Grown Up Crafts

SUMMER Craft – Sea Shell Necklace

SUMMER Craft - Sea Shell Necklace We LOVE going to the beach in Summer and the kids are for ever collecting beach finds, especially sea shells. We have a huge stash of shells and I am always looking for new simple crafts for them (check out these fabulous 20 Sea…

Bunny Rattles How To

How to make a Bunny Rattle We love making for our kids. Here is adorable Bunny Rattle Craft - how cute is this? Everyone loves a bunny - we love to see their little powder puff tales bobbing along, and who can resist reading the Peter Rabbit books to our…

Rainbow Friendship Bracelets

Rainbow Friendship Bracelets We LOVE Friendship Bracelets - they are so wonderful to make and even better to give and therefore area always on the look out for new and wonderful Friendship Bracelet ideas. These would be a fun activity for St Patrick's Day too!We have featured craft stick bracelets…

New Year’s Eve Glitter Champagne Bottles

Glitter Champagne Bottles With so many existing New Year’s Eve Ideas & Traditions knocking around this week, we thought we'd have a look for something we've never done before, and LOVED this idea for Glitter covered Champagne Bottles! How beautiful are these examples from 100layercake? These could work equally well…

Christmas String Stars

Christmas String Stars - a cute Star Craft for Everyone We love Yarn Crafts for Kids. Every year we acquire a new decoration for the Christmas Tree - whether we buy a homemade decoration from the School Christmas Fair, or we make one ourselves - it's a tradition depending on…

Crochet Autumn Wreath

Crochet Autumn Wreath Is it really Autumn/Fall already? Crochet is something that I finally managed to teach myself a few years ago (check out this excellent article on How to Learn to Crochet!) and since then I am always on the look out for fun and quirky projects. The key…

Leaf Creatures

Leaf Creatures Love a fun and easy craft for kids. Autumn is fast approaching and we thought it would be a great idea to feature some cool ways you and your children can use the outdoors to create some fantastic crafts. Today we are loving these Leaf Creatures, they look…

DIY Fruit Slice Umbrellas

DIY Fruit Slice Umbrellas Another fruit craft here! Take a look at these DIY Fruit Slice Umbrellas! The weather can be a bit unpredictable - even in the summer, and therefore umbrellas are a necessity all year round despite the season! So how do we keep the colourful summer mood,…

wooden bead key chain

Wooden bead key chain We can NEVER find our keys - they seem to be in the least likely place/pocket/bag/purse when they DO turn up, so having a bit keychain attached seems to help us find them easier - so if this key chain is a pretty one even better!…

DIY Wooden Play Burger

DIY Wooden Play Burger As a vegetarian I often find play food - well, play meat, pretty unappetizing - surprisingly - however, this fab DIY Wooden Play Burger from The Merry Thought brought a smile to my face. My two boys always LOVED their wooden play kitchen and all of…