Next one up to decorate the house this Halloween, some good old fashioned hand painting! These are so simple, but so much fun and let’s face it, kids love to get their hands dirty! These can be done as art like this, or cut out and hung around the house. Ghost and Spider Handprint Halloween [...]
Cute Q-tip Halloween Ghosts
Posted by on October 15, 2012 Leave a Comment
Oh dear I’ve been AWOL due to illness and I’m falling behind on my Halloween craft countdown. There’s still a good many days left to get some craft done, so here’s another simple but very effective craft for Halloween. Q-tip Skeleton | All Free Crafts
Toilet Roll Wall Art
Posted by on August 4, 2012 Leave a Comment
Whilst I was cutting the toilet roll into 5 for the Olympic Rings, I was reminded of a project that I’ve seen on Pinterest. The kids arranged the “rings” slightly differently and made flowers and it just shows how easy it is to do this project. The rings could be painted to give it that [...]
Olympic Rings
Posted by on August 3, 2012 Leave a Comment
We are continuing the theme of the Olympics and have been learning all about the history of the Games and the countries that are taking part. They’ve made a booklet of all the facts they found, word searches and colouring pages they did and they also each picked an athlete to research. We’ve been doing [...]
Time for the Olympics 2012!
Posted by on July 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
Not sure if you’ve heard or not but today is the start of the 2012 Olympics in London! As a homeschool family, occasions like these always bring a welcome fun project or theme to learning. To get into the spirit of things we wanted to have a fun day to mark the start of the [...]
Cardboard Loom Beermats
Posted by on July 13, 2012 Leave a Comment
My ten year old daughter has a new fad for all things crochet and knitted and wanted to make her dad a present for his Birthday. She came up with this idea of making something to help soak up the water puddled from his bottle of beer. As she has only just started on her [...]
