When I was in the first year of school I remember making a Christmas card for my Mum, a big green hand print covered in sequins and glitter glue, I loved that card and was so proud when she displayed it all year around despite it being Christmas themed. I LOVE hand print art, it’s easy to do and creates a great snapshot in time of your little one, here’s a collection of some of my favourite body prints that [...]

Penguin contacted me recently and asked if I would be interested in a quick book review and giveaway, never one to turn down new craft books, of course I jumped at the chance, and then roped my eldest, Declan, in to help with a child’s perspective. He didn’t so much jump at the chance, but groaned in a way that only a 4 year old who’s convinced he’s actually 14 could do. From the publisher: Little Things for Busy Hands [...]

My eldest son has just made the move from his high chair and onto a booster seat at “the big table”, yay for creating more space by putting the high chair in the garage (at least for a few more months until his younger brother needs it!), less of a yay for my dining table constantly being under a barrage of crumbs, melted cheese and sticky pesto. So, as with most tutorials on here, out of necessity I made up [...]

I just sat down to get started on taking the pictures on today’s “Tuesday Tutorial” and then realised that pattern pieces and designs are currently sitting in my husband’s laptop bag, that is currently sitting in an office in North Sydney. Oops. I guess that’s what I get for scribbling down my ideas the moment inspiration strikes… and writing them on the back of his meeting notes! In my defence, I promise they did just look like scraps of paper. [...]

Every week Arounna Khounnoraj posts a craft walkthrough on Bloesem Kids, they’re generally very kid focused and excellent for introducing different mediums to younger children. My son isn’t quite at a level to be able to do this yet, so this was entirely done by myself – I think I need to get my niece and nephew round for a day of art so I can thoroughly test all of the child related tuts that I have on my “to [...]

PlanningQueen over at Planning With Kids has a great write up of the activities currently going on in Federation Square at the moment. As well as showing some classic monster animations they’re giving the kids a chance to make their own using cardboard cut outs and stop-motion animation. It sounds like PQ’s children had a great time, and the resulting animations are just fabulous! The workshop is suited for children aged 6-13, will run until this Friday and best of [...]