24 Days of Baking & Making This year I wanted to create an advent calendar that my Daughter (ages 2.5) would really enjoy and get her excited in the run up to Christmas. It will be the first year she can really take in what's going on and as her favourite thing in the world is crafting and baking it felt like a ...
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Creative Advent Day 9 Paper Plate Santa
You will need A paper plate Cotton wool for the beard & hat edge Glue Red paint Red Glitter Optional Black paint/pen or stickers for Santa's eyes Supply list with links to purchase from amazon Our paper plates had a shiny coating on them so rather than wait for the first layer of paint to dry ...
Creative Advent 6 December Paper Ball Reindeer
You will need light brown paper/card or craft foam, A5 will do. dark brown paper/card or craft foam scraps will do, just need enough to cut the antlers approx 5x6cm each glue eye stickers red pom pom or sticker for the nose With the light brown card/foam cut strips across the long edge of A5 or the short ...
Creative Advent 8th December Christmas krispies
Chocolate krispie Snowmen & Reindeer I had the idea to make white chocolate krispie snowmen and use raisins for the eyes & buttons and while seaching on google I came across these gorgeous reindeer too! https://mommysavers.com/christmas-treats-cocoa-krispies-reindeer/ Our adapted Recipe to make both the ...
Creative Advent Day 7 Christmas Scented Glitter Playdoh
Christmas Scented Glitter Playdoh We tried Autumn Scented Play Doh a few months back and to be honest I didn't find it was that smooth, almost a little too crumbly. So we're going to give this recipe a try from growingajeweledrose It definitely looks interesting with "Lotion" as an ingredient but it does have a ...
Creative Advent 5 December Gingerbread Snowmen
Makes 15 - 25 depending on size of cutters used 350g plain flour 100g butter 2.5 teaspoons ground ginger 0.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda 175g light brown soft sugar 4 tablespoons golden syrup 1 medium egg Method Prep:30min › Cook:15min › Ready ...
Creative Advent 4th December Salt Dough Ornaments
Salt Dough Ornaments NOTE: we made up just half the dough in this recipe and it made quite a few ornaments. I'll add a picture of all we made once they're finished. This is the link to the original creator which I found on ...
Creative Advent 2nd December Christmas Cards
Christmas Cards Just in case you were wanting to send these out in the post I thought I'd add this one to the start of our Crafty Advent. For you cards you can either use a standard sheet of card & fold it yourself or you can buy pre-folded cards with envelopes. It is of course entirely up to you which of the ...
Creative Advent 3rd December Potato Print
Potato Print Penguins & Snowmen I'll post our pictures here as soon as we've done them. We're doing this a day ahead so you've got something to work from. You will need: 2 potatoes, one a bit bigger than the other A thin carrot Black, white & orange/red paint. Shallow saucers/paper plates for the ...
Creative Advent 1st December Christmas Tree Decorations
Christmas Tree Decorations (lollypop sticks) I thought this would be a great start to the Crafty Advent as we'll be putting out tree up this weekend. What you will need: For each Reindeer 3 brown/natural lollipop sticks 1 red pompom for the nose (ours is approx 25mm) or a red sticker 2 eye sticker (goggly ...
