Baker Ross Christmas collection

Half term is coming and so is Christmas how how about an awesome box of treats to work on from Baker Ross who have now launching their Christmas collection.  How about some lovely handmade Christmas cards all come with wobbly eyes and foam shapes and letters.

Handmade gifts would also make lovely a present with these great trinket owls add your own colour and design before hiding your special trinkets inside for the wide eyed bird to look after 

 Sophie has been practicing her co ordination and dexterity with her fingers by making this super cute ladybird there is even a bumble bee and butterfly in this pom pom bug collection.

Other sticking creative fun can be found with these gem magnetic butterflies perfect to keep little fingers busy.  Or what about some flying dinosaurs gliders double fun with colouring then competitions to see who's dinosaur can fly the furthest 

 Another Christmas crafting activity we are working on are making our own Christmas sequin decorations to add lots of sparkle to the Christmas tree.

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Seaside crowns

We are getting in the holiday spirit and wishing we were by the seaside so to keep up the seaside spirit until we get there we thought we would make some seaside crowns and to help us our friends from Baker Ross sent us these inspiring seaside shapes £2.25 for 10 which the girls got stuck into right away painting them up in the wonderful Pearlised acrylic paints £9.99 for 6 colours you can see us using the paints here as we made pirate swords and Thank the teacher presents.  Even Ella got involved as she loves watching and copying her big sister and her big sister loves to guide her in what to do and Ella's little fingers were perfect for picking up small Self adhesive acrylic jewelry £2.99 for 200.   Both Girls had lots of fun and wore their crowns, Apparently Sophie was Queen seaside and Ella was Princess crabby !!

Baker Ross Summer collection

We really love to play with Baker Ross crafting goodies they are really inspiring and Sophie just cant wait to get her hands on them, and Now we have little Ella watching closely and wanting to join in.   We are today playing with the following items Ceramic flower decorations £3.99 for 5   Wooden swords at £2.99 for 4 Pearlised acrylic paint £9.99 for a pack of 6 Self adhesive acrylic jewels £2.99 for a big bag of 200 gems To create the above collection of crafted items. 

The wooden swords are really great they are a proper pirate shape and we love that they are a wooden swords which means that you can actually play with them properly and do mock sword fights, they make a great sound when bashed together in fighting and it is just a shame that Sophie Pirate costume is packed away for the move else she would have put this on, these are great fun and also great for pirate parties to make a costume or as an activity at the party. The beautiful pearlised paint sat really nicely on them holding the colour well, we think this would be a great summer holiday activity to keep the kids busy with play and Sophie took hours painting the backs and fronts and then bejeweling the swords with the self adhesive gems, which there were many great shapes and colours that sparkled well.

With the end of term coming in 3 weeks these ceramic summery flowers are just lovely and perfect for making the perfect Thank the Teacher gift and with the extra special pearlised paint to bling up and bring the flowers to life Sophie set to work on creating mini master pieces ready for the end of term.  Again she just went to town with the adhesive gems, how could you not they really are great.   Sophie really loved the pearlised paint so much she started painting herself this was just one leg, you can see how shimmery and shiny it is and pretty pastel colours.