• Miffy sun catchers - the gingerbread house
    Kids crafts - tutorial

    Miffy sun catchers

    April 24, 2015 - By 

    You know we’re huge fans of Miffy and we love to make sun catchers so today we’re sharing our really easy Miffy sun catcher craft. Everyone knows that Miffy loves to wear a pretty dress, like the ones in Miffy’s birthday book. Reading it totally inspired us to make Miffy a new colourful wardrobe. Equipment needed to make Miffy sun catchers: Printed image of Miffy (we found ours here) Coloured cellophane sheets Sticky tape Scissors Bakers twine How to make Miffy sun catchers I printed 6 pictures of Miffy and carefully cut out her dress. We chose as many pieces…

  • kid friendly fairy garden made with a milk bottle from the gingerbread house
    Fairy garden crafts - Kids crafts - Recycled crafts - tutorial - upcycling

    Recycled milk bottle fairy garden

    April 18, 2015 - By 

    You can tell my son has gone back to school after the Easter holidays as my daughter and I have been spending a lot of time crafting together. Yesterday afternoon we looked through our recycling to see what we could use to make a fairy garden. I’ve seen some amazing fairy garden ideas on Pinterest (check out my outdoor play board for some ideas) but let’s be honest, I don’t think many of them are made by or for children! Today we’ve made a really simple fairy garden, child-friendly, achievable and I’d love to know if it inspires you! Equipment…

  • Tinkerbell play dough - the gingerbread house
    Kids crafts - tutorial

    Recipe for Tinkerbell play dough

    April 16, 2015 - By 

    My 3 year old loves Tinkerbell and we’re really excited about the release of Tinkerbell and the NeverBeast on DVD on Monday 20th. It’s a long time since we saw it at the cinema and we’re looking forward to taking part in a home viewing party to celebrate its release. Both my children love playing with play dough so I thought we should make some Tinkerbell inspired play dough. I used my never fail recipe with a little sprinkle of pixie dust. Tinkerbell play dough recipe: 150g plain flour 100g salt 2 tsp. cream of tartar 2 tbsp. vegetable oil…

  • mud cakes from the mud kitchen - the gingerbread house
    Crafts for kids - Kids crafts - Nature crafts

    Making mud cakes in our mud kitchen

    April 15, 2015 - By 

    We seem to be experiencing a mini-heatwave in the UK today which meant we have spent most of the day outdoors. My 3 year old loves playing fairies so we thought we would add to our fairy garden. So far we’ve built a fairy house in the garden, made a painted stone fairy door for a fairy house and painted pebble animals to live in the fairy garden. Today we had some messy sensory fun, making proper mud cakes for the fairies, in our tuff spot mud kitchen. Setting up a tuff spot mud kitchen It was really easy to…

  • Cath Kidston - sewing - tutorial - upcycling

    How to upcycle a Cath Kidston skirt into a cushion

    April 14, 2015 - By 

    A couple of week ago I treated myself to this gorgeous Cath Kidston skirt in my very favourite print – London buses. I adore this print but sadly the skirt didn’t look so great on. I wanted to keep the skirt so decided to re-fashion it into a cushion. I’m trying to have a London theme for our living room with my vintage London bus blind and vintage London bus collection. How to upcycle a Cath Kidston skirt into a cushion: First I removed the elasticated waist band and unpicked the hem to stretch out the amount of fabric. I…

  • Easter KINDER Surprise wreath
    Crafts for kids - Easter - Kids crafts - Pinned it made it - Recycled crafts

    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…

  • How to make Duck Tape Easter Eggs
    Crafts for kids - Duck Tape crafts - Easter - Kids crafts - tutorial

    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…

  • easy chalkboard Easter eggs
    Crafts for adults - Easter - tutorial

    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…

  • painting using food - the gingerbread house
    Easter - Kids crafts - tutorial

    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…