Category: Kid’s Crafts
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Could you give a REAL Fairy a Home?
My Own Fairy Door – Review “Everything you can imagine is real.” – Picasso I absolutely love these Fairy Doors, put them inside our outside and invite a fairy to come and live with you. I’m all up for anything that stimulates imagination, encourages creative play and promotes writing. I’ve just survived the school holidays…
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Christmas Garland Made from Recycled Cards
How to Recycle your Christmas Cards I have mixed feelings about Christmas Cards. On one hand I love hearing from old friends, but they quickly begin to take over all the surfaces in the house. This year with a bit of blue tac I managed to keep on top of them. Shortly after Christmas, that…
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The Loss of Innocence at Halloween
We were just baking some Halloween Biscuits? It such a shame that as adults we lose our sense of innocence as we’re sharpened by experience and shaped by reality. I was baking with my daughter this afternoon, a sure sign that Half-term has broken me, as I find baking incredibly stressful. ‘Don’t get shells in…
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 – Tears and laughter!
At what age do children show empathy? To give myself a bit of a break on the weekend, I’d checked the weather report and it looked grim, so I booked my daughter and hubby into the Cinema to see How to Train Your Dragon 2. She’d watched the first one and has also watched How…
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How to teach your kids how to sew….
Call in the experts My 6 year old daughter has really taken to sewing. This is definitely not something that she got from me. I can sew a button on, took home economics in high-school but would be more likely to throw something out before I mended it. The last time I tried to wind…