Spring’s brighter days and blossoms are here! We join in the celebration of renewal and rebirth with colourful crafts using both recycled materials and natural elements.
Category: Art and Craft
An original way to recycle pear trays into stunning, multicoloured, 3d flowers… and to welcome spring!
We love recycling cardboard boxes! This time we made a studio flat for Barbie from a cardboard box, convertible from day mode to night mode!
A very special winter themed craft for kids: a cardboard snowy woodland scene in a shoe box with interchangeable background, from a snowy day to a clear full moon night!
Prepare for the festivities with fun projects for kids! From making a gingerbread house to diy wrapping paper, from cardboard tube elves to handmade Christmas tree ornaments.
Seven arty crafty activities for kids using beautiful Autumn leaves!
Full immersion in Halloween atmosphere making creative themed activities with kids, from creepy decorations with recycled materials to spooky cooking, from dressing up to pumpkin carving.
We are very proud to show you our tropical reef diorama with under-the-sea animals made entirely with recycled materials.
Now that the weather is good enough for a day out, why don’t you put in your bag scissors and a ball of twine and collect sticks for building a small raft? We did it last Autumn, but this craft is always perfect as an outdoor activity with your children whatever the season.
Craft your very own card for Father's Day, an irresistible classic origami shirt-and-tie card!
It’s Barbie’s time! Diy cardboard box house and some clothes to play endlessly and imaginatively with Barbie.
"The first two years adventure” is the title of the photo album I made for my little girl's second birthday. It is a scrapbook of 40 decorated sheets, containing diary pages and photos...
An idea for a child-friendly short holiday? Absolutely Barcelona! In the post I share our 5-day experience in the amazing Catalan capital with two young explorers, from travel planning to resources for engaging children during travel, plus a Gaudì-inspired craft activity with free printables. Enjoy!
Food play sets for imaginative play. Pizza, typical Italian first courses, eggs, meatballs, sausages and delicious cakes. Handmade by crocheting, with felt or by modelling salt dough.
Waiting for Halloween, have fun with your children during half-term in themed craft activities, from the creation of spooky ornaments - giant pop-up castle, toilet-rolls mummies, 3D pen cobwebs - to the carving of spectral pumpkins in different sizes.
Waiting for my second child, I involved my elder son in making frames decorated with Minnie bow, Goofy hat and Donald Duck headgear, simply recycling cardboard and old newspapers using the paper-mache technique. They can be used as a photo frame or a nameplate...
Repurpose plastic drinking straws into a super-easy no-cut no-tape no-twine straw-bunting and hang it as a coloured home decoration!
I saw plain paper mache letters at a craft shop and they immediately inspired me... They can be a lovely gift for a newborn as well as a cute child room decoration.
My first great passion was painting, oil painting. I started painting at Middle school, after I found my mum’s old painting supplies...
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