A GIFT FOR THE PLANET Christmas is the day after tomorrow and before we get all sweet and emotional I’m going to tell you STOP! When the gifts have been opened and the food is eaten up you’re faced with the massive clean. It’s so easy to just chuck everything in bags for
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – making Santa. SANTA – THE LEGEND LIVES ON Santa, that magical man with the round little belly that shakes when he laughs like a bowl full of jelly, has captured the imagination of children, and adults, for centuries. His legend traces back to the monk, St
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – making angels. Angels play an important role in our celebrations of Christmas and are often seen topping trees. Soon after people first started decorating Christmas trees they started pretending that the angels had done the decorating, to make Christmas more exciting for children. They strung streamers
Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – making reindeer. This may surprise you but Rudolph barely made it into existence. That wonderful reindeer with the bright red nose was created in 1939 by Robert L. May for a Chicago-based company, Montgomery Ward. The retailer used to buy and give away colouring books and
CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO MAKE Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – Christmas gifts to make. As I promised in Make 5 Irresistible Jewellery Gifts in 5 Minutes for Less Than $5, I am sharing some more projects for quick and inexpensive Christmas gifts to make. Each of these projects can be made in under 10
THESE JEWELLERY CRAFTS TAKE LESS THAN 5 MINUTES EACH TO MAKE Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – making jewellery. This is the first of two Wacky Workshops projects for Christmas gift ideas as promised in my post 3 Brilliant Steps to Save Christmas Stress and Money. These very simple and inexpensive projects are great
Welcome to another Wacky Wednesday project – transforming children’s art. Do you have some budding little artists in your life? Do you feel like you’re drowning in their artwork? Once kids get started they can produce art at an alarmingly fast rate. Before you know it you have literally hundreds of pages of paintings and
Hi, and welcome to another Wacky Wednesday project – making turquoise jewellery. You won’t believe the secret ingredient we are using to make it.
PRESCHOOL PAINTING Hi and welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – preschool paint projects. People are often telling me they have no idea where to start when it comes to painting with preschoolers. The idea of the mess scares them and they feel without the talent of Picasso, they have nothing
Halloween ghosts, bats and monsters to make Welcome to another Wacky Workshops project – celebrating Halloween. What is it about Halloween that gets our imagination so excited? Is it because Halloween is the one occasion it’s considered really cool to show off your creativity? Is it because we like to be scared? Some
