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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Christmas recycled crafts: cardboard stars decorations
December 15, 2011 – 6:56 am | No Comment
Christmas recycled crafts: cardboard stars decorations

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 …

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Gift ideas under 10 pounds for boys
December 9, 2011 – 3:45 am | No Comment
Gift ideas under 10 pounds for boys

This old style blow football game is the perfect stocking filler for young boys. Each box contains two cardboard goalies, pitch, blow football and straws. Move the ball by blowing through the straw instead of …

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Sleep over with dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum
December 2, 2011 – 2:56 am | No Comment
Sleep over with dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum

Kids love sleepovers and they love dinosaurs so a sleepover with dinos at the museum sounds like the perfect treat for 8 to 11 year olds. The Natural History Museums organises monthly sleepovers for kids …

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Loo roll reindeer and Santa Claus
November 18, 2011 – 2:50 am | 4 Comments
Loo roll reindeer and Santa Claus

Meet the loo roll Father Christmas and his reindeer with Rudolph leading the pack. This is a very quick craft that we intend to use for our festive animation series. To make the reindeer you …

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Nativity picks from Etsy
November 15, 2011 – 6:49 am | No Comment
Nativity picks from Etsy

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 …

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Magazine pages Christmas tree
November 9, 2011 – 6:25 am | 2 Comments
Magazine pages Christmas tree

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. …

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Sesame Street Once Upon a Monster on Kinect for XBOX 360
November 3, 2011 – 7:01 am | One Comment
Sesame Street Once Upon a Monster on Kinect for XBOX 360

Supporting creative play does not make me a mother who is completely against modern gadgets and electronic games. I believe all good things in moderation is often the answer, depriving children of something completely would …

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Halloween snakes and ladders
October 31, 2011 – 8:27 am | No Comment
Halloween snakes and ladders

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 …

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Halloween crafts: Frankenstein lantern
October 25, 2011 – 3:44 am | 2 Comments
Halloween crafts: Frankenstein lantern

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 …

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Teddy Bear Picnics at IKEA stores across the UK on October 26th
October 18, 2011 – 1:39 am | No Comment
Teddy Bear Picnics at IKEA stores across the UK on October 26th

Every year IKEA gets together with UNICEF and Save the Children to raise money for children in need and enable them to access quality education with the Soft Toy Campaign. For every soft toy, kid’s meal …

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Halloween crafts: ghost puppets
October 17, 2011 – 5:14 am | 5 Comments
Halloween crafts: ghost puppets

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 …

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Halloween crafts: how to turn a detergent container into a pumpkin
October 11, 2011 – 2:38 am | 2 Comments
Halloween crafts: how to turn a detergent container into a pumpkin

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 …

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