Craft

Made with Love - Ladybug Button Art

Made With Love Linky

Made With Love LinkyWelcome back to Made with Love with Angelique Felix.com, Mommy Labs and Rainy Day Mum – a linky to show off your me time activities. I had so much fun looking through the amazing activities that you did in your free time for yourselves or your children last month.

I am working on creating things for T’s room at the moment and wanted to show you how to make a cute little button art ladybug that I made for her room.

Ladybug button canvas art

Easy to create ladybug button [...]

5 A Day Books

Fabric Book Storage Box

Lined fabric storage box for books

Well February is almost over and I’m really no further on with my organisation than I was at the beginning of the month – but I have made a step forward today by making J a book box to store our weekly books and some of his extra favourites that always seem to be out around the house.

J was and is still Frog mad – so when I found some fat quarters with frogs on at a recent craft fayre I had to buy them. Using a nappy box my Mum (thank you Nana) helped me to create a soft fabric box large enough to store his books in [...]

Makes by Mum

Made with Love – Bean Bags

DIY Bean Bags

Welcome back to Made With Love – our monthly link party to showcase your Me time activities, whether it’s sewing, painting, crafting, gardening, cooking or other crafty endeavour please share below.

Brought to you by Rainy Day Mum, Angelique Felix.com and Mommy Labs we welcome you back.

Made With Love LinkyMy me time activity has been making some bean bags (well technically rice bags) for J’s little girl friend for her birthday and J and T to play with as well.

These are very easy to make – I used fat quarters of solid fabric and folded them half, then half [...]

Links

Made with Love Linky and getting dressed feltboard make

Made With Love Linky

Made With Love LinkyWelcome to the first Made with Love Link Party and my Winter getting dressed felt board made with love. This year one I am working with him on his personal/social skills and getting dressed is one of the main ones especially with the Potty Training going on at the moment.

So in the process to get him used to getting dressed we have brought a sticker book which he is loving sticking the clothes on the children for [...]

Links

Made with Love - Introduction

I am so excited to be announcing that next week Angelique from Angeliquefelix.com: The Magic of Play and I will be hosting a new link Party Made with Love.

Although a lot of our time is spent creating with our children and facilitating them making and playing from some recent posts on the blogs that I read it became obvious that we are making and creating things as well, whether it’s for our children, home, garden, in the kitchen, for ourselves or for others. So from a small idea that it would be great to share these ideas in one [...]

Activity

Advent of activities – Creative Christmas Countdown

Rudolph our Advent of Activities holder

Well Tomorrow is the 1st of December (it really seems to come round quicker each year) and this year as well as J’s chocolate advent I have made us as a family a Reindeer advent calendar for our advent of activities for December.

So tomorrow morning J will come down stairs and Rudolph will be there with his envelopes with activities in for us to do as a family.

Our activities are varied from crafts, and family outings to traditional Christmas celebrations including taking J to our local church’s services for children something that [...]