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DIY Rainbow Christmas Tree Craft

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DIY Rainbow Christmas Tree Craft

These DIY Rainbow Christmas Trees are so easy to make as it mainly involves painting and decorating.  This craft encourages creativity as you can decorate your Christmas tree however you like. Great for encouraging fine motor skills and creative thinking too!

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DIY Toilet Roll Aliens

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DIY Toilet Roll Aliens

This DIY toilet roll alien craft is brilliant for encouraging creative thought. Your alien creations can be as varied and colourful as the craft supplies that you own! I wasn’t surprised that the boys painted all of their aliens in different colours… their painting projects have all been colourful lately. This is a great activity for developing fine motor skills through all of the painting and gluing – we even threaded some beads onto the alien arms as we were having so much fun with it.

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Chocolate Fudge Brownies Recipe

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Chocolate Fudge Brownies Recipe

Gooey, decadent chocolate fudge brownies.  These are also an ideal baking activity to make with the little ones - or for older kids to try to make on their own.

These brownies can be served either hot or cold, with ice-cream or cream. An easy, simple and classic chocolate fudge brownie recipe that is a fail-safe with any crowd.  We know that there are many brownies recipes out there... but trust me - this one's a definite winner!

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DIY Tweetie Birds

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DIY Tweetie Birds

We’re crafting with our favourite material once again – toilet rolls!  It’s our favourite material because it is always readily available and we get to reuse and recycle something that would otherwise be thrown away.  It is never too early to teach little ones the importance of recycling and looking after our environment.

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How to make a recycled tissue box monster

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How to make a recycled tissue box monster

My big boy and I attempted to craft a recycled tissue box monster - inspired by Halloween and one of our favourite books "Monster Chef".

We gave gave him vicious talons, sharp spikes, savage horns and black mangey hair!

Despite all this, he remains loveable, so in the end we named him Marcel after Nick Bland’s book “Monster Chef”. Our Marcel is no chef though, his specialty is hugs!

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