Baking with Toddlers: Dairy Free Scones We are starting to adapt to life with a cow’s milk intolerance in the family. Freddie was diagnosed 2 months ago now and we are having fun adapting our favourite recipes to ensure that he doesn’t miss out on any of the “good stuff”. We have had success already … Read more
Tuff Spot Quiet Time Activities We love using our Tuff Spot tray in our activities at home, so we were delighted to be invited along to take part in Adventure of Adams A-Z Tuff Spot Challenge. We were handed the very challenging letter Q (and we will be back later in the week with S!). … Read more
This week Little Miss B has been working on some spring flower crafts, whilst her big brothers have been busy in school. She had such good fun with them over the school mid-term break last week and she’s really been missing them this week, so I’ve been trying to keep her extra busy to distract … Read more
Dinosaur Fuzzy Felt Felt This week my middle son turns 5 and as he is a huge Dinosaur fan, his little sister has made him a lovely home-made card with a big dinosaur on the front of it. My initial idea had been to cut out different shapes from coloured paper and use these … Read more
Exploring autumn colours with a toddler. I took the opportunity to indulge my 2 year old daughter with a one-to-one painting session last week, when her two big brothers were off with Nanna for a couple of hours. This is not something I get the chance to do very often, so I was really looking … 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
I was feeling a little weary this morning after a late night family BBQ. So when the kids asked if they could “do making” at 7.30am this morning, I just couldn’t get my brain into gear to actually prepare an activity to sit down and do with them. I really just wanted to curl up … Read more
A friend gave me a large bagful of corks last week. She works as a waitress and she has been collecting them, as she thought they d be handy for me to use with the kids to make something with. I m getting such lovely support from friends and family after embarking on my blog journey, … Read more
We love to re-use ordinary household items in our arts and crafts. At the weekend we purchased a new set of wine glasses. They came wrapped in bubblewrap and were placed into a cardboard box for us to bring home safely. Packaging materials are great to re-use in kids arts and crafts activities and … Read more
Arts and crafts don’t always have to involve specialist materials. Sometimes all you need to do is look around and see what you already have at home. It’s definitely worth getting into the habit of saving some of your empty cereal boxes, toilet roll tubes, plastic bottles and bottle tops for arts and crafts projects.Ordinary household … Read more