Valentine Craft, Love Heart Door Hanger.
We made 2 different variations of valentine door hangers, but both styles use the same materials. The hearts are made from salt dough, the same as those DIY Christmas ornaments you see all over...
View ArticleValentine Craft, Love Heart Door Hanger Part 2
This is another variation of our earlier Valentine Door Hanger , the main difference is rather than hanging the hearts from strings, we hot glued them to a flat ribbon. The finer details can be found...
View ArticleRibbon Roses, Valentine Craft
All Tizzied Up has taught her daughters how to make these ribbon flowers just as she did when she was a kid. Very cute and pretty easy once you get the hang of it. All you need is some ribbon...
View ArticleKids Valentine Craft – Stained Glass Hearts
I was determine to do some Valentine craft today with the kids before we ran out of time. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do, but we couldn’t find the type of paper I needed. While...
View ArticleKids Valentine Craft, Love Heart Entrance – Bubble Painting.
We have done a bubble painting project before for Easter, it is so easy and the results are always cool, so we have tried it again this time just using pink. We also used some pink paper as well as...
View ArticleSoup Mix Scale Creatures, Sensory Craft
I actually stole this idea from Mr3s current favourite show, Mister Maker. We used soup mix, but you could use lots of different things, dry lentils, rice, couscous, anything that is going to give you...
View ArticleLooming Up A Storm – Our Rainbow Loom Gallery
If you have kids over the age of about 4 and you have not yet discovered Rainbow Loom, I highly recommend getting yourself… I mean THEM some. Even the boys in my house get into it. I won’t bother...
View ArticleCardboard Roll Easter Chicks – Kids Easter Craft.
I’d like to say I came up with this all on my own, but that would be a lie. Ms5 and I made some owls inspired by this post from Kerrys Craft Blog. It was from this concept that I came up with these...
View ArticleKids Craft, Easter Egg Sun Catcher / Stained Glass
Inspiration for this project came from Alpha Moms blog. I thought I’d adjust it into an Easter themed project, given it is already that time of year. All you need is some of the whitish milk or juice...
View ArticleEaster Biscuits – Kids in the Kitchen.
Much to my children’s disappointment, I am not much of a sweet tooth. So I struggle to be inspired to make sweet treats. But I figured we should do some ‘cooking’ for Easter, and this seemed simple...
View ArticleA duck walked up to a lemonade stand…
and he said to the man, running the stand ‘hey, have you got any grapes?’ Not sure if it was inspired by this or too many episodes of The Simpsons, but Mr 9 wanted to start a lemonade stand. Only a...
View ArticleFreaking 4s, aka; walking talking contraception.
It has been a really long day… week, month actually. I feel like I have 99 problems and most of them are Mr 4. I have always said 4 is the worst age, everyone talks about ‘terrible twos’,...
View ArticleChristmas Craft For Kids – Cup Cake Christmas Trees.
These are so easy to make and turned out super cute. Inspiration actually came form some fish scales I saw some students at school making. All you need is some cup cake papers, cardboard (we used an...
View ArticleSimple Christmas Card Ideas, Part 1.
Here’s a simple card decoration idea that doubles up as a fine motor activity. For all the card projects this year I am using plain black card stock. They were $2 for a pack of 12 at a $2 shop. For...
View ArticleSimple Christmas Card Ideas – Part 2
Christmas craft that doubles up as a math lesson! Hehe. This activity really doesn’t require much explanation. All you need is some paddle pop sticks, sharp scissors or secateurs, some craft glue and...
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