Fathers Day Part One :)

So here in Australia Father's Day is just around the corner (well, just under 4 weeks away) and my partner won't be with us as he is traveling back up north to spend the week with his mother for her birthday. So we have gotten Father's Day crafts underway so that we can post them up to daddy in time for the special day :) We have started with this mini hand made scrapbook. I have put up a picture of each page to show you an example with our book if you wanted ideas to make your own. :)

Front Cover :)

 Page 1 :)

 Page 2 :)

 Page 3 :)

 Page 4 :)

 Page 5 :)

 Page 6 :)

Back Cover :)

Keep an eye out for the rest of our fathers day crafts in the posts over the next few days & if you liked this post feel free to find us on Facebook :)

Balloon Balls & String Painting :)

So our efforts today went to making a rice filled balloon ball :) The catch was - we had no funnels to do it! We managed to get it done though, after A LOT of spilled rice :L But here is the experience broken down :)

 Ready to go :)

 Rice & balloons ready to be transformed :)

 Look mummy! I'm doing it! :)

 Look at what I made!

The finished product :)

Then we did some string painting which yes, got very messy. it went from string painting to hand prints to finger painting :)

 Yes, I always get in on the fun! :)

 Is this right mummy? :)

This is our finished artworks :) It really was fun & I really enjoyed the kids faces when they seen me pull the string from the paint pot - they were so intrigued!

From Nature Day To Nature Week

So this week has been a little hectic for us all as a family but we pulled through. The weeks been packed with exploring nature & me looking into all avenues of home-schooling that I could to find research to further base my choice on. So during our fast paced week this is what we got up to :)

 Grape & orange butterflies :)

 Jaylen had fun exploring the rosemary we planted a few short months ago. The smell it left on his hands made him rather interested & excited, he kept going back to rub his hands over the rosemary then smell his hands - it was wonderful! :)

 Then he found this leaf & was amazed at how big it was & just demanded that I looked & took a photo :)

 Then he found a rose :) He picked it & handed it to me then said "you're welcome mummy." My little boy is becoming a gentleman! :)

Then the kidlets & I made colourful cloud dough :)

We are a busy little family, between my business, the kidlets growing every day & maintaining a household, times do tend to get too busy to remember to blog everyday but feel free to follow our Facebook page ---> Creative Kidlets 101 <--- as it is updated far more often than my blog sadly!

Nature Day :)

Last night we found a new reserve just a short 10 minute walk away so today we spent our day out at the reserve feeding the ducks & playing on the playgrounds. However this post will link up everything within the past few days that I have missed out on :)

So the other day we lost our power & in a house full of silence makes me blank for ideas, so I just raided the craft cupboard & had a 'bit of everything craft' morning until the electrician came to fix it all up - it looked a little something like this -

We coloured some dinosaur fact sheets, we did some drawings on paper bags & then did some rice pictures too. Oh and lets not forget our duck bills (pictured below) we made out of some foam inserts I had left from some shoes I had bought a while ago :)

We made an octopus snack - with 7 legs because we couldn't fit the 8th leg on the plate :L

 I made a '100+ activities - you're not bored' jar by printing a list of 115 things to do in any weather, in any place, at any time & the cutting and pasting each thing to a paddle pop stick :)

And here is just some photo's of our trip to the new found reserve today :)

 And last but not least we did some Olympic inspired printings & I taught the kids a few pictures they could make with fingerprints :)

 I hope you find something worth looking at and/or trying :)

We're Back! :)

Alright so we have been a little MIA lately while I have been dealing with family issues & sorting out the house & such. But now we are hopefully back to keep you all updated :)

Today we had a lunch fit for a fairy (in size that is) which I made out of a few wafer bites, mini toast, cheese & a hundreds & thousands cookie :)

Then we made some paper bag fishies...

Then we drew a big picture with a twist - we taped our markers to toy cars :) The kidlets loved it! :)

Delayed But Worth It!

 So this week has been a little busy, been getting the house re-organized & been having quite a lot of family time together. But here is a quick summary of our week. :)

The kidlets played 'pirates & princesses' in the backyard :) They had a blast & even made their own little story out of it which was pretty cute.

We had a scavenger hunt during one of our trips to the park :) We used out cardboard roll telescopes to find the things on our 'treasures' list :)

We did bubble wrap paintings by cutting shapes out of bubble wrap, dipping them in paint & pressing them onto paper like stamps :)

We made 'me! me! me!' pictures by tracing around each other on large sheets of butcher paper then decorating our silhouettes with all of our favourite things :)

I made them kite sandwiches with banana snowflakes since it is still winter here :)

And last but not least I made the kidlets scuba diver sandwiches :) 

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, life has been getting fairly busy but definitely not boring! :)

Busy Little Day :)

 So this morning this little mummah woke up with this most shocking headache making creativity a little stunted for the day but here is a little summary of our day anyway :)

 We had helmet head sandwiches for lunch :)

 And snow plow bikkies for morning tea :)

 We made kites out of plastic bags, some yarn & some streamers :) This kept the kidlets busy for HOURS!

And we made snake bubbles using a rubber band which held a face washer over the end of a bottle which I had cut off. We dipped the face washer end into some bubble mix I had made - 2 parts detergent to 1 part water - and then blew through the cap end of the bottle making a snake-like stream of bubbles :)