Easy to Make Paper Spiral Decorations Nanny Anita 21 December, 2018 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Christmas, Christmas Activities I am not totally sure what to call this particular craft, so I am going with paper spiral decorations. Not very exciting, but descriptive. I didn’t make these with my charges, instead I made them by myself to d...
White Clay Decorations Nanny Anita 19 December, 2018 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Christmas, Christmas Activities At home my Christmas tree has a white(ish) theme to it. Each year I buy a couple of new decorations to add. This year I fell in love with these beautiful white clay decorations. They are simple stunning when se...
Bauble Potato Printing Nanny Anita 10 December, 2018 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Christmas, Christmas Activities, Living As I looked around our nicely decorated playroom I noticed, yet again, that we seem to be missing the Christmas paintings on the wall. Our nativity set is up, the paper chains and hanging stars are in place. Bu...
Shaken Paint Ornaments Nanny Anita 7 December, 2018 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Christmas, Christmas Activities Trying to find a Christmas decoration that BB can do without too much help from me, is rather tricky. At almost 22months his fine motor stills are rather limited. Which is why these shaken paint ornaments are p...
Spirograph Decorations Nanny Anita 5 December, 2018 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Christmas, Christmas Activities I originally made this Spirograph decorations back in September! It wasn’t because I was being really organised with Christmas prep, but because I had a deadline for Little London magazine. I was super impresse...
Tape Resist Christmas Cards Nanny Anita 3 December, 2018 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Christmas, Christmas Activities Each Christmas we make our own Christmas cards to hand out. I normally then go and make loads more of them for my own ones. This years one are tape resist christmas cards, and I think that they could possibly b...
Golden Snitch Christmas Decorations Nanny Anita 12 December, 2017 Arts & Crafts, Christmas, Christmas Activities, Living You might have noticed over the past couple of years that we have done quite a few Harry Potter based activities and crafts. To date we have made dragon eggs, dementors, wand wind chimes, and held a potions cla...
Melted Bead and Salt Dough Christmas Decorations Nanny Anita 7 December, 2017 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living A few years ago we made some melted bead decorations. They are without a doubt my favourite ornaments that we have made to date. I just love the way the Christmas lights make them sparkle. They look like mini s...
Fillable Snowman Ornaments Nanny Anita 5 December, 2017 Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Living For Valentines this year we made little gumball machines out of fillable ornaments. As we only needed a couple it meant that we had a lot of ornaments left over. What better way to use them up then turn them in...
Button Christmas Cards Nanny Anita 30 November, 2017 Activities and Days Out, Arts & Crafts, Blogger, Christmas, Christmas Activities, Living Each year I start thinking about possible Christmas card ideas for my charges as early as the summer. Over the past 4 Christmases that I have been with them we have made a nice variety of cards. Including; peng...
