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DIY Garden Lantern from a Plastic Bottle: Beautiful Recyclable Crafts for Kids

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Looking for a creative way to reuse your recyclables? These DIY lanterns made from an empty plastic bottle are a fun and eco-friendly project for kids and families. Instead of tissue paper, we’ll be using permanent markers like Sharpies (or acrylic paint) to decorate the bottles. It’s quick, colourful, and a great way to turn […]

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Upcycle glass jars into a stunning glowing photo jar luminaries. This beautiful photo luminaries glow when you add a candle and make the perfect gifts. What a fun DIY craft.

DIY Photo Jar Luminaries: Easy Craft Idea for Personalized Lighting

15 Comments / candles, childrens craft, crafts, Homemade gifts, Mother's Day Crafts, Teen, Tween, Upcycling / By

These photo jar luminaries are remarkably simple to make and perfect for upcycling empty jars and even for jazzing up candles.   I am passionate about ensuring that we eat together as a family and I love making our dinner table a wonderful place for my family to connect and these photo jar luminaries are

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Bleeding Tissue Paper Rain Art for Earth Day. This fab process art is great for getting kids crafting outside. Beautiful art made by kids using the bleeding tissue paper technique.

Bleeding Tissue Paper Rain Art for Earth Day

14 Comments / Age 2-5, Age 5-7, art, childrens craft, crafts, Earth Day, Process Art, Teen, Tween / By

This Earth Day craft is a great rainy day activity or just get the watering can out. It seems to have done nothing but rain for months and months here in North Yorkshire and I decided to embrace the weather and produce this process art bleeding tissue paper rain art for Earth Day.  

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Free Beautiful colouring page or Be-YOU-tiful coloring page for adults. Another free colouring page from mum in the mad house. Adult colouring is all the rage at the moment and this colouring page is perfect for tweens and teens too

Free “Be You Tiful” Colouring Page – Diverse Women Faces

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This free Beautiful colouring page or should that be Be-you-tiful colouring page is by the ever talented Leslieanne from Leslieanne made it.  I am a big fan of colouring, it is the one time that I truly switch off.  I can sit down and just colour in and this fantastic colouring page is perfect for all

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Five fab printables for scrap fabric paper dolls, inspired by the vintage paper dolls. A fantastic DIY kids craft to recycle and reuse scrap fabric. Scrap fabric paper dolls are such a fun DIY craft for children and a great way to practice scissor skills. Kids can also colouring them in or even dress them with scrapbooking paper.

DIY Scrap Fabric Paper Dolls – Fun Craft for Kids

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Scrap Fabric Paper Dolls These scrap fabric paper dolls are inspired by the paper dolls that I used to play with when I was a child.  Do you remember them, the books for dolls and paper clothes that you used to colour and play with for hours and hours?  I have teamed up with the

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