• Crafts for toddlers to celebrate The Queen's Platinum Jubilee
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    Crafts for toddlers to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

    March 9, 2022 - By 

    We are so excited to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022. I’m sure we will be attending a few parties and events in London to celebrate her reaching this milestone. I thought it would be fun to pull together some crafts for toddlers to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee too! Nine crafts for toddlers to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Gingerbread crowns for Three Kings Day – these yummy gingerbread crowns were originally baked for Three Kings Day, also known as Twelfth Night, but will be just as good to help celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s wonderful crown. How to make…

  • Recycled wooden pallet union flag
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    Recycled wooden pallet union flag

    May 5, 2020 - By 

    An invitation to a socially distanced VE Day Street Party popped through our letterbox last week and it was just the reason I needed to create something big. For the last few weeks we’ve had a huge painted rainbow outside our house. We have a window full of rainbows but created a huuuuge rainbow especially for our neighbour who works for the London Ambulance Service. The rainbow isn’t going anywhere but I thought it would be fun to recycle a wooden pallet to make a union flag to display outside our house when we celebrate the anniversary of VE Day…

  • Celebrating the Royal Wedding {with Mrs Mactivity Royal Wedding crafts}
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    Celebrating the Royal Wedding {with Mrs Mactivity Royal Wedding crafts}

    May 17, 2018 - By 

    Are you celebrating the Royal Wedding on Saturday? If so, how? I really wish it was taking place during the week so we could all have an extra day off! However both children are doing something special at school. My Year 3 boy was having a Royal tea party at school today, and my Year 1 daughter has been buys making a crown which they were all wearing to lunch. Both of them had to wear something red, white or blue to wear too. We had a little tea party at home to watch the last Royal Wedding and I’m…

  • Royal Wedding craft stick union flag craft
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    Royal Wedding craft stick union flag craft

    May 13, 2018 - By 

    We’re looking forward to the Royal Wedding next week. I’m not sure if we’re going to stay in to watch it on the television but the children are super excited for their Royal Wedding activities at school. I’ve already written a post on Royal Wedding crafts for children. It’s proving very popular and has been my most popular post for the last few weeks. I love that people like our Royal Wedding craft activities for children and we managed to make one more Royal Wedding craft for kids to make – a craft stick union flag which would also be…

  • 10 Royal Wedding crafts
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    10 Royal Wedding crafts fit for a Prince and Princess

    April 19, 2018 - By 

    Can I admit I’m a little excited about the upcoming Royal Wedding? It doesn’t seem that long ago since we witnessed the wedding of Prince William and Catherine but it was actually the 29th April 2011. We had fun recreating a favourite family photo of mine. Definitely time to start getting excited about Prince Harry finally tying the knot with Meghan Markle. I have fond memories of watching Princess Diana getting married back in 1981. Did we have the day off school to watch it? I can’t remember but I do remember the souvenirs in all the newspapers, the commemorative…

  • crafts for kids to celebrate the Queen's Sapphire Jubilee
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    10 crafts for kids to celebrate the Queen’s Sapphire Jubilee

    March 8, 2017 - By 

    Last month, on February 6, the anniversary of the day she became Queen, Elizabeth II has reigned for 65 years. She is the first British monarch to reach their Sapphire Jubilee, with royal gun salutes to mark the historic day. I heard some rumours that we might be getting a public holiday this year to celebrate her Sapphire Jubilee. This would be great for the children. I don’t remember celebrating the Queen’s Silver Jubilee back in 1977 as I was too young but it’s always fun to create memories at special occasions. The Royal Mint is marking the 65th anniversary with…

  • How to make Union flag bunting
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    How to make Union flag bunting

    June 10, 2016 - By 

    With The Queen’s official birthday celebrations taking place over the next few days in London, I thought I would make some special Union flag inspired bunting. How to make Union flag bunting I used the Sizzix Bigz Plus Die – Bunting (661173) which features two different bunting flag shapes, and Limited Edition Union Flag (Union Jack) Duck Tape. I love crafting with Duck Tape and this is a great way to make some bunting which should last through the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations, Euro 2016, Wimbledon and the Olympics. You can find my full tutorial over on the Sizzix blog today. You may…

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    A card fit for a Queen

    June 5, 2012 - By 

    One of my favourite press cuttings, yes I’m old, is of me and my school friends with a card we made and sent to Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer when they got married in 1981. Hey, we got our picture in the paper, my first taste of ‘fame’! Also in the family archive is a photograph of me and my sister sitting on the front wall of our old house. The wall had been painted for the Queen’s Jubilee in 1977 and my mum had stuck a poster up in the front window for the Royal Wedding. We were…

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    Sew, Mama, Sew fabric giveaway

    May 22, 2011 - By 

    I thought I would participate in the Sew, Mama, Sew May Giveaway Day 2011. Up for grabs I have one metre of Royal Wedding fabric which I bought from my favourite department store, John Lewis. The fabric was produced to commemorate the wedding of Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton on Friday 29th 2011. I was going to make something commemorative for the Royal Wedding but never got round to it. Rather than leave it sitting in my fabric drawer I thought I would offer it to someone who might actually use it! It would make lovely summery bunting, a…