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Printing Flowers with Celery Stalks

Printing Flowers with Celery Stalks: Fun Vegetable Printing Craft for Kids

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You can really create some beautiful artwork and patterns by printing flowers with celery stalks or other vegetables.  You can use the artwork for Mother’s Day cards, valentines day or for wrapping paper or you can just have fun experimenting with different colours and patterns. Printing is something that really appeals to kids of all […]

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Tea light holders made with microwave drying clay

heart cutout tea light holders made with microwave drying clay

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These heart-cutout tea-light holders are a beginner-friendly clay craft, perfect for kids or adults. By using special microwave-drying clay, you can make and finish a glowing candle holder in under an hour — a handmade gift that looks beautiful on a mantle, table, or windowsill. I really need to share with you what a game-changer

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The Ultimate Free adult colouring pages roundup

The Ultimate Free Adult Coloring Pages Roundup – Relax and Unwind

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As you know if you are a regular follower, we LOVE free adult colouring pages here and feature some every month of so.  We are delighted to be able to work with some fantastic talent to produce exclusive pages for you all to download at no cost.   Adult colouring books might be the latest

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LOVE Watercolour resist canvas

LOVE Watercolour Resist Fingerprint Canvas Art – Fun Kids’ Craft

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We have been on something of a watercolour marathon here in the Mad House lately, all spurred on by some new water brushes that I bought the kids (and me) for Christmas.  They have sparked Maxi’s interest in paint again and inspired him to make this LOVE watercolour resist canvas.

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Watercolour Indent Valentines Cards

DIY Watercolour Indent Valentines Cards – Creative and Personalized Ideas

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We have been experimenting with watercolours since getting some new water brushes in our stockings at Christmas. I originally bought them with the intention of us taking our paints out and about with us, but quickly discovered that the kids LOVE them and they sparked lots of creative activities including these watercolour indent valentines cards.

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microwave heart shaped ring dish

DIY Microwave Clay Heart Shaped Ring Dish – Easy Craft Tutorial

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We first used microwave drying clay with our Christmas fingerprint decorations and we totally fell for it, so decided to give it a try for the microwave clay heart shaped ring dish.  The microwave clay is much lighter weight that standard air drying clay, in fact is has almost no weight to it, but it is

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