Making: Easy Festive Wreath

A really easy-to-make festive wreath. Which as E.M demonstrates, is so easy to make it can even be made by a 2 year old.

You will need: 1 paper plate, some white paper, green paint, PVA glue, red tissue paper and scissors.

Draw some leaves on the white paper, paint them green and leave them to dry.

Cut the centre from a paper plate - this forms the base of your wreath shape. (Of course the adult has to do this.)

When the 'leaves' are completely dry, cut them out and glue them to the paper plate base.

Tear up the red tissue paper and scrunch into little balls for berries.

Glue the 'berries' to the wreath. Messy this bit.

And there you have it - Easy Festive Wreath! My E.M is so proud of hers...i've put it on the wall and she returns to admire it every once in a while :)

Making: Peppermint Creams

Recipe:

500g icing sugar

5 tbsp condensed milk

peppermint oil

food colouring (optional)

Mix ingredients together using a spoon (or hands!) until a dough-like consistency is formed, use as much or as little peppermint oil as you like. If you want to colour the mints like we did, seperate the dough into equal amounts depending on how many colours you're using. Knead colour evenly into the mixture. Roll out small balls of mint paste or flatten on a board dusted with icing sugar and cut with a cookie cutter into bitesized rounds. Leave to dry out.

Making: Flower Collage

I was about to throw out a big ol' cardboard box when I looked at the size of it and thought: surely there's something we can do with that!

So here it is, I call it...Flower Collage

We went on a bit of a walkabout in the back garden, gathered some interesting leaves, different flowers, grasses, nuts etc. Painted the length of the cardboard blue like the sky, and went mad with some glue! J.R enjoyed herself, and the finished product was quite nice too :)

Making: A Charlie & Lola picnic!

We love Charlie & Lola on dvd, and one of J.R's fave episodes at the moment is "The most wonderfullest picnic in the whole wide world"

So since today was looking to turn out another rainy sunday, I decided to put together a Charlie & Lola style picnic for the girls! Sausage rolls, sandwiches of ham and shredded cheese, carrots, cheese straws and a few extra goodies...

It kept them occupied for hours (no lie!) and J.R insisited on watching the picnic episode over and over just so she could see that the food she had in front of her was the same :)

It was a brilliant afternoon, and knackered them both out - with little effort!

So, as they used to say on Art Attack:

Try it yourself, a Charlie & Lola picnic.