These watercolour picture frames are easy to make, and combined with a hand drawn portrait or picture they are the perfect kid-made gift that friends and family will love! .Get crafty with the kids and make this watercolor photo frame craft for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, a birthday present or Christmas! This water colour […]
Ice Painting
It was hot here last week, and as I was filling the ice block trays for the eleventy hundredth time a little idea popped into my head. I got out the food colouring and dropped some colour into each ice block, then popped them in the freezer. The next day we donned aprons, found paper […]
Magic Painting!
When your sisters have gone to do something special without you, there needs to be some sort of fabulousness at home to even the score. On this occasion fabulousness for a three and a half year old was painting, but not just any kind of painting…. magic painting! Stuff we used.. An old wax candle […]
Stamping?
When I suggested that he might like to do some stamping, Muski jumped up excitedly and began to stamp his gum-booted feet loudly around the room! “Not that kind of stamping… ” I giggled. “Well what kind of stamping then?” He asked crossly. “The kind you do with those animal stamps we got from Eco […]
We Play – Tying Shoe Laces
It seems we have come to that point in time when I can avoid it no longer. The only pair of pink sneakers in a size big enough to fit Izzy have shoe laces. Yes, laces… not velcro, not stretchy elastic things, but real, need to be tied, laces. Now I have to teach Izzy […]
A Fairy Story
The Fairy Concert – by Zoe. Once apon a time, a long long time ago, in a valley, far, far away there lived some fairies. Some of the fairies were Sun Fairies and they liked to dance in the sunshine. Some of the fairies were Shadow fairies and they liked to dance under the moon […]
Online resources for kids.
My kids generally have very limited access to the internet, both through circumstances (crappy country net access) and my personal views on kids and technology and boundaries we’ve set. But with the school holidays almost upon us, winter weather keeping us inside more and the uncertainty of exactly when this baby will arrive making big […]
We Play.. and Sing Car Songs!
Joining in with Childhood101’s We Play series today. ‘Car World’ was recently constructed in my living room…. At first it was just a line up of cars, then it became some roads, then a bridge which, with the return of the Big Girls from school, turned into a ramp that flew cars off the table […]