Monday, 29 March 2010

Children's Craft Showcase - Easter Eddition


I know it has been a while since I last did a craft showcase, but real life has been getting in the way of our crafting mojo, plus the first glimpses of spring have had us out and about as much as possible.

However, with Easter Nearly upon us we are starting to do a few more things and I have seen some wonderful inspiring Easter Craft post out in the Blogging community, so without further ado, I would love it you would like any children's craft posts you have and I present my Easter Edition.

Easy Easter Chick Cards


Materials

Cards
Feathers
Googly Eggs
Glue Stick
Foam or card for beaks



Fold card in half and draw and then cut out a semi circle, it doesn't have to be perfect remember, in fact having a flattish bottom allows for the card to stand better.


Stick on feathers as wings and tail and add an eye and a beak - how simple is that!


Again almost too simple, but perfect for little ones to do all on their own.

Home Made Painted Pots


I did this tutorial over at Kelly's A place of my own for the blog swap, but it is a perfect craft for over Easter with the children, so please pop on over and take a look.

Paper Mache Tissue Eggs


Materials

Egg shells
Paper Mache Glue
Tissue Paper or Newspaper


We have been collecting eggshells for planting our seeds in and rather than blowing out and decorating eggs, we decided to have a goo at piercing two halves back together and then covering in paper mache


We have been lucky enough to receive some wonderful packages in the post (more about them next week) and decided to recycle the packaging some wonderful tissue paper.  So we tore the paper in to pieces, which the boys adored doing.

For the glue I used some paper mache paste we had in the cupboard, which as bought from Asda a while ago, but you can make your own paste from flour and water.


The boys then used the tissue to cover the eggs and hold them together.  This was a really fun, but very messy project and the eggs have quite a time to dry (ours are still wet 2 days later!)


We plan to decorate them further with some beads, glitter and ribbon and hang from our twig lights.

So if I have inspired you to get crafting with your children, or you have any recent children's craft you would just like to showcase the, please add your link below:


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wonderful -I'm always amazed at the crafting you do with the Minis & love seeing it
Cute chicks! You've not lost your mojo ;)
Love it as ever! Little minis busy and happy! suzie xxx
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mrs yappy dog · 782 weeks ago

lovely, wish I had someone small enough to do this, I love the flower pots.
Wonderful crafts - good to see the MiniMads keeping busy.
Your children will always be the envy of their friends being able to craft as you have taught them. I absolutely adore the plant pots. We have hens here which lay around 20 eggs per day so we thought of painting some over Easter.

CJ xx
I love the cards especially. What a great idea.
What. A. List. And what a job to pull it all together! These carnivals get longer
Now, I was writing that comment after reading the carnival post... how did it end up here?
Lovely crafts, I will try the cards with my son. Thanks for sharing. I have added your children's craft showcase to my blogroll.
I love the flowerpots and am dying to try some myself but I've not been able to find any small teracotta pots yet.. grrrrr. Will hunt in a different place tomorrow. I think they're gorgeous.
I love these especially the Emma Bridgewater style pots which we are def going to do. I've popped over to your Mad House blog a few times recently and have wanted to leave a comment on each occasion but have had difficulty finding the comment area - is it just me? Having a menopausal moment?! I particularly wanted to comment on the wonderful photos of you in the photo meme thingy (Me), but it seems inappropriate to do so here and now. Just so you know! x
Those chick cards are great. Will have to get Miss Crayons churning some out :)
Loving those plant pots! Heading over to Kelly's to have a better look! :D
why aren't I following you already? I check your blog all the time so must have just forgot! I love this Easter Craft Showcase- haven't seen all of them yet but the ones I have are brilliant. Very happy my daffodil cards are on there now. x
Loooove your craft showcase! How wonderful!! :-) and so many more crafty people linking stuff, brilliant!!!

Fancy doing a Guest post for me redtedart.wordpress.com - would be more than happy to reciprocate!!!

Also doing a craft carnival (kelly nominated you for it) - DO PLEASE take part in the future. Lets spread the crafty word and inspire others!!!

Maggy
great stuff, can't wait til my little guy gets bigger to try these.

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