Fabric Crafting: Fab Effex

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We were sent the Fab Effex Make N’ Play – Animals to review. The idea is you wrap and decorate 3 cute animal forms. The set includes 120 Fab Effex Pieces 2 Full Fab Effex Sheets 3 Plastic Animal Forms 1 Instruction Sheet I found the instruction sheet linited and somewhat confusing and I would stongly [...]

Get Crafty on a Budget – Stick Men

Week 6 Get Crafty on a Budget – Stick Men It has been a busy summer and our features for Baby Budgeting are coming to an end. I do hope that you have enjoyed the crafts brought to you and that they have inspired you to get crafty! Thank you to Becky for the opportunity [...]

Get Crafty on a Budget – Sock Monster

Week 5 Get Crafty on a Budget – Sock Monster Hello, I am Maggy and am visiting from Red Ted Art bringing you another fun and thrifty craft! The summer holidays are indeed very long! By now you may feel you have exhausted all ideas for keeping your kids amused… if you are stuck.. why [...]

Get Crafty on a Budget: Saltdough

Week 3 Get Crafty on a Budget – Saltdough Hello. Get Crafty on a budget is back! I am Maggy and I get crafty over at Red Ted Art! Today we are featuring our saltdough dinosaurs. T This isn’t really about the dinosaurs but about our “no cook” COLOURED saltdough.. Saltdough is much easier to [...]

Get crafty on a budget: calenders

Week 2 Get Crafty on a Budget – Calendars Welcome back to Get Crafty on a budget! I am Maggy visiting from Red Ted Art, bringing you a weekly crafty feature to help you through the summer holidays. To day I would like to share our “ArtCalendar” idea with you We have been collecting a [...]

How to… make a Fabric Mâché Bowl! (frugal crafts)

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Hello, I am visiting again from over at Red Ted Art. A craft blog for children and adults alike – hopefully inspiring you to have a go and get crafty!  Inexpensive crafts are a great passion of mine, I am also a great believer in “waste not want not” and you can usually make “something” [...]

Post of the week: How to Celebrate Earth day

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I have already written about the importance of earth day and I have found a great post packed with ideas on ways to play through Earth Day. It is definately my: I would love you to read this post How to Celebrate Earth Day which is over on the Nurture Store blog, It has tops [...]

Mums: CASH IN ON YOUR CRAFTY WAYS

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CASH IN ON YOUR CRAFTY WAYS Are you crafty? Can you bake, sew or knit? If you can, you have an amazing resource to exploit – yourself. Making something by hand can cost a fraction of its retail cost; whether it’s clothes or toys for your kids, tasty cakes for tea or perhaps lovely home [...]

5 Crafty kids giveaways and an inspiring idea from docraft

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Thanks to Docraft for this giveaway and  crafting ideas You will find lots of kids craft projects to keep kids occupied through June whether it’s a beautiful sunny day or a typical British rainy day! Visit http://www.docrafts.com and check out the children’s section  Being a parent on a budget doesn’t mean that your little ones need to [...]

A lovely, creative, family activity for half term

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 I just want to share with you something really beautiful my family do. Each season we make a huge new picture for our kitchen wall depicting the season. It’s our pride and joy and even daddy gets involved. The children love it and we love to set to work on a new one as the [...]

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