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Dec10

DIY Christmas #4: Button Bulbs

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DIY Christmas #4: Button Bulbs
DIY Christmas #4: Button Bulbs

 

Oh how I love these bulbs… Buttons, buttons and more buttons! This one is more for older kids if you want to do it neatly with a glue gun as the buttons are too heavy for glues that don’t dry as quick but younger kids can probably do something similar with craft glue and something other than buttons.

You will need:

  • Polystyrene balls (purchased at CNA, PNA and Crazy Store in South Africa)
  • Glue Gun
  • Lots of buttons (Also purchased at Craft stores. I bought mine at CNA)
  • Scissors
  • Rope, ribbon or lace

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Step 1:

Now before you get all excited about all the buttons and start glueing like me, take a scissor and make a hole for the rope. I added the photos from a previous post cause with this one I accidentally got ahead of myself.

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Step 2:

Squirt a little glue inside and quickly insert the rope.

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Make sure there’s enough glue to hold, squirt a little on top if neccessary.

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Step 3:

Now you can glue your heart out… its best to glue the button instead of the polystyrene ball as the glue can melt the ball and its better for exact placing of the buttons. 

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When done, it will look something like this… the best of all is that each ball will look different!

DIY Christmas, Button Bulbs
DIY Christmas, Button Bulbs

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Nov20

DIY Christmas #1: Flower Bulb

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DIY Christmas #1: Flower Bulb
DIY Christmas #1: Flower Bulb

 

Ive been busy with creating DIY Christmas ornaments and will be sharing them in the following month. Here is my first attempt at a globe made from recycled materials. It may cost you if you don’t have the tools but if you do, its very cheap. I made my own version, but saw the original post HERE. Read the rest of this entry →

Nov12

Bouncy Frozen Glitter Slime!

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Bouncy Frozen Glitter Slime!
Bouncy Frozen Glitter Slime!

 

This is such a fun project to do with toddlers and its super easy!

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What you’ll need:

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  • 2 bowls and a cup measure
  • Access to warm and cold water
  • Teaspoon and mixing spoon
  • Craft/ office glue (Elmers glue) 
  • Borax
  • Gel food coloring (or any form of coloring) 
  • Glitter (optional)

 

Step 1:

Mix 1/2 cup glue with 1/2 cup water

Add coloring and glitter

Mix well

Step 2:

Mix 1/2 cup cold water with 1/4 cup boiled or warm water

Add 2 tspoons borax 

Mix well

Step: 3

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Pour glue mix into borax

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Start taking all the glue out with your fingers and the glue will magically transform into bouncy frozen glitter slime! You can break it and press it back together again and bounce it around when its settled enough. 

Make sure to store it in a glass container to ensure it doesn’t dry out. It happens within a day if not in a sealed container!

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TIP!

Sell it as an Entrepreneurs project or make it for Christmas gifts!

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Oct19

Frozen Boys & Girls FREE Printable Party Invites!

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Frozen Boys & Girls FREE Printable Party Invites!
Frozen Boys & Girls FREE Printable Party Invites!

Finally its time for some FREE Party Printables! This week its Frozen. I found that boys also love Frozen but really struggle to find Printables so I designed one specially for them. Click on the link below to download, open in Word or any other editing programme and insert your own info. Alternatively you can also print it out and write it by hand.  Read the rest of this entry →

Oct1

Crafty Kids Competition!

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Crafty Kids Competition!
Crafty Kids Competition!

 

Hey Moms of Crafty Kids, here’s a great competition for 4-13 year olds to show their Craftiness! One awesome Kid from each category will win a R250 voucher from takealot.com. If a US reader wins, they will win a $20 voucher from Amazon.com.

