This is a super easy craft that requires little more than an empty container from the recycling bin, a bit of scrap yarn and some glue or double sided tape. Tools and Materials Required: clean empty rigid container – we used cocoa and yeast flake cans because they have a gorgeous silver lining but you …
We are continuing to enjoy crafting from our Minecraft based crafting book* by Choly Knight. This week E decided to make a creeper head so we combined Choly’s creeper face design and instructions for her Steve head and came up with this! It was dead easy and we re-used some IKEA packaging (yes, I am …
It’s that time of year again, time to get your spook on! We’re continuing with our love of Hama/Perler beads and have been googling pixel art to inspire us. Below is my daughter E, 7, building an epic Toothless found on the interwebs. We’ve purchased some glow in the dark Hobbycraft beads for Halloween and although …
On one of my many charity shop forays I found this wonderful Minecraft based crafting book* by Choly Knight. I first discovered Choly Knight when I needed to make a gift for my daughter for her birthday. She has a fantastic website with free plushie, bag and home decor patterns that reflect her love of …
So as it’s nearly Halloween I thought I’d make a suitable hat. I’ve had some orange yarn sitting around for ages since I bought it at the closing down sale of my local yarn store (sob) and it’s finally cold enough to think of knitting again. All summer long I just want to sew pretty …
Out of the blue one day my daughter decided she needed a kite, like, right now. So to the trusty interwebs I went and discovered a tutorial on making a diamond kite. However, failing to have any dowels, large plastic bags or flying line I improvised. So here is my upcycled version of the classic …
