Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – crafting a natural Christmas. I love all the sparkle and glitz of the season and it just wouldn’t be the same without some glitter and tinsel. But there is something so beautiful in the simplicity of natural decorations, using nature’s gifts to help decorate. This week’s
A constant theme among the grandmothers in my circle has been a feeling of contentment – a sense that their life has come full circle and is complete. There is no argument this is a wonderful feeling, but what if I told you that the contentment you’re feeling now could lead to
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project, funtastic gifts for Christmas. These little gifts come straight from the heart but do not require special skills and expensive materials. In fact, they are funtastic. They include a gorgeous teacup garden, a decorative tin, a personalised mug and a chalk board cutting board.
Dunny, outhouse, lavatory, loo, whatever you call it, the toilet is a luxury often taken for granted. The average person spends around three years of their life sitting on the toilet. That’s if they’re lucky enough to have access to one. Around 2.5 billion people in the world do not. They can be deadly
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project. This week I have some super cute and fabulous jewellery crafts, some that can be done in literally seconds! The projects include some cute Christmas earrings made out of cardboard, a ridiculously easy necklace and bracelet using headbands, and how to turn kid art into wearable bling.
When you come across a cardboard box, what do you see? For many, the answer will be a box. Others will see a container in which to store things. For crafters, the answer is possibilities.
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – making homemade toys. This week’s instructions are for a homemade bouncing ball, a catapult and a paper plate dinosaur. Every child loves getting new toys but the joy and satisfaction they get from making their own are even better. Teaching kids to make their own toys
Please note this is fiction and any similarity between real people is purely coincidental. Anna stifled a sob as she lay on the cold ground assessing the damage and the imminent danger. She was lying face down in the dirt after tripping over some unseen protrusion in her haste to escape the taunting
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – spooky art for Halloween. This is actually a collage and a great project to teach kids how to achieve balance in an artwork. I cheated when I did this project with my art students, many of whom do not have the fine motor skills for
I was very tempted to leave this page blank. I mean, do you really want to know anything about toilet paper? It’s one of life’s necessities (except for the four billion people in the world who don’t use it) that we don’t really think about. Yet, a survey that asked what people would
