Fab Mums

Yesterday we made our first Easter card. I got the inspiration from allaboutyou, which is a great source for simple kids’ crafts.
All you need to make the card is blue card or thick paper, green paper, an old paper bag, cotton wool, glue, colouring pens or paints and brushes.
I like the kind of craft where [...]

Our passion for crafts has made my son’s room eclectic to say the least. There is nothing I dislike more than a perfect kid’s room that looks like it has just come out of a showroom. Mix and match is definitely the route I like to take and with so many fun products on the [...]

After raving about cardboard furniture, playhouses and rockets, rocking horses and even cots it is the time of the cardboard feeding chair. Designers’ trend is going green as more and more parents become environment aware and demand products that are safe for their children and the planet so it is hardly shocking that such a [...]

If your child is an avid comics’ reader, then you are probably wondering what to do with all that precious paper piling up on the bookshelves. Well, I know one thing for sure comics or not we keep running out of room on the bookshelves so we need to add more shelves to cope with [...]

For our fourth and final post in the Todd Oldham’s kid Made Modern series we picked the storage wheel inspired by Ray and Charles Eames. This is a very enjoyable project especially because we used only materials we had in the house and we came up with a finished product that is actually useful. On [...]

When it comes to educating children about recycling there is no better way than a playful environment, which can be paired with a reward system to keep the interest going. I have posted before about the initiative in place at my son’s school about Capitan Eco point system for recycling, a very clever initiative that [...]

This is the third part of a four-post series about crafts inspired by Todd Oldham’s book, Kid Made Modern published by Ammo Books. The previous two posts featured a cork effect vase and wooden spoon dolls. This week we made a cushion out of an old cotton sheet, which we hand printed with potato stamps.  [...]