Tried & Tested Products – The Round-up (June 2014) Best products of June 2014 – a bit of everything from cute things, through sweet and savoury foods, good reads, crafty sets, handy items, crafty sets to useful gadgets.
Decorated Glass Pebbles – Kids’ Craft Ideas Glass pebbles kids’ crafts ideas – tic tac toe / noughts and crosses, rings, fridge magnets and more…
Tried & Tested Products – The Round-up (May 2014) Best products of May 2014 – a bit of everything from cute gadgets, through good reads, handy items, crafty sets to useful equipment.
Reading Corner – Rast Bedside Table Makeover (Ikea Hack) Quick and easy to make reading corner for kids, no special skills required…
Ella’s Quick Apple (& Apricot) Pies – Kids’ Cooking Extremely quick and easy recipe to make with kids – puff pastry apple and apricot pies.
DIY Seaside Themed Aged Box Frame DIY tutorial – how to age wooden frame using metallic acrylic paints.
DIY Christmas Calendar Made from Upcycled Kitchen Roll Tubes Step-by-step tutorial on how to make easy, yet very pretty countdown calendar out of kitchen roll tubes.
DIY Fruity Fridge Magnets Made Out of Beads – Summer Kids’ Crafts Very easy DIY magnets made out of Hama / Ikea beads – Summer Kid’s Craft Ideas.
DIY Salt Dough Play Food – Bakery Low cost, easy to make salt dough play food for children (bakery items).
DIY Crochet Snoopy Outfit and Woodstock Toy from Peanuts for the World Book Day Crochet pattern for Snoopy’s outfit and stuffed Woodstock toy.
Kraszanki, Drapanki & Pisanki – Polish Easter Traditions Pisanki / Kraszanki / Skrobanki / Drapanki – coloured, decorated Easter eggs from Poland. Happy Spring!
Low Cost Girl’s Room Workspace – Upcycling Old Cot Bed (Ikea Hack) Ikea hack – upcycled cot bed as rails for Bygel containers, low cost kid’s workstation.
DIY Play Stove Top – Half Term Kids’ Crafts DIY alternative to large (and quite expensive to be honest) play stoves available on the market. This one is flat and lightweight so can be easily hidden away or moved around the house.
Upcycled Plastic Bottle Piggy Bank – Half Term Kid’s Crafts This is quite easy but time consuming recycled craft idea perfect for half term, it will keep kids occupied for couple of days…
Last Minute Valentine’s Day Craft – Cupid Arrow Cake Topper Even if you have forgotten about Valentine’s Day it is still not too late… you can make this topper in less than 5 minutes to decorate any cake, muffin or even doughnut :)
Decorated Plastic Drawers Units – Spring Cleaning Idea Plain, plastic drawers units decorated with cute flowery gingham paper.
DIY Birthday Parcels Card with Mulberry Paper Design MATERIALS blank card 3 colours of handmade Mulberry paper 2 pieces of thin fabric ribbon EQUIPMENT stamp & ink pad or dark marker/pen craft glue METHOD Cut out 3 rectangular pieces from the paper, one large to cover almost the whole front of the card and two smaller ones for the parcels. Stick them to […]
Stained Glass Bread Baubles – Edible Crafts Classic stained glass baubles made out of bread and boiled sweets.
Recycled Art – Old Newspaper Coaster Tutorial How to make newspaper coasters at home… very simple yet beautiful recycling art project.
Handmade Mulberry Paper Stamped Party Invitations / Cards MATERIALS square pieces of handmade Mulberry paper pieces of ribbon tied into bows square blank cards with envelopes glitter glues, we used orange and pink colourful ink (we used purple bingo dabber instead) marker – same colour as the ink craft glue EQUIPMENT large stamp for the front of the card little stamp for the back […]
DIY Mulberry Tissue Paper Moody Bedroom Lampshade – Ikea Hack DIY moody lampshade for adults bedroom – easy and low cost décor idea.
Girl’s Room Butterfly Paper Lamp Shade – Ikea Hack Paper lampshade decorated with butterflies – quick and easy DIY décor idea for girls’ room.
Matchbox Christmas Countdown Calendar / Advent Calendar Chest of drawers style countdown calendar made out of matchboxes.
Snowflake Decorations Made of Beads Quick and easy DIY Christmas decorations… can be done in 30 minutes.
Handmade Holiday Cards That Even Four Year Old Can Make Quick and easy winter holidays cards that kids can make.
Handmade Cards with Tissue Paper Design Quick and easy kids’ craft idea – making tissue paper design cards.
