Can you guess what it is?
I am busy working away making my Christmas presents but as most of my family read my blog, I don’t want to spoil the surprise for them! So we’re going to have to play a little game of ‘Guess what I’ve been making’ and I will reveal what they are after Christmas. So first up...
Christmas crafting and Oxfam
In the past I have been guilty of spending far too much on Christmas presents to the point where the girls have still been unwrapping them a few days after Christmas! Over the past couple of years though, I have decided to go for a much simpler approach and use my crafting talents to make...
Autumn Leaves
My Mum gave Grace a couple of lovely Autumn craft kits for her birthday. This one contained lots of leaf shapes, which you scratched with a stick to reveal the colours underneath and make lots of pretty patterns. It reminded me of those pictures you make where you colour over the top with a black...
Witch Craft
I’m sure it hasn’t escaped your attention that there is nothing I like better than a good bit of crafting and cooking, and what better time for crafty activities than Halloween?! So I was really excited to receive a review copy of this book – Witch Craft, compiled by Margaret McGuire and Alicia Kachmar. It...
Mega Bloks
After reading about the Mega Bloks competition on Who’s The Mummy?, Grace was itching to get creating. She grabbed Faith’s bag of Mega Bloks and started trying out ideas, eventually settling on this as her final design: Apparently it is a town with a car on the road at the front. The white block on...
Spoon People
Once Faith latches onto a craft activity that she enjoys we have to spend at least the following week doing just that! This week it has been decorating wooden spoons and paper plates to make spoon people and masks. It’s a great activity to do with pre-schoolers as it is fairly cheap and they can...
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