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The Autumn sun is a lot lower in the sky and now is the perfect time to make some wonderful Autumn/Fall leaf sun catchers. The boys and I have such fun making these sun catchers and they are really effective and look beautiful when the sun shines through them singing the colours on to walls.
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This week has been filled with a nasty vomiting bug, which has really taken us back to basics in The Mad House. We have done a lot of reading, watching movies and simple art and drawing. So I decided to concentrate on that for this week’s something for the weekend. We received an amazing gift
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My mantra for 2013. We all need reminding every now and then and looking at this beautiful piece makes me smile everyday. Choose Joy artwork from Pen and Paint. I love mine and am never disappointed by anything Lindsay makes.
Materials:
Plain bags (Mine we 99p from Hobbycraft)
Fabric paints (mine were from a set from Yellow Moon, which I have had for seven years)
Paper plates
paint brush
Apple
Fabric pain pens (again from Yellow Moon)
A3 paper or card
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Well today has been very wet, so I decided to do some very easy Halloween decorations with the boys that required minimal preparation or involvement on my part. So we made paper pumpkins and drew faces on orange balloons. Whilst MaxiMad was a football practice I did was cut the paper for the pumpkins and black
MaxiMad and Mad dad have loved exploring the playmais and decided to do some autumn cards with them to test out their ability to stick to paper and card. MaxiMad decided on an autumn tree and a bonfire He used chalk to colour in the sky and
We have lots of birthdays to celebrate in September and we are big fans of homemade cards. Now that MaxiMad is at school, time to make elaborate and complicated cards are a thing of the past. We needed a quick, all inclusive idea. So we made …………………… Chicken cards, which are ever so easy and
As both the boys are still not fully recovered from what we think might be swine flu, but also just may be a nasty virus, they are not allowed out of the house and are getting a little stir crazy. Even the garden was out of bounds for most of today due to torrential downpours,
One of the most difficult things doing a lot of craft and art stuff with the minimads is how to display it and then store it or recycle it. We wanted to have some on display in our kitchen and after using blue tac and it leaving marks on the walls decided to hand some
