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Some craft love for you today. With the school holidays upon us I just wanted to share with you today a few small ways I organise to do crafts in our home. I have spoken earlier about getting a craft ready the night before if we are doing something on a work day. Having everything ready to go saves a lot of time and means you can get straight into getting your craft on instead of trying to find everything.
We are on holidays at the moment so not having to get up in the morning and go to work makes for a MUCH more relaxed morning. Now I can just put together our “actiwity” as Flynn calls it during the day on our little trays. Then when we are ready, Oliver is napping etc we can get started.
OK well some of you might still have them ; ) Long shot I know but come Sunday afternoon I know for one I was a little sick of chocolate (gasp! yes it is true) and so I used a bag of our eggs to create this little cookie creation.
Ingredients-
I hope you and your family enjoyed a fabulous Easter together : ) Sharing this time with family and friends is what this time is all about- feeling thankful and rejoicing in the sacrifices made for us to all be here today and yesterday and tomorrow. I for one am feeling very grateful for healthy family.
The Easter bunny left the boys some specials treats, and that messy bunny even left some footprints….
This is Jen posting 
Poor Jade has a broken power cable so asked me to post this for you all.
Sometimes it is the smallest thing that can brighten your little ones day- a bunny straw is an excellent example of this : )
Have a great Thursday
For the love of more crafting.
Some little chickens- again incorporating the little ones handprints which I just love, love, love. I am not quite sure why but there is something about the shape of the little hands and feet of my boys which makes me smile every time I walk past them on the wall.
I started with the fabulous download from the Little delightful blog HERE. I printed this on cardstock and cut them both out before I started. Flynn agreed to paint the “fluff” on Oliver’s chicken as he is a bit little for painting.
I have a simple little craft for you today that might be great for your Sunday with the kids.
I simply traced around one of our easter egg plates and then we glued the paper and started added some buttons.
I love the idea of turning my children crafts into artwork : ) They make such wonderful and creative things and were I can I like to be able to display them for everyone to see.
The fridge in the standard place for us for the mountain of stuff coming home from school , but with this little craft we did the other day I wanted to display it somewhere special- I am a sucker for anything with a handprint on.
Not every craft has to be a huge production, lot of effort of lots of money. I have found sometimes to simplest of crafts can be fabulous and very well received by Flynn. I want to share with you today a few super simple and easy crafts we did up at the table waiting for dinner to be ready. I love doing writing or colouring as a before dinner activity if Simon is cooking as it is great quality time but also calms Flynn down before he starts dinner.
Firstly free downloads. My oh my there are oh SO many great crafts resources out there online for you to enjoy and use just google Easter colouring and you will have more than your could ever use. I just printed out this little easter egg sheet and we coloured in each egg.
Why yes the decorating has begun.
Now just for a quick word I why I start this at home so very early. A month out from every holiday (minus Christmas this starts a lot earlier) is when I usually try to start thing, planning, prepping and decorating in readiness. Why? Well the earlier you start the more organised you are, the more ideas you have, the less stressed you feel and the easier it is to find what you are looking for at the shops and the better it is on the budget.
There are lots and lots of reasons to consider starting to plan your holiday when the stuff hits the shelves at the shops. Most people complain about how early easter eggs appear in Coles. Me? I LOVE it. As I can start buying, planning and baking now, every weekend we can do a new fun craft/ activity and not be trying to cram it all into the 4 day break.
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