Articles Tagged: crafts

Easter Crafts: Step-by-step guides to creating your favourite children's characters

By parentdish.co.uk, Apr 5, 2012

Fun and easy Easter crafts to makes at home with your children from Hobbycraft

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When good crafts turn bad

By Lucy Jolin, Mar 25, 2012

As the Easter holidays loom, I am constantly being told how lucky I am to have a son who enjoys crafts. How nice it must be, friends say, to have a child who sits quietly, doing something creative. Oh, how wrong they are.

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Blog of the Week: Slugs on the Refrigerator

By Sally Whittle, Feb 3, 2012

Being made redundant can feel like the end of the world, but for one blogging mum, it signalled the start of a brand new career. Kat Gold was made redundant from her job as a civil servant while she was pregnant with her third child, in 2011.

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How to make: Valentine's Day stained glass hearts

By Anna Ranson, Feb 2, 2012

Create some beautiful, stained glass effect hearts with simple materials for beautiful Valentine's decorations! Everyone from toddlers to adults can make them easily.

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Why I won't put my children's paintings on the wall

By Emily Carlisle, Sep 19, 2011

I don't like badly crayoned pictures of me, where I've apparently got no hair and my teeth are bigger than my hands, stuck up haphazardly on walls with blu-tak and pieces of peeling Sellotape. I don't like models made of yoghurt pots, PVA glue dripping between the cracks, gracing my occasional tables. And I don't like glitter. Anywhere.

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Achtung Baby or Lili the robot

By Suze Nowak, Nov 18, 2010

My mother was a genius. She was the paragon of parenting that I aspire to be. She could sow and glue, create and build, draw ...

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Ten things learning to crochet has taught me about children and classes

By Debbie Webber, Apr 26, 2010

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks and I'm starting to believe this may indeed be true. It has been a while, too ...

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Tip of the Day: Arts and crafts with your baby

By Joanne Mallon, Feb 17, 2010

You might have assumed that a baby is too young to appreciate arts and crafts-style play, but you'd be wrong. Creative play ...

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