Easy Craft Ideas

Easy Craft Ideas that you can do by yourself or with kids. No sewing skills required!

Christmas Gift Tags – Gorgeous Free Printable

July 29, 2011

Today’s post is from one of my very favourite bloggers, Kate from Picklebums. Kate is a very clever lady and makes also sorts of fabulous things you can download and print. In today’s post which is the last in the Christmas Planning in July series, Kate is sharing a set of gorgeous Christmas Gift Tags [...]

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Recipe Card Template and Recipe Booklet

July 22, 2011

I have always wanted to have a go at making recipe cards and turning them into a gift somehow. When I was doing research for the Christmas in July 2011 series, I came across a Recipe Booklet How-To from Martha Stewart which seemed easy enough for even me to do! To keep with my eco-friendly [...]

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Cabochon Rings – How To Make Your Own + Give Away!

July 15, 2011

This give away has now closed, thank you to all those who entered. This is the second hand made gift for Christmas 2011. We are making vintage paper doll sets and to see the rest of my planning for Christmas 2011 go to: Christmas in July 2011. These cabochon rings are made from a kit [...]

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The Little Humbugs – Vintage Inspired Children’s Art Give Away

February 9, 2011

This give away has now closed. Thank you to everyone for entering and congratulations to Honor! An email is on its way to you with details of the prize. Louise is the WAHM, based in Melbourne and the artist behind The Little Humbugs. Louise describes it as Children’s art, that celebrates the innocence of childhood!!! [...]

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Food Co-op Melbourne and A Handmade Christmas Gift Of Tea!

November 25, 2010

This post is part of my Christmas Preparation plan. This week’s task was making the last of our handmade Christmas gifts. This year we have also made some retro coasters, chalkboard notice boards and a simple bunny softie. ***** The three younger kids and I had a great time earlier this week visiting the Friends [...]

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Cinnamon Stick Christmas Decorations

November 18, 2010

Five and a half weeks to go until Christmas. This post is part of my Christmas Preparation plan. I haven’t been working on them in exact order this year. Having a plan for Christmas, means that I can choose a task for the week that better suits my schedule. I know that if I keep [...]

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How To Make Christmas Tags

October 30, 2010

It has been a pretty massive 10 days in the Planning With Kids household. I am certainly not complaining as on the whole it has been super exciting as well. It has just meant that my regular posting schedule sort of went out the window! But I am back on track now and normalcy should [...]

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Make Your Own Coasters

October 6, 2010

My girlfriend Cath found this idea to make our own coasters in the adorable Frankie magazine. The creative source was none other than the lovely Pip from Meet Me At Mikes. (Do you know that Pip has a new book coming out? You can pre-order Sew La Tea Do now from Readings and they will [...]

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Book Review: Zombie Felties

October 2, 2010

One of the things I love about school holidays, is that it gives me more time to spend doing activities with the kids. The first week of the school hols we were out and about most days, but this week we have spent a lot of time at home and have had lots of fun. [...]

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Chalkboard Paint Ideas

September 3, 2010

This is the second handmade Christmas Gift I have made with the kids for Christmas 2010. The first one was a simple softie. If you are looking for more inspiration check out my posts with other ideas on Handmade Christmas Gifts. Earlier this year for the school fair craft stall, I made some simple chalkboards [...]

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Book Review: Simple Softies For The Whole Family (and our first handmade Christmas Gift for 2010!)

July 9, 2010

This week we finally had time to make something from the very gorgeous book Simple Softies For The Whole Family. This is the third book in the series, first was Softies and then there was More Softies. My aim for this project was to let my daughter make the softie herself from start to finish, [...]

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Super Easy Button Snap Clips

April 21, 2010

How gorgeous are these self cover button snap clips? And the great thing is not only are they gorgeous but incredibly easy to make! Now if you have been reading this blog for even a small while, you will now that I am very fond of self cover buttons. So I felt particularly lucky when [...]