Crafty Kids at Home
Celebrate the arrival of Autumn with this fun Bubble Painting Activity for kids. Autumn in our favourite season. I love all of the changing colours and the freshness in the air after the summer. And the kids love getting back to school after the long summer break (or is that me as well?). It’s also a … Read more
Make your own DIY Bird Feeders My children love collecting sticks, rocks, flowers and other natural objects. We spend countless hours outdoors and as a result, our house and porch are usually full of their collections. I instead of filling up our flower beds or garbage can with sticks, I am always looking for crafts … Read more
We LOVE giraffes in our house and after a recent trip to the Zoo, we just had to make some with our favourite Junk Art material Bubble Wrap and make some cool Giraffe Paintings. We enjoyed a trip to Dublin Zoo just before we went away on our holidays last week. My mum was over for a few … Read more
Another great summer is coming to an end now and as we set off for a week’s holiday just before the kids head back to school, I d thought I’d leave you all with a little look back at some of our favourite activities from this years school holidays. We began the holidays in the … Read more
We have had great success with sunflowers in our garden this year. Earlier in the summer my children helped to plant sunflower seeds into pots, which we kept inside for a few weeks before planting out into our garden.The kids really enjoyed looking after and watering their plants and arguing over who was going to … Read more
Get messy with shaving foam and waterbeads in our Sensory Soup recipe for back to school letter recognition fun. We’ve made it past the half way point now in our school summer holidays over here in Ireland, so it’s time to start putting a learning twist into some of our arts and crafts activities to help … Read more
A fun sponge painting for kids activity to enjoy doing as part of a Farm Unit or after singing the popular children’s nursery rhyme, Baa Baa Black Sheep. My 2 year old daughter is really enjoying playing with her farm animal set this week. She’s great at making all of the animal sounds now, even if … Read more
Cool down in the garden with this giant dinosaur ice cube rescue activity. We have been so lucky with the weather over the school holidays and have enjoyed lots of long hot sunny days. To help keep us cool, we have been having fun playing with ice. And our favourite icy activity this week, has … Read more
We were very excited when we received a parcel from Rainbow Creations containing three Patterned Rubber Paint and Dough Rollers for us to review. The rollers are available to purchase via their website but we did receive them free of charge in exchange for an honest review of this product. Our first test for the … Read more
Hands up who remembers playing with Fuzzy Felt as a child? It used to be a firm favourite of mine and my little sisters. We’d spend ages sat at the kitchen table with all of the colourful felt pieces laid out making different pictures on our little felt boards. One of my sons received a … Read more