Free floral meadow embroidery pattern
Printable snowman craft for kids
Happy birthday to Hodge Podge Craft!
Hodge Podge Craft is a whole year old and I’m having a round up of my most popular posts!
The Cardboard Castle (a recycled photo story)
A cardboard castle can inspire fun creative role-play and story-telling – take a look!
How-to: busy mum’s Christmas door decoration
This Christmas door decoration will make your house look festive for free in just a few minutes!
Save the Children’s Woolly Wonderland – free Christmas jumper crafting workshops
Woolly Wonderland – a Christmas pop-up for Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day is offering free story-telling sessions, knitting tips, jumper customisation and craft workshops!
How to make aged pirate party invites or an authentic treasure map!
The first in a series of pirate party tutorial posts: how to make aged invitations using tea (including a free Word template)
Yaaarrrr…
How to wrap a gift: beautiful paper feathers
Want to make a gift look extra-special?
How about making some gorgeous paper feathers to decorate it with?
These only take 10 minutes to make!
10 clever ideas for paper airplanes for kids
Decorate a robot craft idea (with free printable)
Need a robot craft activity that will keep the kids busy for at least 30 minutes, but don’t want loads of prep or to clear up for hours afterwards?
Here’s your answer (includes free printable)…
Personalised paper planes (guest post at The Pin Junkie)
A fun, simple, low-cost craft idea that can help children with literacy, name-recognition, gross and fine-motor skills. See post for link to how-to…
A waistcoat for Nonno bear (a Build-a-Bear pattern)
A special gift for a very special bear.
Simple Build-A-Bear waistcoat pattern and how-to.
PlayDoh with Diggers!
Need 30 minutes to yourself?
What could be more fun than PlayDoh? PlayDoh with diggers of course!
Step-by-step: Lidded favour boxes made from old birthday and Christmas cards
Step-by-step: cute lidded favour boxes from old birthday/Christmas cards.
Great up-cycling idea to do in a classroom/playgroup…
20 Reasons to Paint Rocks (I kid you not!) part 2
More brilliant ideas to paint rocks: story stones, wedding favours & more! (SEE PART ONE HERE)
A fun, easy, low prep, (almost) free activity.
20 Reasons to Paint Rocks (yes, really!) part 1
Craft ideas for kids: Cardboard Box Play House
Got a huge cardboard box? Don’t throw it away!
Make a little house for the kids and let them decorate it…
Craft ideas for kids: Origami flapping bird tutorial
Easy step-by-step tutorial: how to make an origami flapping bird.
Fun and free to make!