Tag Archives: Christmas ideas

My favourite Usborne Flap books

Posted on December 3, 2016 by ofamily

I recently received an email asking which book is our (my kids and mine) favourite Usborne flap book (they were referring to the Look Inside / See Inside Range of books by Usborne).  Wow what a question.  I thought about … Continue reading →

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I’m the Gingerbread Man

Posted on December 1, 2016 by ofamily

There is something about the weather turning colder, kids asking for warm baked biscuits and suddenly my two are singing ” run run as fast as you can you can’t catch me I am the …………………….. man” (they insert whatever … Continue reading →

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Nativity Cone People

Posted on November 26, 2016 by ofamily

My kids enjoy making Christmas decorations and they love the Cone People from Twinkl so when I stumbled on the Nativity Cone people (I was actually looking for another Nativity activity) I immediately printed them out for the kids.  I … Continue reading →

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Home-made Christmas tree decorations for the kids

Posted on December 13, 2015 by ofamily

My kids tend to discover something, whether it is a toy, an art technique or a simple template and then they use it for a million different activities.  This year one of our new favourite discoveries has to be the … Continue reading →

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Present boxes

Posted on December 11, 2015 by ofamily

As part of encouraging the kids to recycle we have been making a big effort to use as much of the recycling as we can in our art projects.  Our present boxes started off as just a painting old cereal … Continue reading →

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