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How to make a wedding bouquet

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wedding costume dressing up

It’s all about weddings at the moment. I don’t think L knows there’s a royal wedding on the way but maybe it’s just a case of love in the air because all of a sudden she wants to wear a wedding costume and dress up as a bride. And every bride needs some flowers right? Here’s our quick and easy version of how to make a wedding bouquet.

make tissue paper flowers

We used the same technique we used when we made our opulent tissue paper flowers for our Mothers’ Day flower craft (follow the link for full instructions). Once we had five or six flowers we simply fastened the drinking straw stems together with sticky tape and the blushing bride had her beautiful bouquet.

how to make a dressing up pretend bouquet

Easy-peasy and ever so pretty. A wedding bouquet fit for a queen!

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Un-toys for babies #2

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discovery play for babies
Our last SUPERbaby post was about all the wonderful play items you can find around the home and use to make a treasure basket for your baby to explore. As you can see from these picture our SUPERbaby poster girl has discovered something else which makes a fabulous, frugal and fun toy for little ones: shoe boxes!

Sturdy enough for some baby-handling, they make great discovery boxes. Take some of your treasures and hide them inside for your baby to find.

Pop the lids on and let your baby begin to understand the concept of object permanence – that even if they can’t see teddy, he is still in the box. Once your baby has played with this idea for a while you could sneak teddy out and watch their surprise when they discover he’s relocated behind your back.

Offer your baby a pile of goodies and let them put things in and take things out to their heart’s content.

How about stacking the boxes to make a tower? As you baby begins to shuffle or crawl you can place the tower a little out of reach to entice them over to know it down.

And as your baby grows, shoes boxes can transform into trains or cots or houses.

More activities for babies and toddlers

Zero to Two: The Book of Play is full of fun activities for babies and toddlers. Download you copy here!

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Roller painting with cars

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painting with cars

We had fun this week roller-painting with cars. We started off with paint on some plates and we dipped the cars’ wheels in before we took them for a drive on the paper. Then B decided we should put some splodges of paint directly on the paper and let the cars roll through.

The children loved the process and there was lots of chat about traffic jams and short cuts – and the finished result was beautiful too.

With sunny weather forecast for the coming week I’m thinking this would be a great activity for outside messy play. How about a long roll of paper laid down the slide or a ramp, with the cars rolling down?

Have you ever tried painting with cars with your children?

Spring craft ebook

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spring craft ideas

Here’s a spring gift to all of you – a fabulous Spring crafts and activities ebook!

The book is full of wonderful ideas for children of all ages: egg crafts, rainy days ideas, things to try in the garden and lots more. It has been compiled by Mandi from Life…Your Way and Allie from No Time For Flashcards. It features ideas from fifteen bloggers from around the world – including me! Take a look at their ideas and click though to their blogs to find lots more inspiration.

The Spring craft ebook is free to download – please help yourself and I hope you have fun trying out the ideas in it!

Click here to download your free Spring Craft eBook

 

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