We’ve started making Christmas cards. Youngest wanted to draw a dachshund wearing a Christmas hat. First few attempts frustrated him, so he asked if I’d print one out for him. No. Try tracing and transferring it. This was new to him. I explained that when I was his age, we […]
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Ways to celebrate May Day
Almost May Day. One of my favourite holidays. The nearest Monday to May Day is a Bank holiday in the UK. I’ve been mulling over how to celebrate May Day, this year. Last year we made a maypole cake. Using jelly babies as the dancers. I’m pretty sure that the […]
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Candlemas and Badgers
Sometimes two craft ideas collide. One is a sample to take into school for a Candlemas craft activity. The other idea uses felting. I started off using the classic tissue paper glued onto a jam jar. I used a battery tealight to test the effect of the light through the […]
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Celebrating the season with cake
So. I had three activities lined up to celebrate the halfway point of Winter. Hardly surprising that it was the edible one that caught the children’s imagination. The one we’ve done before. Youngest even rushed out to the hen house to collect the eggs we needed. There was talk of […]
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