Stick Crafts – Shadow Puppet
Chaos writes: Here’s a very simple stick craft we’ve been doing this week… great shadow puppets inspired by Chinese New Year this weekend: You’ll need some sticks (!) from the garden, or as we do,...
View ArticleBottle Lid Monster
Chaos writes: 8yo wanted to personalise his book bag so that he can spot it, at a glance, amongst all of the identical school book bags, piled high on the playground floor. So we made the most of the...
View ArticleMonster Craft Ideas to make from your Kids’ Art
Chaos writes: What do you do with all of your children’s art, how can you preserve them as keepsakes? My 10 yo is always drawing little mono monsters and aliens, so was delighted to be able to preserve...
View ArticleToilet roll crafts – bird seed feeder
Chaos writes: The one thing I really struggle to put into the recycling bin, is the toilet roll tubes, I can always think there is SOMETHING we can make with them, whether it’s planting seedlings in...
View ArticlePine Cone Crafts – Hedgehog
Chaos writes: Looking for something different to make with the air-drying clay we bought AGES ago from my namesake the poet Graham Clifford at Canonbury Arts, when I was working in Islington. And at...
View ArticlePapier-mâché seedling pots from cereal boxes
Chaos writes: So… what does one do with cereal boxes, if you can’t bear to stick them in the recycling, how about cooking up some cute little Papier-mâché seedling pots. We ripped the cardboard cereal...
View ArticleFather’s Day pencil end keyring
Chaos writes: Oh how I struggle to throw anything away, particularly, if it’s small and sweet like these tiny pencil stubs I’ve been squirreling away for some time! What to do WITH them? 10yo came up...
View ArticleBeer Bottle Lids Castanets
Chaos writes: We love the whole idea of upcycling our ‘junk’ here at Kids Chaos, and wanted to share this fab idea for making some clacky castanets… You will need: Beer bottle lids Cardboard Glue Draw...
View ArticleJigsaw Puzzle Piece crafts – Greetings Cards
Chaos writes: So – the challenge to MAKE something with spare jigsaw puzzle pieces… And I think we’ve cracked it with these greetings cards. The shape of the puzzle piece with the ‘sticky out bits’...
View ArticleFun Felt Finger Puppets
So – the challenge was on… several scraps of felt, and half an hour to kill… the boys wanted a Yoda, so we got to work. Ingredients: Felt Googly Eyes Scissors Glue Gun (or PVA) We each of us drew …...
View ArticleLolly Stick Bi-Planes
A nice quick and easy craft for you today… you need five recycled ice lolly sticks for each plane (that’s a lot of lolly-licking – you CAN buy popsicle sticks in bulk though!) The first bi-plane we...
View ArticleFather’s Day Cork Printable
A nice quick and easy Father’s Day Monster Truck card for you to download, print off, and add your own touch with these slices of cork… any excuse for another glass of wine eh?! Simple to do… take a...
View ArticleHow to make a Despicable Me Minion keyring or badge
You can’t miss the posters – Despicable Me is back (and I can’t help amusing myself by calling it ’This Pic about me’ – as that’s what my small children thought it was called….) So, as you know, I’m on...
View ArticleFlowers and Leaves and Andy Goldsworthy
Follow my blog with Bloglovin This week my darling boys got busy with some Andy Goldsworthy style flower arranging! Well, they made some gloopy papier mache glue (recipe here: two parts water, one part...
View ArticleHalloween Skull potato print party bags
What is it with skulls? There is something so graphically appealing about them… and with several small boys to entertain for yet another birthday party, I decided to involve them in making wrapping...
View ArticleThemed Hampers and Gift Ideas
Themed hampers are a great idea for a gift… My lovely Mum has, over the last few years, built me a ‘foodie’ hamper from her trips to the local Hare Hatch garden centre (amusingly she makes us give her...
View ArticleChristmas Cards – Button Nose Rudolph
It’s that time of year…CHRISTMAS! So as ever, we set up a production line, and got busy. These cards are super-easy to make, you need an old potato (check with your child first, that he’s not saving...
View ArticleChristmas Cards – Stained Glass
Time to make your CHRISTMAS cards! So we’ve gone all churchy and made these lovely stained glass window style cards…. cutting shapes from the card, and gluing coloured tissue paper behind the...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar FREE printable
Even at aged 11 and 9 the boys are LOVING this homemade advent calendar – so easy to make, all you need is some clothes pegs, a colour printer, and some colourful paper bags and you’re away! For a FREE...
View ArticleEasy Teacher’s gifts for kids to make
The boys wanted to MAKE something for their teachers this Christmas, and LOVED these wallets my sister had made for them for their birthdays earlier in the year, so we’ve been saving our wide 1 Litre...
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