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Easter crafts :: easter egg bunting

21/03/2017 by Cathy James 3 Comments

With less than two weeks until the holiday weekend the NurtureStore house is now full on baking, painting and generally bursting with Easter crafts! I’ve got a great idea today for an Easter creation station, which invites the children to glue, stick, paint, tear and create to their hearts content.

easter egg bunting

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Craft activities for children :: Easter potato printing

16/03/2017 by Cathy James 5 Comments

Looking for some Easter craft activities for children? Here’s an idea that takes a childhood classic and gives it a spring-time twist – we’re potato printing chicks, lambs and rabbits!

 

Easter craft activities for children

 

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DIY clay heart bunting

04/02/2017 by Cathy James 58 Comments

I’m joining in with the 20 Days of a kid-Made Christmas fiesta today and sharing an idea for some DIY clay heart decorations, which are so pretty for hanging on the Christmas tree or as some festive bunting. Here’s the DIY clay recipe and how to make the heart decorations.

 

Great DIY homemade clay recipe. Lovely for Christmas crafts

DIY clay heart bunting

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Homemade gift wrap made with Christmas scented paint

15/12/2016 by Cathy James 4 Comments

Can you hear those jingle bells? Christmas crafting has begun! This homemade gift wrap made with Christmas scented paint is the first of many Christmas crafts that are on the way – but this one is the best smelling!

Homemade gift wrap using Christmas scented paint
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Christmas angel craft for kids

02/12/2016 by Cathy James Leave a Comment

Ever so simple, and ever so pretty: here’s how to make a Christmas angel craft for kids.

 

Lovely Christmas angel craft! Lots of Christmas crafts for kids on this site.
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Christmas salt dough recipe :: Joy!

01/12/2016 by Cathy James 6 Comments

Let’s use salt dough to create a candy cane-coloured set of letters that you can use as decorations or for spelling work.

 

Joy! A Christmas salt dough recipe ~ great for making decorations. | NurtureStore :: inspiration for kids


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Easy handprint Christmas wreath for kids

02/12/2015 by Cathy James 2 Comments

This handprint Christmas wreath is easy to make and oh so festive!

 

Easy to make and beautiful: handprint Christmas wreath

Easy handprint Christmas wreath for kids

Remember the scented Christmas paints we used to make our homemade Advent calendar? We couldn’t resist getting our hands in!

Christmas craft homemade paint

We used a roll of brown paper to stamp out lots of colourful handprints. The whole family joined in, all except for the cat ~ although my daughter was quite keen on that!

 

Christmas handprint craft

 

Then we cut them out, so we had lots of prints in a variety of sizes from little sister right the way through to daddy-size.

 

Christmas handprint crafts

 

To make our Christmas wreath, we drew round a dinner plate on some card, then drew round a side plate in the centre, to give us our ring.

 

Christmas wreath craft

 

We covered the cardboard ring in glue and started to place the handprints on.

 

handprint wreath craft

 

You can use a variety of colours, or stick with red and white. Be as random or as meticulous with your pattern as you like. You might like to use the adult-sized handprints around the outer edge, then fill in the centre with some over-lapping child-sized prints.

 

Christmas handprint wreath

 

We filled the whole circle, added a ribbon at the back, and our easy handprint Christmas wreath is ready to hang.

 

hand print Christmas wreath decoration

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