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    How to make Easter egg and marshmallow popcorn

    April 12, 2015 - By 

    I love to re-use and upcycle the children’s toys. This year we’ve ended up with a few of the large plastic Playmobil Easter eggs and I really wanted to give them a new life. We used a few Playmobil eggs as containers to grow cress in which was fun (and lovely to eat something we had grown ourselves). Today I’m going to show you how to upcycle a Playmobil Easter egg to make simple Easter egg and Marshmallow popcorn – a perfect way to use up leftover Easter eggs! Ingredients needed to make Easter egg and marshmallow popcorn 50g popcorn…

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    Free Peppa Pig Easter printables

    April 4, 2015 - By 

    I have some fun free Peppa Pig Easter printables to share with you today. These are perfect to print out and will keep your children occupied over the long weekend! You will only need simple craft materials (which you probably already have) so feel free to Pin this image and save for later. The four printables are: Peppa Pig Easter bunting to colour, cut out and hang up Peppa Pig Easter card to colour Peppa Pig Easter hat to cut out and glue Instructions on how to decorate hard-boiled eggs You can download the free Peppa Pig Easter printables here.…

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    Pinned it made it -Easter kinder surprise wreath

    April 3, 2015 - By 

    Our Easter decorations have been looking a little sparse this year. We’ve had fun making Duck Tape Easter Eggs and yesterday made a sweet Easter kinder surprise wreath which I thought I would share. I didn’t come up with myself, I found the idea on Pinterest here and made my own version. How to make an Easter kinder surprise wreath It’s super easy and all you need to make the wreath is 14 empty Kinder surprise egg shells. Then comes the fun part, take the lid of one and the base of another and pop them together. Simple! Then connect…

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    Duck Tape Easter Eggs

    April 2, 2015 - By 

    I have a large Duck Tape collection which I love to both look at and use. My children love Duck Tape too, especially when they discovered they could wear them as bracelets or hide their cars inside them. I like to actually use them for crafting and yesterday made some fun Easter decorations – Duck Tape Easter Eggs. They are pretty simple to make but worth sharing. Equipment you need to make Duck Tape Easter Eggs Duck Tape Plastic eggs Scissors How to make Duck Tape Easter Eggs We have so many plastic fillable eggs. My children are obsessed with…

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    How to make chalkboard Easter eggs

    March 31, 2015 - By 

    Earlier this month I bought a huge tin of chalkboard paint at my local DIY store. I made a magnetic Scrabble board which I keep meaning to tell you all about. There was a lot of paint leftover so I used some to make chalkboard Easter eggs. Here’s how I did it – Equipment needed to make chalkboard Easter eggs: Styrofoam eggs Chalkboard paint Brush White Spirit Chalk How to make chalkboard Easter eggs: First I painted my styrofoam eggs. This was a little tricky as they were small and slippy so I found an empty box, put four pins…

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    Monday happy things

    March 30, 2015 - By 

    This is my weekly opportunity to remember some of my highlights of the previous week and it’s been pretty busy. We really enjoyed a trip to The Art of The Brick exhibition on Brick Lane. It features over 100 models by artist Nathan Sawaya all made from Lego and was pretty inspiring. Whilst out in the West End we spotted a couple of decorated Shaun the Sheep statues. My favourite was the one sponsored by Cath Kidston near their Covent Garden store. Little Sis loved being a Princess thanks to some Disney Magic at the Cinderella exhibition we scored free…

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    Kids crafts – painting using food

    March 26, 2015 - By 

    I love to keep my little one busy and today we tried something new, painting using food! Equipment needed to paint with food: Potatoes White paper Easter themed cookie cutters Paint How to paint with food: We’ve tried painting with lots of different materials, from flowers to corks and hands. Today we used potatoes which was really fun and messy. As Easter is coming up we decided to use Easter cookie cutters and picked an Easter egg and bunny shape. I set up for my 3 year old with white paper, a couple of paint brushes, the potato shapes and…

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    Our Easter Egg Hunt Easter bonnet

    March 21, 2015 - By 

    This is the second year we’ve decorated an Easter bonnet. My daughter takes part in a fun Easter parade at her nursery, they all wear their decorated hats and do a little catwalk show. The shops are full of ribbons, little chicks, pastel shades of tissue paper and Easter bonnets. I thought I would get both of my children involved in decorating and we gathered a great haul from The Works. How to make an Easter Egg Hunt Easter bonnet The Works’ Easter crafting range includes bonnets, chicks, tissue paper, rabbit stickers, seasonal ribbons, hanging Easter decorations and much more…

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    Win an Easter bonnet decorating kit

    March 19, 2015 - By 

    A couple of weeks ago I attended the Spring Hobbycraft Press Show and picked up some great ideas for Easter decorating and baking. Today I have a fun giveaway where you can win one of two Easter bonnet decorating kits, perfect if your child is decorating an Easter bonnet or to decorate an Easter cake! image credit The delightful Easter Bonnet Embellishment Kit will enable you to keep the age old tradition alive and adorn your Easter bonnet with a plethora of springtime motifs from chicks to eggs and bunnies to flowers. You will be able to keep the children…