Free Fun Friday – Mother’s Day Milk Lid Magnet

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Mother’s Day is just around the corner… just a couple of days away!  Maybe you need a last minute gift to go with a lovingly prepared breakfast, or with a cup of coffee and morning tea, just to let your special mum or grandma know that you love her!

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Or maybe you want something to decorate a plain wrapped present, or you need to transform a blank card into a fancy one?

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Our cheery Mother’s Day Milk Lid Magnets are so versatile you can do all these things and more!  No special supplies are needed except for a magnet, unless you want to add a little sparkle with some glitter.  If you don’t have a magnet, a little reusable sticky putty on the back will do the trick!

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It only takes five minutes to make one, using one of the 19 free printable flowers we have included, as well as a milk or juice bottle lid. Of course, you can make all 19 if you like, to make a colourful collage on the fridge!

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Click on the button below to get started with our easy and free tutorial and diagrams.

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Whatever the case, you can sneak one on the fridge some time during Mother’s Day, so your mum or grandma gets a little surprise next time she walks past!

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Sometimes there is no need to give an expensive present, as it really is the thought that counts!

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If you make something from our pattern and instructions, we would love it if you popped a photo into our gallery for all to see!

Easy Insect Antennae Headband

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To coincide with the launch of the Bugs and Beetles issue of the Imagine. Make. Believe ezine we wanted to give you a free project!  It is our Easy Insect Antennae Headband! The project nearly ended up in our magazine, but we decided we would like to share it with you all instead, and give you a little taste of our children’s activity magazine at the same time!

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The Easy Insect Antennae Headbands are so quick and easy you will be playing dress ups or going to a fancy dress party in no time at all!  There are no special supplies needed, and it should only take about 10 minutes to make one, plus a little drying time.  The instructions and diagrams are also suitable for children to follow.  We have included instructions for tall and straight grasshopper style antennae, and also floppy antennae that are suitable for dressing up as a bee, ladybug or other insect. Click on the button below for the free instructions!

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If you would like a play to act out, more simple insect dress up or costume ideas, or bug and beetle crafts, activities, games, recipes and food ideas, or run a whole insect themed party, get the Imagine. Make. Believe – Bugs and Beetles issue today!

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Have fun pretending to be an insect!

Free Fun Friday – Weekly Schedule

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Weekly Schedule, free, printable, children, activities, days, visual cue, chartDo you have a weekly schedule for yourself or your children?  If so, is it printed, digital or locked away in your brain?

During the last couple of weeks, a friend and I (Janelle) have been chatting about her young child who is now attending kindy at school a few days per week and how the child has been reluctant to get the uniform on.  We think that it would help if the child had a visual cue to know which days kindy are on, as well as other activities that happen during the week, so the child can see at a glance what day it is, and be prepared mentally by knowing what is coming the next day.

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Of course, I said I would be happy to make up a chart for her, to help keep track of the days, and we couldn’t resist sharing it with you too!  We have designed the Weekly Schedule so that it can be printed and laminated and put on your fridge, or on the door or wall.  All you need to do is click on the Weekly Schedule button below, and:

  • Print it on two separate sheets of paper (it will fit perfectly on an A4 size sheet as is, so there is no need to have it ‘reduced to fit’).
  • If there is more than two children in the family, you will need to print two copies of each sheet.
  • Before you laminate them, neatly write each child’s name on the dotted line next to a row on the first page.
  • Laminate the pages separately.
  • Once laminated, cut along the light grey lines on the second page.
  • Stick the first page up somewhere where your child can see it.
  • Choose the pictures from the second page that you need for your chart and stick some sticky putty on the back of them and then place them on the appropriate days on the chart.
  • The red arrow on the second page can be used as a pointer to keep track of which day it is.
  • When the pictures are not in use you can store them next to the chart.

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We hope our Weekly Schedule helps you and your children keep track of the activities in the week, and make life that little bit easier for you.  Let us know how it goes!

We also have a Back to School Uniform and Activity Chart as a free printable too, which we use everyday to keep track of school activities and which uniform to wear on what day!

Free Fun Friday – Sweet Heart Valentine

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The Feast of Saint Valentine, or Valentine’s Day as it is more commonly called, is only 14 days away!  It always comes around so quickly after school goes back, after our big summer holidays here in Australia.

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Of course, we wanted to give you a treat to share with your valentine, and we decided that a ‘feast’ would be on the menu this time!  Our edible Sweet Heart Valentine is perfect for sharing with your valentine or the whole family, and is easy to make with only four ingredients.

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It is nut free, and can be made gluten free, dairy free (use dairy free chocolate), and egg free! Just check all the ingredients to make sure.  Click on the button below for the recipe and instructions, complete with diagrams, that children can follow.

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These can be made for other occasions too, including birthday parties, or just for fun. Elissa and Janelle made these quick and easy, gluten free, class treats for school, so that Elissa could celebrate her birthday with her classmates.

