🐥 Milk Bottle Bird Feeder 🐥

This is a lovely quick craft to do with the kids at the weekend & is a great way to recycle old milk bottles. All you need are some washed out milk bottles, scissors or a craft knife, string, pencil and some permanent markers. I cut out the hole for the bird food and the […]

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Make your own travel Play Kitchen

Our Ikea toy kitchen has always been a firm favourite with my kids and it has sparked their imaginations from toddlerdom right through to age 6 and will do beyond i’m sure. So when we are going away and i am packing a few toys to keep them entertained this is my solution: I came […]

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Toddler Mealtimes

Do you have a constant battle to get your little one to sit at the table & eat?! I know I am not the only one to find it demoralising when they won’t eat anything you put in front of them. God forbid you should put a parsnip on the plate which then naturally renders […]

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Children’s Baking Binder

There are lots of lovely children’s cooking books on the market but everyone has there own selection of favourite recipes don’t they? Whenever I buy a cook book I inevitably only cook a few things out of it and the remainder goes unread. I have kept a binder of printed recipes and pages out of […]

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D.I.Y. Fishing Game

I was so impressed that my daughter Emily came up with this creative game all by herself that I had to share it with you! She invented a fishing game using her magnetic building blocks, a dressing gown belt and a hanger, and it was a huge hit with her brother Frankie! They played it […]

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Fairy doors

Is your little one obsessed with fairies & magical fairy doors? My almost 6 year old absolutely loves Wishenpoof & all things fairy related and has asked for this as a theme for her birthday party. After a bit of googling I came across these: I am planning a fairy door hunt in the garden […]

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Mud Kitchen

The kids mud kitchen had become neglected and under-used so me & Emily decided to give it a spruce up! Here are the before & after pictures: Even I want to play with it now! As soon as the kids are up they want to go in the garden to make mud pies! Here’s what […]

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D.I.Y Teacher Gifts

Stuck for ideas for an end of year teacher gift? Want something personal and homemade? Why not try these hand painted pots or take a look at some of my other favorite ideas from pinterest. These were made using a plain white ceramic plant pot like this: I used ceramic paint pens for the writing […]

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Personalised family art

I love doodling cartoons of family members & decided to turn them into a Killough family picture to frame. I love how it turned out & have since made others as gratefully received personalised gifts. Why not give it a go? If you don’t fancy drawing, how about this idea from Buttonbella on etsy https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/488179147/button-family-frame-family-button-art?utm_source=Pinterest&utm_medium=PageTools&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lp.d2.v1&share_time=1519306298000

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