Raising brilliant girls!
Introducing… our cardboard box puppet theatre. Molly has been making puppets using lollypop sticks for a couple of months now. I don’t know where she got the idea from. She has gradually made a whole little family of puppets out of craft materials and a lolly pop stick. I knew the next box we got would have … Read more
When I first started to think about Christmas, I began to panic about having two toddlers who would want to tear the baubles off the tree and throw them at each other. It was bad enough when Molly was eighteen months. That year, the tree was bear of decoration until half way up where she … Read more
The first thing that we get out of the Christmas boxes when they come down from the loft are our Happyland characters and a few other winter friends. This year I wanted to make a couple of sensory boxes for the girls to play with. The first picture is a snow scene just for our … Read more
Here is our festive wrapping paper. This is an easy way to make plain brown paper a bit more festive. Molly was desperate to do this and get glitter into all the far flung corners of the house. You Will Need Glitter PVA glue Stencil Brown wrapping paper This would also make a lovely Christmas … Read more
We’ve been enjoying a bit of last minute crafting and made some Rudolph Candy Gift Boxes to put sweets inside as a last minute gift. This was such an easy craft. The only tricky bit was putting the pipe cleaners in. It would work well as a gift for a teacher or a friend and … Read more
This year I wanted to make some cards using photographs. We also spent the morning doing hand and footprints so it was a good opportunity to combine the two. I used one of my favourite pictures of Molly and we printed it out a few times to get the size right. We then stuck on … Read more
This is how we made an Angel play tent for Christmas. I had been wanting to make a tent or teepee for a while using the ball pool. I thought it would make a lovely quiet area for the girls to play in. As it was Christmas we decided to make it so the … Read more
The internet is great. You find lots of people who share your strange obsessions. I’ve been a little bit obsessed with pom poms recently (and I said POM POMS people – not anything else – I now know how your minds work – there is neither an r or an n in the word). I … Read more
I like to make a few handmade Christmas presents with my daughter. She has a bit of pocket money but not enough to buy presents so it’s nice to get her to make something. Last year we decorated plant pots and filled them with hyacinth bulbs. It was a lovely activity but I spent the … Read more
