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Mini-Masterpieces – December Link-up
Christmas is coming, and it’s time for December’s Mini-Masterpieces link-up. I’m sure many of you have already been getting into the Christmas spirit with lots of seasonal creative projects already, so don’t be shy – link-them up and inspire us all! I’ll be sharing some of our projects over the next week or two – [...]
Snow Paper
Christmas is such a wonderful time for making things and my head has been buzzing with ideas for projects recently – I just wish we had the time to do them all, but it’s also the busiest time of year for Artful Kids, with lots of orders to fulfil, so time is frustratingly in shorter [...]
Pin ItMore Creative Gift-wrapping with Kids
Following on from my last post on creating some Graffiti Giftwrap, I thought I’d look at a few more ideas for some creative gift-wrapping with kids. Of course there are loads of ways you can create gift wrap. The following are just a few ideas: Last year we made decorative paste papers for gift wrapping, [...]
Pin ItGraffiti Giftwrap
It’s heading towards mid-November already, and I need to start thinking about getting things organised for Christmas. Over the last 12 months or so, I have discovered that I love decorating paper – creating gorgeous effects with paper, paint, crayons, and whatever else I have to hand, so this year I thought it would be [...]
Pin ItSeasonal Confetti Shakers
I have to confess, that I wasn’t sure what to call these – they’re not quite sun-catchers, and not really snow-globes, so I decided on Confetti Shakers in the absence of any other ideas. These were born when I accidentally discovered, in one of those ‘Eureka’ moments that you have now and then, that the [...]
Pin ItMini-Masterpieces – November
Thanks to everyone who contributed to last month’s Mini- Masterpieces Link-up. There was a good selection of artwork and projects, including some wonderful robot artwork from Mermaids Creations, to a Halloween appropriate Spider resist artwork from Our Creative Day. This month I am featuring my younger son’s own Halloween artwork. This is a Halloween scene [...]
Incey Winsey Spider…..
It’s half-term and with the kids being off school, time for blog writing is in short supply, so as it’s almost Halloween, it seemed like an opportune moment for a quick post to show off my hand-painted children’s spider T-shirts. I’ve been spending quite a bit of time making them recently to fulfill a little [...]
Pin ItChildren’s art activities – they’re not just for kids!
I fell into a love of children’s art accidentally. I’m not an early years educator or an art teacher, and although I’ve always loved creating artwork, it was not until I had kids of my own, that I developed an interest in the artwork children produced. The value of artwork as an activity for children [...]
Mealtime Masterpieces
Everyone knows that kids love playing with their food, so why shouldn’t mealtimes be an opportunity to get creative? It can be difficult at the best of times to get kids to sit still at the table for any length of time, and anything which encourages them to take an interest in their food can [...]
Halloween Scanner Art
As the days grow shorter and the weather gets colder, the shops start to fill up with Halloween related products. In the UK this is a relatively recent phenomenon – when I was a child, although we were aware of Halloween, it wasn’t much ‘celebrated’ as such – there were few parties, and no trick [...]
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