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As every parent knows, most young children have a knack for arts and crafts. However, parents should stop seeing these activities solely as a way to keep their children busy. Instead, they should recognize the benefits that arts and crafts can provide for their child’s development. Giving children free access to arts and crafts supplies…
This month our Bostik Blogger challenge theme was scrapbooking. After we were married, I became an avid scrapbooker and captured so any memories in huge 12″ x 12″ padded albums – but as a busy mom, it’s been too much of a challenge to keep up with it and so this blog is essentially my…
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Our homemade pot pourri is in progress – for the first time ever, we dried fruit! It was surprisingly simple. If you want to make some [and make your house smell very Christmassy indeed], all you need are the oranges, cloves, a baking tray, baking paper and an oven. Heat your oven to its lowest…
We’ve joined the Bostick Bloggers and each month we’ll be creating a little project on a theme chosen by Bostick, and sharing it with you via a tutorial. This month was Ocean themed and we had so much fun! So here’s how we created our mini ocean aquariums… Step One: Using acrylic paint, we painted…
Our Autumn leaf photo mobile is so easy to make in around ten minutes and you can change it with the seasons too! I know I’m guilty of taking so many photos and then, if they don’t make it to the blog, they just don’t get seen. With this little mobile, my boys have been…
After writing about my poor crumbling emotions whilst making felt cookies this week, we made a little tutorial to go with it. I’m awful at sewing and even I managed to make these…and what’s even better is I made 24 of them for £4! Budget friendly toys! Here we go… Step One: Cut and collect….
Oh, I love these, it really (really) is bringing the outdoors in, and such a wonderful invitation for Spring. (and yes, so pretty, and straightforward, I reckon even I could give this one a go!!).