Category Archives: Art and Craft Ideas

How to Draw Book Review

Posted on April 22, 2019 by ofamily

We have been working on our drawing skills lately and one of the resources that I have really enjoyed using with the kids is this book by DK  –  How to Draw The book starts with a general introduction into … Continue reading →

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Fun, Easy, Colourful Paper Pictures

Posted on April 20, 2019 by ofamily

We have been having a super chilled few days and had some fun playing around with some new colourful paper that we bought. We started off with a few colouring pages (simple colour pages are easier) and we selected the … Continue reading →

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Tracing is so much more than just tracing

Posted on January 26, 2019 by ofamily

My son loves tracing pictures.  He will often stick a colouring page up on one of the sliding doors, stick a piece of paper over and trace the picture.  Now I know tracing is NOT the same as drawing, it … Continue reading →

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Christmas lanterns from Twinkl

Posted on December 6, 2018 by ofamily

My kids love displaying decorations on our window ledges.  There is just something about Christmas that makes them want to full up all the window space with Christmas decorations.  This year we spotted the Christmas Lanterns on the Twinkl Resources … Continue reading →

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Fun Christmas Cone People

Posted on November 30, 2018 by ofamily

The past week we have all been very slowly recovering some flu and have not done a lot of our usual activities, instead the kids have started with all their Christmas crafts.  One of the ones we worked on this … Continue reading →

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