …

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Giveaway: Waxidoodles & 3D modelling
December 7, 2010 – 12:26 am | 18 Comments
Giveaway: Waxidoodles & 3D modelling

We had so much fun playing with Waxidoodles at the weekend. These modeling sticks coated with wax are great for young children to make animal shapes, letters and anything they wish. They are easy to …

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Monday crafts: how to make a Christmas message holder with a cereal bar box
December 6, 2010 – 1:03 am | 2 Comments
Monday crafts: how to make a Christmas message holder with a cereal bar box

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 …

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Advent calendar: one year later
December 3, 2010 – 12:15 am | 3 Comments
Advent calendar: one year later

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 …

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Send your child a special message from Father Christmas
November 30, 2010 – 7:56 am | One Comment
Send your child a special message from Father Christmas

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 …

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Monday crafts: Rudolf the Christmas sock
November 29, 2010 – 4:39 am | 2 Comments
Monday crafts: Rudolf the Christmas sock

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 …

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Simple Christmas cards
November 27, 2010 – 6:55 am | No Comment
Simple Christmas cards

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. …

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Giveaway: win a fabulous educational game
November 26, 2010 – 4:06 am | 20 Comments
Giveaway: win a fabulous educational game

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 …

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The importance of songs in the bilingual journey from nursery rhymes to pop music
November 25, 2010 – 7:30 am | No Comment
The importance of songs in the bilingual journey from nursery rhymes to pop music

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 …

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