I’ve always wanted to try my hand at egg carton flowers – they are so bright and cheerful! The girls and I decided to make some over the school holidays and we used them to decorate egg carton jewellery boxes. You could use these boxes to store any small knick-knacks and collections (think crystals, shells, loom bands…
My kids still love play dough, so I am often experimenting with different recipes to make the experience a little bit different for them. This dough uses fresh blueberries to give it a bright purple colour. I know, I know, they are a pricey fruit and we usually only have them as a treat, so isn’t that…
Miss K, at age 5, is still very fond of her toy kitchen. She has lots of pretend food to cook, such as rock cakes, toilet roll fish and even the glitter sponge cakes we made a long time ago are still going strong. Sometimes she doesn’t even need food that looks real, ordinary round seed pods become chocolate…
I’m thrilled to be sharing a new ebook with you that is a collaborative project between little old me and 18 of the best and most creative craft bloggers out there. Honestly, I’ve been a bit starstruck by the company I’ve had the privilege to work with on this one, and am really very proud to be a…
We love hand made crackers at our place. We make them for Christmas every year, and have also made them for birthdays as well. In this post that I wrote for Childhood 101 I’ll show you how these sparkly gold and silver Christmas crackers can become New Year’s Eve crackers with a few simple changes. I’ll…
If you like a craft activity that is just easy and doesn’t require too much thought, mess and effort then this one is for you. We used the basic loom band finger weaving technique to create some colourful wreath ornaments with hair elastics. My girls (aged 5 and 6) had no problem making these mostly by…
Create some simple, decorative yarn star ornaments for Christmas. This is an easy, eco-friendly Christmas craft for kids using basic materials you most likely have at home (yarn, and sticks from the garden!). You might also like our yarn wreath ornaments These Christmas yarn star ornaments can be made with small or large sticks depending…
Recently we created some sparkly wax gems as a science activity inspired by the popular lava lamp experiment. We have not actually made a ‘lava lamp’ but there is a great version of it here at Racheous Lovable Learning. This is a different activity inspired by that same experiment, and is very quick, easy and interesting for…
Have fun getting messy with this Dinosaurs in sticky mud sensory play activity. Chocolate-scented oobleck (also known as goo) combined with plastic dinosaurs in their own small world will keep kids entertained with sensory and imaginative play in one. I have been a long-time fan of Asia Citro’s blog Fun at Home With Kids. Her…