I love lip balm and use it all the time. I love to alternate flavours as well, so I always have many lip balms on the go at once. During the cold months and windy days, it is good to keep your lips hydrated as cracking can hurt a lot. Here, I have created 3 DIY lip balm recipes that are easy to make and would make great presents. The lip balm recipe I used was very simple to make, allowing our kids to complete most of it on ...
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DIY Plant Markers
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Now that the weather is warming up, we have been able to get outside more and start a small vegetable garden. To remember what seeds we planted, we created these DIY Plant Markers from paddlepop sticks that we had lying around the house.These plant markers were easy and fun to make, allowing you to remember what you planted as well as adding a bit of colour to your garden.To make these plant markers, you will need:paddle pop ...
Gumnut Olympic Ring Art
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Now here is a unique piece of art made with nature. With the Olympic Games coming up soon, we are getting into the spirit of things by learning about the Olympic Rings. This gumnut Olympic Ring Art is a fun way to create a mini Olympic Ring Art deco for your wall.For this piece of artwork your will need:5 large gumnuts white cardboard or canvas acrylic paint small bowls or plastic lidPlace a small dab of ...
Felt Leaf Sleeping Bags
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Last week we made some cute gumnut babies. This week, we have decided to make them these easy, felt leaf sleeping bags for them to rest in.To make these felt leaf sleeping bags, you will need:green felt woven jute ribbon green thread brown thread needle scissors leaf templateTo make your felt left sleeping bags:Print out the leaf template and cut out the leaves. Place the leaves on the green felt and ...
Boab Tree Mosaic Art
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Last year, we sold up our house, purchased a caravan and spent just under six months travelling around Australia. (You can read about our epic trip here.) During this time, our knowledge about Australia grew ten fold. We saw (and did) things we never thought we would do and it was absolutely amazing, but, it also brought out a lot of questions from our boys. We are going to spend this year, trying to find the answers to many of their ...
Make Your Own Dreamcatcher
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Dreamcatchers are a fun and inexpensive craft for children. They also have an interesting story behind them.Dreamcatchers originate from the Native American culture. They are shaped in a circle that represents the whole universe. The theory is that when you hang them over your bed, the good dreams slip into the middle of the dream and slide down to the feather at the bottom to the sleeping person below. The bad dreams would get ...
Fireworks Picture
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Our boys love watching fireworks; watching the brilliant colours as they explode in the sky is really awesome. To make these awesome fireworks pictures, you will need: black paper / card bright coloured paints glitter cotton ...
Snow Paint
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Snow paint, shaving cream snow paint, puffy snow paint...this stuff seems to go by so many names. Some say 1 part glue to 4 parts shaving cream and some say equal amounts of each. I used 1 part pva glue and 4 parts shaving cream, as the glue can be quite expensive, so I didn't want to use too much of it up. This worked great, and then I separated the glue/shaving cream mixture into small containers and added a few drops of food ...
Watermelon Lapbook
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One night while putting the boys to bed, during the school holidays, our oldest asked if he could do a Watermelon Lapbook as he loves watermelon very much. I agreed and spent a lot of time trying to work out how to do this.First we looked and talked about the watermelon (weight, size, colours, etc) and then we cut one open and talked about that. Next we made Watermelon Ice Blocks. For this we just blended up some watermelon and poured ...