These small hanging Easter egg decorations are perfect for decorating Easter trees and are simple to make. We made them in four different designs and you can find our template for the different shapes we used here. ‘Stained glass’ cross Easter egg You will need: Small pieces of craft foam… Read More
Sophie has been learning about Brazil and the Amazon rainforest over the last few weeks. Her project this half-term was to make a rainforest in a shoebox. She enjoyed having a project to focus on and spent a few afternoons putting her shoebox rainforest together. Although it does sound very time-consuming, most of the time… Read More
Small squares of tissue paper stuck on to sticky-back plastic is a great way of creating ‘stained-glass’ decorations to go on windows. We still have the Christmas tree and star that the girls made a few years ago which come out each year to decorate our living room windows. Now that Sophie’s older, I thought… Read More
Last week’s theme for our home-learning was ‘Family and Friends’ and one of the activities for this was to make a family tree picture. I remember having to do family trees at school myself – and being part of a big blended family meant that I always found it difficult to fit everyone on my… Read More
Last week’s home learning theme was ‘the seaside’ which gave us lots of inspiration for crafts to go alongside the school-work. We revisited a couple of ‘under the sea’ crafts which I’d done before with the girls as well as trying a few new ideas. Our favourite craft activity was making peg doll mermaids to… Read More
Trips to space and aliens seem to feature strongly in the books that Sophie has been reading for her home learning recently. We thought it would be fun to do some crafting to go alongside them; to make our own little alien and a paper-plate flying saucer for it to travel it. This is a… Read More
After learning about Christopher Columbus and his voyage to the Americas, our next topic was Neil Armstrong and the first Moon landing. This provided another good excuse for some space-themed crafting and a little small world play to help bring history to life. Toilet roll rocket You will need: A toilet roll tube… Read More