Category: Art & Crafts for Kids
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Decorating and Labelling Drawers and Boxes
I’ve really enjoyed labelling and decorating boxes and drawers with pictures and clear labels. As well as looking nice, it helps me remember what’s inside them 🙂 Decorate and Label Your Drawers and Boxes! You will need: Pictures you like (I used some from old art diaries, but you could use anything – flyers, magazines,…
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Yama & Niyama Clothes Pegs
The yamas and niyamas of yoga are guidelines for how to be content and I quite like choosing one to focus on or having them around as little reminders of how to be and they do seem to help! So I made these clothes pegs for that 🙂 MAKE YAMA & NIYAMA CLOTHES PEGS You…
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Decorate your fans
Here’s a simple easy way to decorate your fans if they have a circle bit in the middle 🙂 Draw a mandala or any kind of picture on a piece of paper. I quite like using a black ink pen and then colouring in with coloured pencils. If you are making these with someone else,…
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Cardboard House
Before recycling cardboard boxes, why not make a house or something else from them first?
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Mini Terrariums
Made these with my son Dan in lockdown and some of them are still alive and healthy!
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Halloween Lanterns
These look great, are so simple and if you use water based paint you can wash the jars and use them again for something else!
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Make your own medicine jars!
I made these jars to help make taking medicines easier and more enjoyable :)
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Gold homemade pen box
I made this from an ice cream box and some stickers I had at home, the gold glitter sticker was years old, but happily still sticky 🙂It is the perfect size for my labelling pens and some card labels! Make your own storage boxes! All you need is: a clean, empty ice cream box (or…
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Home schooling calendar sticker legend
Here’s our home schooling calendar sticker legend – many ideas inspired by family, friends and the Internet! Going to try and do the core curriculum ones on every weekday, with days off on weekends / holidays. Make your own calendar sticker legend with your kids! All you need is: A piece of card or paper…
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Kirigami
Kirigami means cutting paper in Japanese (kiri = cut, gami = paper). It’s a fun and easy activity to do with children and you use them for decoration or glue them on to paper or card, etc. You can also use the cut out pieces for something! Sometimes I like to make one where the…
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Fix with Sticks!
Mending some broken rails in our cupboard with some sticks and Dan’s penknife he got for Christmas. It has a saw and sander as well! Also made this hairbrush holder with a hot chocolate pot and some coloured masking tape.
Grace Kishino 