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Making Poppies for Remembrance Day & other Autumn crafts.

November 6, 2012 by

We dipped into Remembrance Day crafts again today, ready for spending some time on World War work on Thursday and Friday. We’ve covered this a fair bit over the last two years and so it was easy to pick up the threads of previous work, especially as Fran has been doing WW1 recently too. We […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Autumn Crafts, Fimo Models, Hama Beads, History etc, Knitting & Sewing Tagged With: Armistice Day crafts, felt poppies, handmade brooches, learning about Remembrance Day, making poppy brooches in felt, Remebrance Day Poppy craft, World War One crafts

Halloween 2012

November 2, 2012 by

The Halloween costumes the girls created were probably the best they had ever done – and one advantage for me was I’m now very much a credit card facilitator of the whole thin; I don’t have to make! Fran and Amelie both adapted an idea from Pinterest. Fran had 10 metres of black netting from […]

Filed Under: Autumn Crafts, Photos, Trips Out Tagged With: corpse bride costume, easy halloween costumes to make, halloween costumes, vampire costume, werewolf costume, woman in black costume

WedEd loveliness Halloween/Fairytale style.

October 28, 2012 by

WedEd played a blinder this week; this group home ed meeting has settled into something that seems to work really well now and I mostly feel like I pull my weight, which makes me feel better. Bene is (temporarily I suspect) not too high maintenance there, so I can do a couple of activities. Once […]

Filed Under: Autumn Crafts, Fimo Models, Science, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: making fimo fairy houses, making onion skin slides, pumpkin carving, the lady of shallott

It's been a proper home ed week.

October 20, 2012 by

There has been lots going on here this week, even though I had a day out (more to come on that!) and we spent a day interviewing for new staff. As well as the geography day we did there has been lots of crafting of various sorts. Maddy, Josie and I have put together these […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Autumn Crafts, Drawing, Family Life, Fimo Models, Home Education, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: cat drawings, fimo models, finger puppet designs, halloween crafts, ice skating, life, Simple Crafts

Autumn in Hama Beads… again :)

September 11, 2012 by

I’ve seen this idea pop up on Pinterest a few times and was desperate to have a go and see if it really was as easy as it looks. Seems like a great fun way to use up mixed up Hama Beads. Today we had the beads out to make a whole heap of pictures […]

Filed Under: Autumn Crafts, Hama Beads Tagged With: Autumn Crafts, hama beads, hama trinket bowl, melted hama bead bowl, ways to use hama beads

Crafty stuff that was done Simply ;)

August 28, 2012 by

We’ve had a pleasant summer, trying new crafts out, making pretty things and working together on projects, most of which have found their own special post on my brand new website, SimpleCrafts. I’m trying to make a place to put together all the nice things we make and do and showcase them, mostly so we […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Felting, Fimo Models, Hama Beads Tagged With: felting, fimo flowers, pom pom trees, Simple Crafts, wet felting

A-maising play.

August 3, 2012 by

Years and years ago, my second product was Happymais, which my children loved. I’m not entirely sure now where it even came in from (how can I have forgotten that?) or why I stopped selling it but we did. It’s changed name since and is now called PlayMais; wondering about hunting it down again. It […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Uncategorized Tagged With: essy crafts, kids craft materials, olympic crafts, playmais, smurfs

More Sport Hama Bead Designs & Home Ed Life.

June 30, 2012 by

So the Olympics are coming and my sporty girls have entered into the spirit it and helped me get some Hama Bead patterns together. They’ve been very creative and we’ve put a free set of ideas (I’ve lost my design disk… again 🙁 ) on BeadMerrily for Hama Bead enthusiasts. There are a few Maddy […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Hama Beads Tagged With: free hama bead designs, free sport hama bead ideas, gold medal in hama beads, hama bead gymnast, hama bead medals, hama bead olympic torch, hama bead swimmer, hama beads, ideas for olympic crafts, olympics in hama beads, taekwondo in hama beads

Klimt inspired art.

May 17, 2012 by

I needed a shove today to get creative (actually, I needed several shoves just to get upright 🙁 ) and thankfully Maggie from Red Ted Art came through with her new Kids Get Arty linky. As an aside, Maggie did a lovely guest post for me on MuddlePuddle the other week, which is a really […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Exploring Artists, Fimo Models Tagged With: collage, Discovering artists, exploring modern art with children, fimo collage, Klimt collage, Klimt with kids, tree of life

Easter Holiday Occupation

April 24, 2012 by

Wow, what a busy few days we’ve had. Ben has had his first night away from home, I’ve had my first day fending for myself in the real world with a baby (!), we’ve had baby jabs and gym competitions and goodness knows what. And we are still dealing with the hopeless reality of BT […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Home Education, Lego, Spring Crafts, Uncategorized Tagged With: easter, easter crafts, easter lego, lego houses, school

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