Miss K has a favourite game she likes to play with her baby doll who goes by the name of “baby Amelia”. She loves to pretend one of my old, broken tripods is a camera, and baby Amelia is the photographer. While I stand there taking photos of various craft masterpieces we have made to put on this blog, baby Amelia stands next to me and takes photos on her old, broken
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Free Printable Activity Sheets for Disney on Ice
Recently my own two princesses were lucky enough to be invited to a special “meet and greet” with some of the amazing skaters from the Disney on Ice presents Treasure Trove show. What a fab day out it was, and the girls had an absolute blast! In this post I’m sharing a few pictures and a video of the fun they had plus we have three Disney activity sheets that you can
DIY Giant Bubble Wands + Recipe
Giant bubbles must be the coolest thing ever. In fact, I think I enjoyed this activity way better than the kids! In this post I’ll be sharing an awesome recipe that really works and two different kinds of easy DIY giant bubble wands.
Simple glitter peg butterflies
Sometimes the crafts we make are dictated by the kids, and this was one of those times. Miss R found some plain wooden pegs on the craft table that I had planned to use for something else and told me she was going to “make something with these”. She decided that the “something” was going to be a butterfly, and that it would need to be sparkly. We are enjoying
Free Printable Kids Party Planner
In just over one month my eldest daughter is turning six – where did the time go?! This year I’ve promised her a party, and she has been talking about it non stop for the past six months. If it were up to Miss R, we would have started the planning in early December. One and a half months might seem like a lot, but if six years can whizz
Scoop and pour soup mix messy play
This is an easy, creative play activity I put together for my mess-loving four year old. Whenever we do anything with paint or glue you can bet Miss K will be in there with her hands sticky and messy up to her elbows, and often her feet as well. See a perfect example here. In fact, she seems to enjoy the sensory component of our art and craft activities more than
Making Ochre Paint from Rocks
Last week we had some peaceful family R&R time away, taking advantage of the Easter break. We really wanted to go to the beach, but if you don’t get in quick in the holiday period all the nice, affordable accommodation gets snapped up by everybody else and there’s not much left to choose from. We left the booking too late, so instead of a beach holiday we decided to go
Drawing with wet chalk
Have your kids ever left their sidewalk chalk out in the rain? If they have you’ll probably be familiar with how soggy it gets, and if you’ve ever tried to draw with it while it’s wet you might have noticed it has a consistency like paint. We decided to make this mistake on purpose and use it as an art activity. It’s fun, easy, and gives the kids a different
Printable Easter Bunny Gift Box
Today we’re sharing a fun Printable Easter Bunny gift box wrapper! I don’t know about you but Easter can get a little bit excessive around here. So many chocolate eggs from here, there and everywhere (and it’s not JUST the easter bunny giving them anymore). I love to give things too, but now as a parent I can see the catch-22 of that generosity. While it feels nice to be
potato stamp Easter chicks
Make some adorable potato stamp Easter chicks! This is a fun art activity for Easter or Spring crafting and would also make sweet decorations for Easter cards or gift wrap. You might also like our paper plate chick craft Potato stamping is a fun art activity for kids of all ages. Even at my age I still find it fun (or is that just me?!). This time around we’ve turned
Sharpie Doodle Eggs
Here’s a super-simple, fun way to decorate eggs this year and you only need 2 materials! My kids loved doing this craft…
40+ Fun Easter crafts for kids
Easter is creeping up on us at an unbelievably fast rate. Seriously, it feels like Christmas has only just passed! It’s not a bad thing. We all love holidays and here at The Craft Train we love doing Easter crafts. Here is a fun round up of 41 Easter craft ideas from some pretty cool blogs that might inspire you to get crafting too…
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I’m Kate, the person behind this blog A person who never really grew up and still likes to muck around with glitter, paper, toilet rolls and paint. When I was young I’d spend a large portion of my time at my desk making things. My mother was very frugal and not artistically inclined, so our creative materials included only the very basics – pencils, textas, paper and glue. I learned to make things with
Dinosaurs and Rainbow Jelly Messy Play
I have a four year old who just LOVES messy play – and this jelly activity (or jello if you live in America) was no exception. It’s the second time we’ve done this, the first time I ran out of gelatine halfway through creating the colours so half of them were very thin (pretty much liquid) and what resulted was a spectacular but fun mess. We had sticky jelly puddles on
Friendly Face Mask and an Ebook Review
One blog I have loved to follow since I first discovered it last year is Moments A Day. Chelsea focuses on building character through everyday family life. I don’t find this easy with my kids and need all the help I can get, so when I was offered the chance to review her ebook Playing with Purpose I agreed straight away. This book has a list of all the
Kid-made flying fairy car
My kids are growing up and becoming more and more independent. Miss R is already at big school five days a week and that leaves me and Miss K at home together on the days she’s not at pre-school. It’s lovely to spend some mother-daughter time with her because as the little sister she’s always been in Miss R’s shadow, and has had very little one-on-one time with me. This
Ipad Photography – Fun Tips for Kids
My little girl is becoming a chip off the old block and taking an interest in photography. I’ve not intentionally pushed her to be interested in the same things as me but probably seeing her Mummy with a camera constantly in her hands has contributed a little. I am big, however, on encouraging my girls to follow their hearts and their natural interests in life, hoping that this will
20 Ways to Craft & Play
I love a good kids craft that can be played with afterwards, don’t you? There’s something very rewarding about making your own toys. It’s true that things made from toilet rolls, boxes, bottle caps and cans tend not to last as long as good quality store-bought toys (note that I said good quality) but I find that the store bought toys usually lose their novelty value quickly anyway and
Glitter Lid Suncatcher Mobile
This is a simple craft that is great for preschoolers and up. I love that we’ve made use of all of the plastic lids we’ve been collecting from yoghurt tubs, and my kids are always up for any craft involving glitter so this one was a hit! You will need • Plastic clear lids • Tacky craft glue (or PVA if you don’t have tacky glue) • Loose glitter •
DIY Cereal Box Board Game
Miss R adores nothing more than a good game of snakes and ladders or Monopoly Junior. I like that she likes board games because they’re good for practicing patience, counting, learning to be a good sport and taking turns all whilst having fun. In an inspired moment this week as I was about to throw an empty cereal box in the recycling (we already have quite a few hoarded