• Colour Your Own Christmas Bunting activity for kids
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    {Free} Colour Your Own Christmas Bunting activity for kids

    November 30, 2019 - By 

    We’re so excited and ready for Advent tomorrow. Advent is the start of Christmas for us. We’re ready with our home-made advent calendars and I can’t wait to see the children’s reaction when they see their personalised advent calendars. My children are super excited for the start of Advent as not only do they get an advent calendar (or two!) but our house elves will arrive and get up to lots of mischief. I love coming up with ideas to keep my children busy at this time of year and enjoyed creating our colour your own Christmas bunting. Colour Your…

  • Gingerbread playgdough mats
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    {Free printable} Gingerbread playdough mats

    November 29, 2019 - By 

    We’re always on the lookout for seasonal activity to keep the children busy at this time of year. It’s getting dark by the time we get home from school so it’s nice to close the shutters and get together to craft round the table. You know that we love the smell of gingerbread all year round, it’s not just for Christmas you know! We’ve incorporated gingerbread into so many crafts and activities over the years. It’s difficult to say which are our favourite gingerbread crafts although our gingerbread playdough recipe is something that gets used again and again. Playdough is…

  • Christmas gnome painted rocks
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    Christmas gnome painted rocks

    November 26, 2019 - By 

    We spent our honeymoon exploring Scandinavia. We loved Denmark, Sweden and Norway and hope we can go back one day. As well as lots of happy memories we came back with quite a few souvenirs from the different cities we visited, many of which were scandinavian gnomes, also known as tomtes or nisse. A tomte is a mythological creature from Scandinavian folklore, typically associated with the winter solstice and the Christmas season. As our honeymoon took place in late October it probably wasn’t surprising that the shops were full of these little creatures! We’ve faithfully put them out each year…

  • How to make an origami poppy wreath
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    How to make an origami poppy wreath

    November 9, 2019 - By 

    On Sunday we will be marking Remembrance Sunday here in the UK, which falls on the second Sunday in November. Remembrance Day marks the day the First First World War ended, at 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month, in 1918. A two-minute silence is held at 11am to remember the people who have died in wars. Although the children learn about Remembrance Day at school I think it is important to talk about it at home too. My Great Uncle died in the First World War so we look at photographs and talk about him at this time of year. Over the…

  • {Free printable} Santa's Workshop Lego Challenge
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    {Free printable} Santa’s Workshop Lego Challenge

    November 8, 2019 - By 

    My children are full of the Christmas spirit. They have designed their own Christmas cards at school, been practicing for their Christmas assemblies and  keep changing their minds about what to put on their Christmas lists. It’s really exciting to see Christmas through their eyes. Both my children (and us adults!) love Lego. This year we added the Lego Gingerbread House to our collection, and soon it will be time to get our other Christmas Lego sets out. It’s just not Christmas without Lego! {Free printable} Santa’s Workshop Lego Challenge I have a free gift for all my readers today,…

  • 12+ Turkey Crafts for kids
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    12+ Turkey Crafts for kids

    November 2, 2019 - By 

    We love the month of November as it’s my daughters birthday! She’s super excited and has been counting down the days for a while. Her birthday falls on the same day that Thanksgiving is celebrated so I thought it would be fun to pull together a round up on Thanksgiving Turkey crafts for kids. Since 1939 Thanksgiving has been celebrated as a federal holiday, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. We’ve already shared a few fun Thanksgiving crafts, including our Rolo Turkey Pretzels treats and our Pilgrim Hat cookies.  These make great treats if you are having guests over…

  • Pool Noodle Halloween Craft for Kids
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    Pool Noodle Halloween Craft for Kids

    October 22, 2019 - By 

    With 10 days until Halloween we couldn’t resist another cute Halloween craft for kids. It’s often the simplest product that influences our crafts and todays couldn’t be simpler – colourful pool noodles, the kind the kids use to learn to swim! They are so easy to get hold of and are fun to transform into spooky and cute decorations for Halloween! Pool Noodle Halloween character supplies: Pool Noodles – Orange, Black, Purple and Green Googly Eyes Pipe cleaners – Silver, Purple and Green Craft Foam – Black, Green, White, Purple, Orange and Brown Sharp Kitchen Knife Low Temp Glue Gun…

  • Halloween Haunted House colouring activity for kids
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    {Free printable} Halloween Haunted House colouring activity for kids

    October 19, 2019 - By 

    Now the children and I have broken up for the half term holiday I feel that we can really start getting excited about Halloween. We’ve already been to a pumpkin patch to pick our pumpkins, we’ve decorated them, and have made a fabulous display. Halloween Haunted House colouring activity for kids I have a few more Halloween crafts and activities to share which will help the kids to celebrate the spookiest of seasons. It’s one of our favourites times of year (after Christmas, of course!), and my kids have been super creative turning everything from oranges to cardboard tubes into…

  • Cute and easy pumpkin decorations with Cricut
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    Cute and easy pumpkin decorations with Cricut

    October 17, 2019 - By 

    We love pumpkins! We have a whole display of them, thanks to our recent pumpkin patch visit. A few years ago we decorated our pumpkins without carving them. Instead of traditional carving we used washi tape and googly eyes and it was FUN! This year we wanted to try something a little different using the Cricut Maker. This simple cutting machine has really changed the way we craft at home! Pumpkin decoration supplies: Cricut Maker Cricut vinyl Cricut Standard Grip Mat Cricut Transfer Tape Cricut Weeder and Scraper Polar Bear Pumpkin (picked at the Pop Up Farm) Cute and easy pumpkin…