The two categories are:

  • 4-8 Years
  • 9-13 Years

The instructions:

Kids, make a creation of your own with found objects like recycled materials and whatever Crafty stuff you can find at home, like paper plates, toilet rolls, yoghurt containers, tin foil… use your imagination but REMEMBER… Read the rest of this entry →

Sep9

Easy DIY Face Paint

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Easy DIY Face Paint

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I found this great, easy to make Face Paint recipe on Popsugar.com and decided I had to share! This is fairly easy to make but does take a bit of time as each color must be mixed
separately. You’ll do better than me if you have a bigger little mixing container for each color rather than having to wash the mixing bowl after every color. I used acrylic water bas Read the rest of this entry →

Mar5

Cardboard Quiet Book DIY

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Cardboard Quiet Book DIY
Cardboard Quiet Book DIY
When my husband wanted to take my 2yo daughter on a business trip with him I knew we were going to need some In-Flight Activities to keep her busy. I made this in a rush the night before so I think I will do one of these properly again, but for this one I just wanted to make something fun for her to do. I sent her off the next morning with a backpack filled with snacks, Pipe cleaners, colored Ice Cream sticks and this book and a sticker book for the activities in the book. It seemed to do the trick and
this is what I did:

 

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I found a bunch of scraps of cardboard left over from other activities and some glue-pens, markers etc. and some stickers. I didn’t have much to choose from sticker wise but I found sea animals and flowers so I thought I could make a page for the sea activity and a page for the garden activity.  I also had some bows and butterflies etc. made for creating cards so I counted what I had of what and used that as the counting page since Hanlé has become really interested in counting as of late.
  • Use A4 cardboard for the cover if you like, and about 10 A4 pages for the rest
  • Get all of them together neatly and fold all of them together in half (don’t staple yet)
  • Keep the book together as if it was stapled as you need the order of the pages to work out in the end. Now you can either Plot your pages and start working from the back, as it becomes difficult to write on the back of a page once you have glued layers of cardboard and bows on the other side (activity page). If you use glitter glue like me, you will also need to take those pages out to dry so doing the back first will save some time BUT if you are not going to use glitter glue and don’t mind a thick book, feel free to staple and start from the front, then you can write the activities on a separate piece of cardboard, cut it out with a nice pattern scissor and just glue it on the left sides to the backs of the activity pages.
  • If you start from the back, write the activity on the left page and create your activity on the right… take note of the page that goes with it to the right as the order will be messed up once you take it apart for all the glitter glue to dry.
  • Draw a few coloring pages with open pages in between… its important for creativity to draw their own pictures too!
  • Once everything is glued and dried (for me it was the next morning), re-order your book, open it up and press it against a soft surface like a couch with the cover facing up. Open up your stapler and staple three times along the centre fold (one in middle and one on each side) to ensure the book is fixed properly. (Note: Staplers staple at least 1-2 mm below the edge so align it with the fold and take it up a bit before you staple otherwise the staples wont align with the fold and your book will have a new centre fold!)
  • Stick all the stickers that belong in a scene on one page of the sticker book and add some extra random stickers for free play. This is their book so they should have fun creative pages for themselves as well.
  • If you are sending your toddler away with the book, remember to send the sticker book and some crayons to draw with.

This is what it looked like when it came back… I was impressed as I thought there would be torn pages and Dora stickers in the sea and fish in the garden but it seems daddy took note of the instructions 🙂

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Dec25

DIY Sewing Kit

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DIY Sewing Kit
DIY Sewing Kit

This is so easy to make even for kids though not cheap at R150 for all the accessories but so worth it as a gift for anyone who loves sewing and will appreciate expensive (or even cheap dollar store) new threads and accessories.

What you will need: Just a glass bottle (I re-used a jam jar and stuck a spindle of pins on the lid to make it look new) and whatever you want to put in it. Read the rest of this entry →

Dec25

DIY Book Page Utensil Holder

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DIY Book Page Utensil Holder
DIY Book Page Utensil Holder
I saw these cans in a restaurant once. They used small soda cans for cutlery that was covered with rolled up book pages and I thought they were beautiful and that it would make a great DIY gift. I made mine a little bigger and used it for a Teacher’s Survival Kit. Its not really cheap to make this, my total cost was R190 but it can be free depending on what you put in the can as Read the rest of this entry →