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Toddler crafts #2: Snowman faces
These are easy, fun and don’t make very much mess! You will need: White paper plates, googley eyes, pom poms, scrap of orange felt, PVA glue and a brush. Cut out triangles for the snowman noses (an...
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Toddler Crafts #3: Father Christmas Faces
To make Father Christmas faces you will need: A paper plate, glue, googly eyes, red pom poms, red card, cotton wool and a red pen. Draw a smile, stick on eyes, nose and cotton wool beard. Cut a...
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Toddler Crafts #4: Valentines cards!
We’ve been busy making valentines cards this weekend. Here are a few simple ones you can make with your small people! You will need: red and pink tissue paper torn into strips, red pom poms, googly...
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Yellow Moon Product Review: Painting Fun!
I was sent a fantastic box of painting products from yellow moon to review. As you can see we received a dinosaur sponge painting set, brushes, messy mat, fluorescent paints, and texture wands. First...
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Toddler Crafts #5: Shaky shaky
I’ve been meaning to make some of these shaky/sensory bottles for….well….lets just say a while! Hats helped and LOVED carefully filling the bottles. We made 2 yesterday: one with pasta and pompoms and...
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Toddler Crafts: Meet the Veggies, The Birthday Veggies!
We’ve had a couple of birthday cards to make this weekend. I’m not saying who for as we’ve still got to post one! If you watch Cbeebies you may recognise Joan! and Raymond! Very quick and easy to make....
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Yellow Moon Product review: Rainforest Fun!
A couple of weeks ago we were sent an exciting box of rainforest themed crafty stuff to review by Yellow Moon. No sooner had I opened the box and shown H what we’d got, then we were cracking open the...
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Yellow Moon: Snow day crafting. Part 1
Our latest box of Yellow Moon goodies arrived just before Christmas and it was packed full of fun things to make as always! In fact with the rubbish weather these have been invaluable! Here’s what we...
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Yellow Moon: Snow day crafting Part 2!
Who’d have thought it? The next time we decided to get crafty with our lovely Yellow Moon goodies we’d have more snow. I don’t have to tell you again how much I love foam stickers but I will. They’re...
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Toddler Crafts: Don’t be crabby!
Its been a awhile since I posted any of our crafting adventures, so here’s one for all you paper plate fans! To make a paper plate crab you will need: a paper plate(!), orange card, orange tissue...
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Yellow Moon Review
I know, I know! We got our latest box of goodies from Yellow Moon AGES ago. We opened the box straight away and even made our first things that same day! So here we go. We got flower buttons, glitter...
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Party activities!
Well, the big girl turned 4 last week and we had a little party for her the weekend before her birthday. She’s into crafts is our girl *proud crafty mum moment* and asked for a few activities for her...
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A Yellow Moon review!
Our latest box from Yellow Moon arrived just before we went on holiday. The girls were dying to get started on making things but being a mean mummy I made them wait until we got home! In our box we...
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Spooky stained glass windows!
Yesterday we made spooky stained glass windows. Here’s what we did… Cut out scary shapes from black sugar paper – use chalk to draw out your shape first. Teared up strips of colourful tissue paper. Let...
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Paint-chip-tree-cards.
This years Christmas cards will be half Hattie-school-designed-and-printed and half made by the girls using paint-chip-sample-colour-thingies (see below!) So, here’s what we did. Take the...
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Yellow Moon Review: Christmas ornaments!!
We got our latest box of review items from Yellow Moon last week and I couldn’t wait to get started. We were sent a pack of ceramic baubles, ceramic tree decorations, glitter porcelain pens (pack B)...
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Rain rain go away…
There has been A LOT of rain here in the UK this month and we’ve probably watched more than our fair share of Disney movies. This weekend it was time for a change. We always have paper plates for...
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Yellow Moon Review: Happy Easter!
Sorry its been a while, there has been various family stuff going on the last month or so (mainly involving various NHS establishments) but fingers crossed everyone is fit and healthy and we can all...
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How to make a Queen Elsa Peg Doll
So, do you wanna build an Elsa? Well, here’s how! You will need: A peg, felt pens, a scrap of pale blue felt, a scrap of blue shimmery cape fabric (I used organza), yellow wool, a small (15cm) beige...
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