Hallowe’en Pumpkin Window Pictures
Looking for a last minute Hallowe'en craft activity to do with your kids? Look no further! These Jack-o-Lantern pumpkin window pictures are quick and easy to make, and you'll have them up in your windows for Hallowe'en in no time! Here's
Autumn Leaf Art
Autumn is in full swing here in Edinburgh, and this past weekend we did our first round of Autumn crafting. Earlier last week, during a visit to our local park, we collected pockets full of colourful leaves which we then
Cupcake Case Daffodils
If you are looking for a last minute, easy Easter craft to do with the kids, I have just the thing for you! A bouquet of lovely Easter daffodils (in German they are known as 'Osterglocken', which translates as 'Easter
Easy-peasy Origami Tulips
This weekend, we have Mothering Sunday coming up in the UK - or Mother's Day, as everyone just calls it here now. If you're looking for a last minute gift for kids to make for their Mamas, then why not
Valentines Popsicle Flowers
Valentine's Day is coming up next week. We've never really celebrated it romantically, as a couple, but I love how the Finnish celebrate it as a day of friendship. This is the first year that Oskar has really understood properly
Easy-Peasy DIY Burns Night Napkin Holders
Burns Night is coming up this week, an annual beacon of light in the January gloom, when we take the opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s National Bard - a.k.a. an excuse to have a big, fancy, haggis slap up meal! Actually,
Folded Paper Angels
Less than a week to go until Christmas! If you are looking for an easy, last minute decoration idea or just something to keep the kids occupied and stop asking "how many sleeps now?" for even a short while, then
A Christmas Stick Tree
Last year, Oskar's school had a big craft afternoon at the beginning of Advent, to decorate the school, and on the last day before the holidays they were then able to take home anything they had made. At the end
DIY Festive Play Dough Play Mats
It's that time of year, where we like to huddle round the kitchen table on the dark winter afternoons, and get our arts and crafts on. Both my boys really love play dough. Oskar recently recreated some Ancient Egyptian canopic
Easy-Peasy DIY Cheese Box Lantern
It's only a few days to go until the festival of St Martin. Not a festival that is celebrated in Scotland, but it's very popular in Germany and luckily the German Church in Edinburgh commemorates it every year, so the
Easy DIY Bat Costume
I've been very fortunate so far with my kids' choices of Hallowe'en costumes. A couple of years ago, Oskar wanted to be a snail, and most years he's been happy to just throw on his Spider-man costume from H&M. This year,
Easy-Peasy Music Shakers
We've been really lucky with the weather in Edinburgh, since moving back three months ago. Lots of blue skies in summer and golden sunshine in Autumn. But, of course, we do also get rainy days, and in a quest to