Category Archives: Kids crafts

Done!

Whey-hey! The articles I had to do by Thursday (or before the baby’s birth, whichever comes first) are ready. OK, I still have to tweak a couple of things on one of them but that shouldn’t take too long, so I am a free woman. I know this sounds rather ridiculous, but I did sleep [...]

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California dreamin’

How I wish I lived in California, where Artsymama was teaching her Flower Banner class last week. Or, at the very least, I wish I had been faster in checking her blog and Etsy shop, where she was selling some of her banner kits. By the time I realised they were for sale, they were [...]

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Top three art projects for a preschooler

My preschooler, that is. Niccolo is back from his holiday with the grandparents (the “nonni”) and, of course, we have resumed our artistic endeavours. Just now, he has three favourite activities, in this order: 1. “drawing” letters and words. No matter how much I call it writing, he insists he is drawing. He started off [...]

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Salt drip paint and crafty mummies

There is a woman out there who is my parenting hero. She is the friend of a friend—and the proud mother of four-year-old triplets and a two-year-old boy. If you ever chance upon her blog, you’ll soon discover that she has more energy and does more stuff with her four preschoolers than I can ever [...]

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Painting with my son

Perhaps it’s because I am a crafts addict, but I like to get my son involved in painting, collageing, stamping and drawing. Niccolo’s abstract painting For me, little beats the time we sit side by side at the kitchen table, smearing temperas over a piece of paper, our fingers stained with paint.I like to let [...]

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