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The Ultimate A-Z of paper plate crafts: over 150 ideas.

Paper plates are a great tool for crafting with. If you don’t know what to do with them, then this is the post for you: an A-Z of paper plate crafts with 150 ideas for how to use paper plates in crafts for all ages.

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Puffy Paint Cactus

As we are trekking through Mexico on the Around the World in 12 Dishes adventure, I recently took a leaf out of the incredibly talented Creative Jewish Mom’s book, and taught Dimples a little ‘science’ whilst we made puffy paint.

Dimples is all about the mixing, having spent the last two terms at cooking class, [...]

Introducing Art to Kids: Hockney

A while ago DH and I got all romantic and headed to the Royal Academy- scene of our blind date- to see the David Hockney exhibition. It was wonderful, beautiful, brilliant, breathtaking. And we have talked about it a lot since then.

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Drawing competition

Garden with rabbits, flower and a rainbow. Yes the page has been folded. Apparently it needed a little something. There has been no indication who the person might be, so let's assume it's me, shall we? LBG, aged 4

LBG’s ability to draw recognisable figures has improved immeasurably over the last academic year. Actually, I have all her drawings so it’s probably not immeasurable at all, but DH and I have certainly been astounded by her efforts of late. She is such a little art bug, always drawing and writing. So when The Handpicked [...]

Introduction to Art: Magritte

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I remember travelling to London from school to look at works of Art in the big London Galleries. In particular was Rene Magritte‘s art, featuring bowler hats and famous- to me at least- for appearing in the film The Thomas Crown Affair. I wanted to use the above painting as a basis for [...]

Introduction to Art: Warhol and the Queen

Moving on from the last Introducing Art session, I thought that it would be good to do a project that would coincide with the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations this year, and in my cruising around Pinterest, this work by Hockney seemed to fascinate both of The Girls. So I spent some time one evening working out [...]

How to make a Russian Icon

LBG and I are really enjoying our trip around the World in the company of Glittering Muffins and others. This month we’re off to Russia. And when we were looking at Artists and Art for the Kid’s Art project a few days ago, we came across some Russian Icons, which LBG loved, and thought that we [...]