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It is so easy to marble eggs with mail varnish. You get an amazing effect and it is totally addictive, perfect for Easter. Beware once you start marbling you will be doing it to everything including cups, vases and plates! A super simple DIY craft that is perfect for tweens.

How to Marble Eggs with Nail Varnish: A Step-by-Step Guide

I love the effect that you get when you marble eggs with nail varnish.  I first did it with Maxi over a year ago, and we were delighted with how it turned out.  It is such a fun process art activity and I am warning you to have lots of eggs to hand as it […]

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Floating chalk prints. A super simple process art project that gives great results and is fun to do. This kids craft activity is a great way of demonstrating surface tension too. I love it when creativity and science meet.

Make Floating Chalk Prints with Kids – Fun and Easy Art Project

I have been working on finding process art activities that my boys can enjoy now they are tweens and these floating chalk prints certainly hit the mark.  I feel strongly that process art is really important for kids of all ages and sometimes more so when they reach 9/10.

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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

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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