Road trips, school Christmas plays, waiting for relatives to arrive, waiting for Christmas dinner to be served… There is often a lot of waiting associated with Christmas if you are a kid. And waiting is boring, unless you have something fun to do. To make all the waiting a little more bearable for the kids […]
My House Drawing Prompt – free printable
Sometimes you just need a little inspiration, a little prompt, just to get you started. “What will your house look like?” “Who will live in it?” “What colour will you paint it?” A few open questions and this fun My House drawing prompt and the creativity started flowing. We had so much fun with this […]
Free Printable Drawing Challenge Cards
This post is sponsored by Toyota. My kids love to draw. They love sitting down and filling a page with ideas and imaginings. And I love that my kids love to draw because it is an easy, low mess, quiet activity that often saves me from losing my mind! So I’ve taken advantage of those […]
Hopes and Dreams Drawing Prompt
This activity started out as a vision board for me. I was mucking around drawing and writing some hopes and dreams and ideas I had for the year ahead when my kid noticed and wanted to do on too. My 12 year old twins took up the idea and ran with it, filling their paper […]
Dreaming about Tomorrowland – Writing & Drawing Prompts
This post is sponsored by Disney’s Tomorrowland. Every school holidays we plan a family movie night, but it’s not always successful, and sometimes it is a total disaster. I have four kids, aged 5 – 11, and it is not easy finding a movie that everyone wants to watch. It can’t be too scary, or […]
Word Drawing
It started out as an easy name activity to keep the four year old entertained and not ‘ruining the big kid’s lives’, but after a few minutes the seven year old asked to join in and within half an hour all four kids were involved and the table was covered with word drawings. All you […]
Pasta Drawing Prompts
Dark gloomy days call for crazy fun activities don’t you think? On the weekend we broke up the miserably grey days with a very silly pasta drawing prompt! Inspired by the Rockin’ Art Moms (a fabulous group of arty bloggers), who issued a macaroni challenge, I challenged my kids to use a variety of pasta […]
Sea Drawing Prompts
If you follow me on instagram you probably already know that we are having a bit of a holiday in Tasmania! Tasmania is the island at the bottom of Australia and to get there were traveled overnight on a ship! The kids were super excited about this big adventure. None of us have ever been […]