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How to Make a Birthday Party Countdown Train

This is how I made the train birthday party countdown for my son which proved to be quite educational for the kids and also a lot of fun for the whole family. I wrote before why a birthday party countdown is good … Continue reading

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Why to Make a Birthday Countdown for your Kids

To help my son visualize his 4th birthday approaching, I made a train birthday countdown for him, which turned out quite nice and useful 🙂 I honestly didn’t see the point of having a birthday countdown till I had preschoolers … Continue reading

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How to Make a Paper Christmas Tree – Simple Christmas Crafts

If you’re looking for some simple Christmas crafts for kids, have a look at this easy to make paper Christmas tree. What you need to make a paper Christmas tree: One A4 sheet of (colored) paper A toilet paper roll  … 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

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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

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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

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How to make easy birthday cards for your kids

Some weeks ago we celebrated Victoria’s birthday with a kids’ party at our place. A party means guests and thus invitations to make. I thought it would be fun to make our own birthday cards as a crafts activity with … Continue reading

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Small Duplo world play in a rice sensory box

Do you remember the fun Elena (1) had when I put in front of her a box with rice? Well, I re-used the rice later on for another activity for Victoria (4,5) and Lukas (3) . In the evening, after the kids … Continue reading

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DIY Felt Christmas Tree for Kids

A felt Christmas tree is the perfect answer when you have small kids and few space in the house. This is how I did our felt Christmas tree for kids which was also a great Christmas craft activity for the … Continue reading

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