Category Archives: Craft and creativity
Creative Activity for Kids – Squiggle Drawing
Are you looking for an easy no-preparation creative activity for your kids? Have you heard of squiggle drawing? I like to challenge my kids to be creative and think out of the box, that’s why I often propose them creative … Continue reading
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Creative Activity for Kids – How to Make Wax Crayons
If you have some leftovers of wax crayons and you’re looking for a way to recycle them, check out this creative activity for kids that shows you how to make wax crayons of different shapes and colors. Don’t throw your … Continue reading
Creative Challenge for Kids: Draw Something that does not Exist
Help your kids to grow into creative adults. Give them creative challenges like asking them to draw something that does not exist. It was one of those days when the kids were unable to play together without getting into a … Continue reading
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Face painting for kids (and by kids)
Are you into face painting? Personally I’m not a big fan. My kids though, they love it! As a kid I might have still liked face painting, but this faded away as I grew older. Bottom line is that right … Continue reading
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Kids outdoor activity: Painting with chalk
A quick and easy way to turn chalk into paint with your kids On a hot summer day a while back Victoria had one of her friends over on a play-date.I thought it’s a nice opportunity to try out a … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative play, messy play, Outdoor play, painting
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Easy DIY toys for a mini-explorer baby!
Sure, a good selection of “real toys” can offer great educational stimuli to kids (I own an online toy shop would you have expected otherwise?) and on top they don’t require preparation besides buying them. However, there is also a whole … Continue reading
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Princess Birthday Party Ideas from Victoria’s 5th Birthday.
Victoria’s 5th birthday was coming soon and the closer we got, the more she’d talk to us about it. So we started planning. First we made some home made birthday cards to invite her friends to the birthday party. Then we started thinking of … Continue reading
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Easy crafts with kids: How to make a castle
For Victoria’s princess birthday, we made a whole collection of princesses from paper. But princesses live in castles, so I decided (in my enthusiasm for the event) to also make a series of castles from cardboard and paper. As I had to … Continue reading
Easy DIY paper crafts princess
After the big success with the fairy wings, I thought it would be great for Victoria’s birthday to do some more girly stuff, so we decided to make her a princess birthday party. The ideal occasion to make our own … Continue reading
Impress your family with a magic photo of your kids
Chances are high that you take loads of pictures of your kid. I know I do! Many are crap, some are good, but from time to time I manage to make a great picture and then I look at it … Continue reading
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