We love crafting – and making lanterns just seems like such a staple around Halloween. So, I decided that this year we would make some stained glass inspired Jack-O-Lantern lanterns as a decoration! The craft itself is quite easy, you can leave young children to do it on their own, and doesn’t take much supplies either! You can make whatever face you want, add stickers or other decorations, and really make this your own.
Category: Projects
Lard Bird Feed Balls | Craft
[Ad- gifted product] As the sun is shining and the birds are, as always, doing their big chirps in the morning, everyone seems to be trying to spend more time in their garden! As we have been organising our garden too, we decided to make some treats for the lovely birds that have been chirping in our front yard, in hopes that they will wander back to the back yard and play outside there. These bird feed balls are easy to make, nice to hang up and feel like slime when you are creating them – so if any of your little ones like making slime, they’ll probably be interested in helping out.
Trouble finding Borax for homemade Slime
Thinking up new craft ideas for the summer, we figured creating some homemade slime would be pretty cool. The kids have never made homemade slime before and were excited to try it. There was only one issue: borax. we don’t know about you, but the only time we ever need borax is when it comes time to create slime. Borax comes in huge qualities, meaning that you’d need to make a lot of slime or store it for ages. We am not a fan of borax and do not use it for washing clothes or anything. So we started doing what any other person on the internet does; Googling for recipes that do not need borax.
It turns out, you can make slime with eye solution! After running out to the shops and picking up eye solution at Tesco’s, some glue , some bicarbonate of soda and food colouring, we figured everything was ready. When the kids came over, we dished out some bowl, divided up the glue and added everything together, allowing them to mix. After quite a bit of mixing, it became clear that instead of slime we’d created some sort of slightly sandy mixture of paint. Confused, we turned back to looking up what went wrong. The blogs we have read are actually US based, where they put – you guessed it! – borax in our eye solution. In the United Kingdom, the eye solution we purchased does not have borax in it, therefore the slime did not work.
How to make a Minecraft Ghast Pinata | DIY
[Ad- gifted product] The year is 2020, I have worked from home for my entire adult life. Working from home means I don’t tend to just nip to the shop on the way home from work, which has shaped my shopping habits. I tend to order items online as well as receive a fair bit of press packages through the post. When it comes to getting packages, I try to recycle as much as I can – putting things within the recycle bin often, but bits of packaging that I can re-purpose or add to the craft box gets put there, in hopes of having another life. Reusing packing is important to me, but so is reducing the amount of packing within these packages to begin with. There are plenty of different places to get plastic free packaging from, which is something I feel both consumers and businesses should switch too, as it is a shame to have to throw away so much harmful plastic which only had one use when it is simply not needed. That’s why I tend to make so many things out of random bits of cardboard or boxes lying around.
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World Book Day Crafting Challenge by Viking
[Ad- gifted product] Today is World Book Day, a day that helps promote the idea of reading, books, copyright, and much more. I am sure many people are celebrating by checking out their favourite book, visiting a library or dressing up as their favourite characters. I had not celebrated World Book Day before, so when Viking Direct reached out to with a challenge to do something a little different, I jumped on board. I am not the craft-y-est person in the world, but I really love doing little projects and crafts – and am trying to do more crafts this year.
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