Separation anxiety is a normal phase for children to go through. Babies often experience it when they first realise they are separate people from their mothers. Toddlers may go through it, adding to the joys of the terrible twos. Preschoolers often experience it when they start spending extended periods of time away from their parents. […]
Christmas Decorations to Make with Children
Making Christmas decorations with the children is an annual tradition in out house. Every year we pick a style and spend an afternoon making DIY Christmas decorations that the children can give as gifts to their teachers as well as family and friends. What follows is a round up of all the decorations we have […]
Alcohol Ink Baubles
Every year, the kids and I wreck the dining room creating handmade Christmas decorations for them to give their teachers (yes, I’m that tight). We generally use some kind of process art technique to create them as I like the freedom it gives. Alcohol ink is one of my favourite process art materials and last […]
Marbled Nail Polish Baubles
Every year, the kids and I make Christmas tree ornaments to give as gifts to the children’s teachers as well as family and friends. It’s one of our family traditions and we use a different process art to make them each time. Last year we make nail Polish ornaments by marbling different colour nail varnishes […]
Melted Bead Christmas Ornaments
I recently wrote about creating Christmas tree decorations from melted crayons to give as teacher gifts. Another teacher gift we’ve done are melted bead Christmas ornaments. While the process to make these if fairly similar the results look totally different. This post contains affiliate links (identified with a *) I earn a commisson from qualifying […]