Owls seem to be very popular at the moment and my daughters are always asking me to draw some owls to colour in. I’ve drawn or coloured quite a few owls recently and have worked out some basic shapes (and variations) to use to form the owl. I even made a colouring sheet, so...
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Maddy twizzled up a window display in pom poms and foam sheets this week to cheer up the frankly unimpressive winter weather and make it feel a little more spring like at home. Our trusty pom pom makers (coming soon to a brand new online craft shop near here are favourites with us and...
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I finally got round to finishing these little love hearts last night; rather late as a Valentine craft so I think I might start my Mother's Day crafting with them instead! At Christmas I was given mica powders to play with; these are cheap to buy on eBay, a scrapbooking material that seems to...
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Maddy’s latest make is this gorgeous pom pom dragon. Here are her words on how to make him You need red, yellow and blue acrylic yarn and some different coloured pipe cleaners plus something to make eyes; paper, felt or googly eyes will work. First make 4 medium pom poms, roughly the size...
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This week my kids and I are going to spend some time revisiting Chinese New Year and seeing what we can remember from previous times we’ve explored it. The Hama Bead patterns are old ones and have previously featured on our family blog but I thought I would pop them over here too. The...
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It's nearly time to put away the winter crafts and Christmas is long behind us but here is one craft we loved doing this year and will definitely do again. Ill write it up now and put links in shortly or it will never get done! First we cut out a snowflake from white...
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I saw this idea a year or so ago on Pinterest and will have to find the right place to credit it when I'm near a proper computer but this idea for making a Pom Pom snowball fight tickled Maddy very much when I told her about it and so she made it happen....
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A very Merry Christmas to you all. Instructions for this to follow. Made and used with permission by my lovely (very crafty!) friend Layla
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The inspiration for our felt snowflakes was the paper ones we make each year for our windows. This is such a perfect craft for kids; little ones can manage simple versions but older, more creative children can really enjoy working out what cuts will manipulate the paper into more exotic shapes. As you can...
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Since illness and panto-ing children mean we've not really started christmas here yet, we thought we would fest up a bit by celebrating winter instead. So we've jazzed up our murky foggy day with lots of snowflakes these last few days. Recently my youngest girl made a gorgeous beaded bunting strip for a friend...
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