Watercolour Paper Flowers
My Mum used make lots of paper flowers when our family was living in the Malaysia. They were very small, like blossom. These watercolour paper flowers, are a lot bigger, but they do remind me of hers.
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Oil and Water Marbling Trays
It has been a long time since I have done marbling with my charges, so long in fact, that all the marbling ink has dried out. Never fear. We can make our own oil and water marbling trays.
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Pasta Butterflies
A few years ago we turned some pasta shells into giant pasta snails. Now we are moving onto farfalle pasta and making pasta butterflies. I’ve been a bit wary about doing crafts and activities that use food at t...
Chinese Dragon Puppets for Spring Festival
This year Spring Festival (Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year) will be taking place on 1st February. Over the past year I have been learning Mandarin and about the Chinese culture, which I have been asked to s...
Winter Jumper Weaving Activity
Before Christmas I was sewing a unicorn decoration and BB said told me “Let me do it Nana, I can sew.” Bless him, seeing as he has been super interested in sewing recently, I set up a winter jumper weaving act...
Mini Hand Warmers
Does anyone else suffer from the cold? Don’t get me wrong, I much prefer cool weather to hot, but my hands and feet suffer so much during the colder seasons. I spend large parts of my day trying to stop them fr...
Chinese Scenery Pictures
I had some really lovely art scenery ideas show up on my social media the other week, which was a great timing as YC was doing an art project for school which involved her filling up a sketch book. These Chine...
Pressed Flower Cookies
One thing that YC and I love to do during the spring and summer is to pick flowers and leaves, then press them. Generally, we forget about them until we come to put new ones in, but we haven’t really done anyt...
Egg Carton Treasure Chest
International talk like a pirate day is on September 19th and this year I was determined to have a post ready for it. Never mind that I actually did the activity with BB back in January. During our home schoo...
Acrylic Sun Print T-Shirts
Have you ever done sun printing? We have done it with sugar paper in the past, this time however, we have been making some acrylic sun print t-shirts. The weather was perfect over the last week to make these,...
