Crafts and Costumes

Although warm Carnivals are going through the southern hemisphere, it is very cold in these parts, so we have decided to look for warm costumes so that the children do not go cold. We don't want the party to end up with a cold, so you have to protect yourself. There are different costumes suitable for this era on the market, but we propose to give you ideas that you can also prepare at home.

If you want your child to be original and this year is disguised differently than the other children in the class, making a homemade costume is a piece of cake. Today I bring you this super simple idea to make reindeer horns to disguise your son for carnival. I do not know how it will be in your children's schools, but in mine they have to go in a special way every day of the week for carnival.

It seems that two days ago we left Christmas and we are already at Carnival. This year the lunar calendar has made the most anticipated parties for children (and many older) have been very soon, at the beginning of February. This has caused the costumes to be more austere this year.

Thinking about crafts to do with my son for Valentine's Day, I thought of something very simple but that could help us use it in other crafts. So, without complicating our lives too much (my son is only 2 and a half years old), I decided to make a rubber stamp with an old eraser that I found.

I have walked around the net to make a compilation of the homemade costumes that I liked the most because they were simple as well as funny. I share some ideas to make beautiful Carnival costumes at home. Most are very easy to make with scraps, cards, clothes that you no longer use and things you can find at home.

With the cold that is doing these days in many places, maybe this weekend you have thought to stay at home with the kids. Today I propose a fun activity for this occasion, or any other: to paint a Chinese lantern with the children. To make our custom lamp we only need the Chinese lantern of fabric or paper and "embossed markers", a brightly colored pasty paint ideal for decorating those materials.

I just ran into a hilarious and entertaining idea to do with your children. It is about building bridges so that toys overcome obstacles that are at home. Playing with your children can be fun and very fruitful for both of you, but helping them build toys or supporting them to make them is even more enriching.

The paper mache is a very useful paste for an infinity of crafts. For those who do not know, papier-mâché is a technique that uses paper and glue to shape sculptures and modeling that, when dried, becomes rigid according to the shape you have given it. Today I will explain how to make homemade paper mache, using only flour, water and salt.

After the Christmas holidays (for some too long and for others too short, you understand me), the children return to school and the nursery wanting to tell everything they have lived these days, the Magi, end of the year, Santa Claus ... The little ones will hardly remember what they did yesterday afternoon, so a good idea to tell the teacher their experiences during Christmas, could be a beautiful photo album made by you.

Tonight the Kings come and although maybe it is a little late to start making cookies, maybe you want to do some crafts with them to make them relax tonight if they are nervous thinking about the Magi. You can make these fun Three Kings cookies decorated with royal glasa with the help of your children.

Our children continue on Christmas holidays and look forward to the arrival of the Magi. Today I bring you another craft to do with Christmas-themed children that you can still take advantage of to welcome the Magi home. This crown of Christmas stars to make yourself, is a craft with patterned papers with which you can take advantage of recycled papers that you have at home, if you are one of those who keep the wrapping papers, this is a great option to recycle them, especially if they are those of Santa's gifts that surely carry Christmas motifs.

These Christmas days, between food and food, trips and outings, we have had time to take advantage of some Santa Claus gift and have spent a very entertaining time with the girls making bracelets and necklaces. It is a simple activity to which children devote a lot of attention and concentration, apart from having to demonstrate their ability by inserting the pieces in the thread, but even three-year-olds can start doing it.

We continue with our balance on the most outstanding contents that we have published in the blog throughout the year in each category. It is now the turn of the manual activities that you can do with your kids, so we present you the best crafts of 2012 in Babies and more. This year we have got to work to offer you fun and stimulating ideas to share creative moments with your children.

The celebration of a new year always means a lot to everyone, a new year, with illusions, good intentions, joy, hope ... The children live it as one more party and we can take advantage to make fun new year's crafts with them. The new year is still a number, so we can use it for children to become familiar with the numbers by making beautiful crafts.

The formula of the invisible friend is very widespread lately, but it is difficult to involve children because they cannot buy a gift. The solution for the party to be complete this Christmas is an invisible friend of crafts, a game in which the kids will have fun before, during and after.

These days I have begun to prepare Christmas gifts from home and, of course, I have searched and searched the net to find the most original and beautiful wrappers I can find. Not only for what they seem, but because the fact of being wrapped by oneself, with the paper made by you, the labels, the notes ... everything is part of the magic of Christmas and thus we break with the pure consumerism that corrupts so much Christmas.

Surely days ago you have put on Christmas decoration, but they always appear funny or beautiful details with which to expand it and often acquire more grace if we make them ourselves with our children. During these days we are showing you several alternatives to decorate the house or decorate the tree and today I bring you some printable Santa Claus for the tree very easy to make and very resultons, in my view.

A couple of days ago our colleagues in Peques and more showed us a Christmas card (the one you see in the photo) that I had already seen online these days in other places and that seems to be falling in love with everyone who sees it for its simplicity and good taste In these times when you can congratulate Christmas through email, through electronic congratulations or even through WhatsApp (yes, I had to look on the mobile as it is written), it seems that the cards are relegated to oblivion.

The Christmas tree can decorate any corner of the house, including a wall, a good idea to put a Christmas touch when there is lack of space. With the help of your kids, you can make this original Christmas tree made of tissue paper to decorate the wall that is beautiful and easy to do.

Bored of the typical Christmas wreaths to decorate your house doors? The truth is that there are hundreds of options that you can make yourself at a much cheaper price than you can find on the street. In addition, this original Christmas wreath made with gift boxes, you can do it with your son a cold winter afternoon in front of the fireplace ... As simple as taking some empty cardboard boxes (a good way to recycle) and wrap them with paper Christmas gift.