Category: Kid’s Crafts

  • Could you give a REAL Fairy a Home?

    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…

  • Christmas Garland Made from Recycled Cards

    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…

  • The Loss of Innocence at Halloween

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…