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Kids craft – egg carton mini Easter baskets

16 Wednesday Apr 2014

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Hi

Just a quick post today to show you some cute little Easter baskets we made for the kids at my son’s daycare.   He had so much fun making these – it kept him occupied for the best part of 2 hours!

Egg carton Easter basketsI cut off the top and closing edge of some egg cartons, then he had a lovely time with his crayons decorating the little egg cups.    I then cut these up and we stapled little strips of curling ribbon to make handles for the baskets.    Then came the fun part – filling them with Easter eggs!

He took all the baskets in to give to his friends – he was very popular that day!!!!!

They looked so cute all piled up ready to be given out.

Egg carton Easter gift basketsThanks for reading.

Caro x

“Scribble scrabble” butterflies

02 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by in Beautiful Butterflies, Big Shot, Bitty Butterfly, Butterfly (retired), Dies, Elegant Butterly, Kids craft ideas, Punches, Using up scraps

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One of the things that my little boy loves to do is make a “scribble scrabble” – a piece of paper where you scribble colours all over it to make a pretty picture.

Scribble scrabbleHe loves making them, and sometimes we use them as wrapping paper or the background for a card.

The other day it occurred to me that they would make gorgeous butterflies, so I got out my Beautiful Butterflies die and the Big Shot, as well as my butterfly punches and set him loose.   He adores being allowed to play with “Mummy’s precious toy” (AKA my Big Shot!).

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Scribble scrabble butterfly

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This next photo shows you how to make the largest butterflies from the Beautiful Butterflies die – fold a piece of paper in half and line the fold up along the edge of the ‘half’ butterflies on the die.  This way you get 6 butterflies out of one run through the Big Shot.

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This is his ‘art work’ after spending a happy half hour with his butterflies and a glue stick.

Scribble scrabble butterfly artYou could use the same technique to make gorgeous butterflies for grown up cards and decorations.

Thanks for reading

Caro x

 

Fish tank craft

28 Friday Feb 2014

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hello 🙂

Today I wanted to show you something that has nothing at all to do with card making, but still a fun little bit of paper craft I did with my son recently.

We had been out for dinner to a restaurant where he was mesmerised by a beautiful fish tank full of the most beautiful tropical fish.    So we decided to make our own!

Kids paper craft fish tankThe background is a blue piece of A4 paper.   The sand is torn from yellow A4 paper and the seaweed is made from strips of green paper stuck on top of each other to give depth.   We didn’t stick them all the way down so the seaweed looks a bit like it’s moving in the water.

And then the fish!   Let a 4 year old loose with a roll of fish stickers from a $2 shop and you end up with a beautiful tropical aquarium!   You could equally draw your own fish and cut them out.

Thanks for reading!

Caro x

 

 

Home made art gallery

03 Thursday Oct 2013

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Hi.  Thanks for reading my blog 🙂

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know I have a small son.  He goes to daycare a few days a week and loves art and craft so much he often makes several paintings every day.   He brings them home proudly and then I am never sure what to do with his masterpieces!

I took him to an art exhibition last weekend and he was most intrigued by the concept of exhibiting paintings on the wall.  He wanted to know if he could bring his paintings in for an exhibition.   I had to explain why not – but it did give me an idea.  What if we made our own little art gallery at home?

A couple of clip boards and some 3M hanging strips later and voila – a mini art gallery to show off his art works!

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And here they are filled with his lovely art:

IMAG0201The thing I like about this is that we can change them around easily, add a new art work to the top every day, and the older ones can be discretely ‘filed’ (some in a book to keep for later and perhaps some in a slightly different ‘filing’ place!)

It is also a good way to get them out of the way if the paint is not quite dry.

I have to say I’m actually really liking having the extra colour on the walls, and it makes the kitchen look a little different each day, which is no bad thing.

I can also see this being a great idea for a mood board, or even a cheap way to get some colour on walls with a changing range of printed images or cuts outs from magazines.

Enjoy!

Caro x

PS I got these lovely steel clip boards at Officeworks.  Much nicer than the usual plastic ones!