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Crafts for Kids, the easy way.
My 3 younger boys, ages 8, 9 and 11 love hands on projects, make and do, art, and anything that makes a mess. I am forever looking for crafts for kids that require very little instruction,...
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Crafts for Kids, the easy way part 2
Part 1 Part 2: This morning kids wanted to do some more crafts. Sunday means nothing to them, don’t they know it’s my day off? Never mind, with Ancient Far East Discovery Kit craft for kid is [...]The...
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A’va-go, soon to be best selling board game!
My boys love board games, as I may have mentioned once or twice. Sometimes, however, they get frustrated with the rules inflicted on them by the original board game designers. What better way to fix...
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Insect Graveyard
Mud and insects, my boys love both. If I send the kids outside, to get out from under my feet, they often end up playing with one or the other. The mud survives, the insects often don’t. Because of the...
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Crafts for kids, the easy way part 3
When we got our Ancient Far East Discovery Kit the boys jumped right in and did the ‘fun’ activities, the fish and the Kokeshi dolls, then the box was forgotten about, and put away. Typical! The other...
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Handmade Christmas Cards
Happy New Year to all our readers. I hope the New Year brings you peace, joy and lots of love. Did everyone have a good Christmas? I hope so. We did. It was quiet, and we spent a lot of quality time...
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Pinterest is Evil!
Last Christmas I made a fatal mistake, I showed my boys something on Pinterest. Up until then they have been happily making their own creations; toilet roll men, ships, swords, shields from boxes, you...
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Valentine’s Day
My first year with IrishDev he sent me the mandatory first-year-together Valentine’s Day bunch of roses. I loved the gesture, and the thought but the spending on over priced flowers on one day bothers...
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The Paper Factory
On the morning of Valentine’s Day I was awoken to happy children waiting in virtual silence so as to not wake me prematurely… NOT. After I received my cards and gifts, I was invited to go shopping....
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Toilet Roll Monsters
I showed you a couple of weeks ago the reindeer that my boys have been making with toilet rolls. This was not their toilet roll first love. I have asked my younger two IrishKing, aged 9, and IrishDoom,...
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Make your Own Birthday Cakes
IrishDoom counted down the days to his big day, and last Friday couldn’t come quickly enough. Now, on a normal school morning getting out of bed is a slow process. He often lies in bed for a few...
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Nailed It!
Who wouldn’t want a shrunken head to decorate their bedroom, or hang on the door as a welcome to visitors, or maybe even decorate the dinner table? My boys saw this craft in The Encyclopedia of...
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