by Liska Myers | Jan 16, 2020 | Spring, Women's History
March is a Women’s History Month. Explore the topic of famous women in history for kids together with us! Do you know who wrote the first novel? Murasaki Shikibu, a lady-in-waiting who lived in Japan between the 10th and 11th centuries, is considered to be the...
by Yarda | May 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Rainbows make children happy, so a lot of boys and girls don’t mind an addition of a rainbow to their everyday life… and rainbows can take very different forms. Here we have snacks, toys and room decor – all rainbow-themed! I have a few certain...
by Yarda | May 15, 2017 | Other crafts
Craft sticks are very versatile and fun to work with! Make art, build toys and create STEM constructions with your children, using craft sticks. We like working with wood! When we started this blog, we were making wooden toys for our son, but it has been several...
by Liska Myers | Jan 23, 2017 | Winter
Winter is a good time for crafting and for keeping warm. Put the two together, and here is the selection of our favourite winter crafts. We do a lot of crafting in the winter. The weather isn’t great to spend a lot of time outside, and it’s getting dark...
by Liska Myers | Oct 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
It seems that time moves slower for children than for adults. I feel like I haven’t gotten enough of summer, as if it had zoomed past with a terrible speed, but my son is looking forward to snow and winter. He’s positively celebrating it! And when there...
by Liska Myers | Oct 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
As my children grow, it is becoming more interesting to work on craft projects with them. I tried collaborating with my son when he was one year old, and that was fun, but now that he is four… Why, it’s really one of my favourite things to do. Say I want...
by Liska Myers | Feb 13, 2016 | Clay Crafts
In this post, you’ll find enough inspiring clay projects for kids to last at least a year! Sculpting with plasticine was a staple of my childhood. Ironic since my kids have hardly touched it. Instead those lucky guys have been experimenting with beeswax...
by Liska Myers | Mar 2, 2015 | DIY Toys, Nature crafts, Other Toys, Spring
Do your kids like collecting rocks, branches and moss? These awesome nature finds can be turned into fun DIY toys! After months of bleak winter, I have to constantly remind myself that under the feet of snow grass is getting ready to grow again. The last month, it was...
by Liska Myers | Jan 2, 2015 | DIY Toys, Mostly Personal
These are a few things that happened to me for the first time in 2014: I was called “mama” by my son, tried fried ice-cream, grew ground cherries in my garden, learnt to use an angle grinder, broke my laptop’s screen by simply pushing my thumb into...
by Liska Myers | Dec 3, 2014 | DIY Toys, Other Toys
When children are bored, there is nothing like contents of a recycling bin to quickly stir up some fun easy projects! …Or some elaborate ones. It depends on how carried away you get. Just today, my husband and son spent their evening, pretending that a cardboard...
by Liska Myers | Sep 19, 2014 | Autumn, DIY Toys, Halloween
We started making handmade toys for our son before he was even born. We wanted to fill his toy box with special friends that Mommy and Daddy sewed and carved. Nine months were long enough to do the job! Soon strange little creatures with button eyes and wooden rattles...
by Liska Myers | Sep 17, 2014 | Acrylic art projects, Autumn, Drawing & doodling, Watercolour art projects
We like to celebrate the change of seasons. Autumn is so bright, colourful and inspiring when it comes to making art. I collected a few art projects and crafts that we would like to try this fall. There are thirty one of them, which means that if we do one every day,...
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