I love hand and foot print art and Christmas cards are a great way to show how creative you can be. We have made homemade cards for a number of years now, the kids love it and it brings such personalisation to making and sending cards out. I’ll be featuring a number of these cards [...]
Spooky Halloween Ghost and Spider Prints
Posted by on October 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Halloween Egg Carton Bats
Posted by on October 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
Halloween is just around the corner and what better way to use up some of your saved egg cartons than to make these fantastic little hanging bats! They are so easy to make and look really good for hanging around the house. If you have time, you could also make the ghostly leaves shown on [...]
Autumn Leaf Print Tree Picture
Posted by on September 9, 2012 Leave a Comment
I love this time of year, when summer is over and a new season begins. Autumn (or Fall if you prefer) is just around the corner and it brings with it a multitude of ideas for crafting. One of the easiest, but most effective and beautiful, is working with leaves and paint. You can use [...]
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 [...]
Brighten Your Windows!
Posted by on July 31, 2012 Leave a Comment
As chief washer upper in this household, I spend many an hour gazing out of the kitchen window as I’m washing the pots. Now I don’t mind washing up, I find it quite therapeutic, but sometime it would be nice to have a brighter outlook! This is definitely going to be next on my project [...]
Chasing Away Bad Dreams
Posted by on July 30, 2012 Leave a Comment
As anyone with kids will know, when a child has a bad dream, it can be hard to convince them that it isn’t real. As parents, we try to limit what the children watch and how late they watch things, but no matter how good you try to be, those baddies will inevitably, sneak into [...]
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 [...]
How old is too old for paint blow painting?
Posted by on July 1, 2012 Leave a Comment
Me and the kids have spent hours and many a straw doing blow painting . I think the kids love it but i’m sure I love it just as much if not more. I came across a site the other day that reminded me of just how good it was and that I should get [...]
