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So we read Tubby and the Lantern again and and again…

It is such a lovely story filled with adventure and surprises on every page not to mention… No one expects that when Tubby starts making his enormous lantern that the story will involve traveling to distant lands and only just escaping pirates and getting [...]

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Not my usual Tuesday crafty post - but my kids made such cool gifts for each other this Christmas that I just have to share. This has to be my last Christmas Post for this year!

Let’s just explain the ground rules: They draw names from a hat. Only one gift to be made for each [...]

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In the Week That Was - 24 I mentioned that we had received Up and Down the Andes, from The Picnic Basket…

This is a brilliant book packed with facts, beautiful artwork and a fantastically smooth rhythmic poem winding you through the Andes… Just wrapping your tongue around the strange and mysterious place names on each [...]

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This post is part of my Clearly Christmas Series - packed with gift ideas and Christmas tips.
Keep in mind that the thing with handmade gifts is that you want them to be lovely and not fragile and well just more creative than handy! If you give your kids free reign they may well go quite [...]

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So, time for a Tuesday Art Task… This was meant to be a quick one and it turned out far trickier than we expected. In fact, it is far easier to make shadow puppets than shadow people!
This is what you are aiming for:

 
So here we go…
Step 1: Pop a piece of paper onto the glass [...]

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Tuesday Art Task Time: How many brilliant art projects haven’t been inspired by the brilliant Eric Carle and his wonderful papers. Our favorite book of his, well there are countless - but the one we are enjoying at the moment is:

So we started out with paints and blank paper.

And we got painting…

And before you know [...]

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So The Celebrity Chef had a fourth birthday celebration and we needed to whip up a Party Project… right there, right then.

So along with his Lemon Party Theme: The Lemon Meringue Pie and The Lemonade we prepared a quick feast with all the elements of a great party craft for little people. Drawing on [...]

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