There are more, easy, celebration recipes in our Imagine. Make. Believe e-zine, with a whole lot of themed party ideas too.  Get your issue today!

We hope you have a happy Valentine’s Day, and that you make the day special for someone else too!

Back to School Bag Tags

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Back to School Bag Tags, bag tag, school, milk bottle lid, juice bottle lid, recycle, upcycle, children, free, tutorial, kids, back to school, printableSchool holidays are almost over, and the children will be back to school next week!  The holiday breaks always go so fast, even when they last two months!

Do your routines go by the wayside during the school holidays?  Ours do!  We love the slower paced mornings, and I don’t know that any of us are keen to say goodbye to them! Whether we like it or not, routine will start up again next week!  The bonus this week is that our Free Fun Friday post is up a day early, to help you get organised!

So, do you have the kid’s school books all covered?  We still have a bundle to do, so if you are like us, and not quite finished yet (or not even started!), then head over to our book cover posts!  There you will find instructions for How to Cover Books for children to follow so they can cover their own books (and they can do that at age 7!) as well as a page of ideas for School Book Covers.

The next job to do after covering school books, is naming everything, so things don’t get lost, including the school bags.  Usually these don’t go missing, however, sometimes other children have the same bag, so we like to have some visible difference, so they don’t get mixed up.

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We came up with a quick and easy school bag tag that you can make from a juice or milk bottle lid, and because these lids are usually bright and colourful, your school bag should be easily identifiable.

Thanks to JJ, we have bright and colourful designs ready to print, cut out and pop in your milk bottle lid, but if you would rather have your own design, we have a blank circle template that you can use.  Click on the button below to get the instructions and templates.

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If you find the circles are a little too big for your lid, carefully cut the circle a little smaller all the way around the edge.

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We love the fact that our bag tags are almost free to make, and that there is another milk bottle lid or two getting upcycled!

Have some crafty fun getting ready to get back to school!

New Year’s Eve Party Poppers – Rockets

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Free Fun Friday - New Year's Eve Party Popper Rockets, party poppers, new year, craft, kids, make, paper craft, recycle, cheap, confetti, paper shred, push popper, rocket, free, pattern, tutorial Christmas has passed, and 2014 is just around the corner!  How do you celebrate the coming of a new year?  Do you visit your local New Year’s firework display?  Have a barbecue with friends? Stay up until midnight to watch the specially broadcasted city fireworks and New Year’s Eve program on TV? Or maybe you have a party with friends or family?

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Whatever the case, maybe you are looking for some crafty New Year’s Eve party poppers to make?  These remind us of the poppers that go off with a bang, and sprout streamers everywhere. Our design is a quiet version, shaped as a firecracker rocket, and can be made to suit any colour scheme.  They are easy for children to make, are made from cheap and recycled materials, and can be refilled and reused.  You can also put wrapped lollies or candy in them.

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Click on the button below to view the New Year’s Eve Party Poppers instructions.

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If you make rockets from our New Year’s Eve Party Poppers pattern, we would love to see photos of them.  Contact us! Don’t forget we have a great value quarterly ezine for kids that will keep them busy in the holidays.  Subscribe today!

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Milk Bottle Lid Christmas Decorations

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Christmas is so close, and hopefully you are all organised for the day!?  We are literally in the middle of packing boxes at the moment and are moving house over the weekend, so there is no Christmas tree up, no Christmas decorations hanging, no presents wrapped, and no Christmas food cooked.  That hasn’t stopped us from thinking about Christmas though.

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Maybe, like us, you need some last minute Christmas decorations to hang on the tree that you haven’t put up yet?  Get the kids crafting over the weekend and you can have a tree full of decorations in no time!  Annie and Elissa have been busy behind the scenes making some pretty, sparkly, Christmas decorations… from milk bottle lids!

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That’s right!  Milk bottle lid Christmas decorations!

While these ones won’t be hanging on our tree this year, Annie has made a huge bundle of them, about 60 in fact, as she plans to give lots of them away as small gifts to family and friends.  She loves giving gifts and she loves being creative!

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Do you want to make some too?  If so, we have free instructions and diagrams for the children to follow (or yourself), and all you have to do is click the button below to open the pdf file.

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Even though we have rated these as 4/5 on our difficulty rating system, Annie, at aged 8 made almost all of them by herself.   Younger children will need a little more help with poking holes and threading the cord through the holes.

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You may notice that some of the decorations don’t have the cord attached. We will attach cord to them all, but even though we haven’t done so on all of them, we do recommend that you attach the cord before gluing the glitter on, so that you don’t rub the glitter off while you are poking holes and threading the cord through the lid.

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We hope you have a great time being creative with these milk bottle lid Christmas decorations, and we would love to see some photos of yours too!  Contact us, or keep an eye out for our Milk Bottle Lid Christmas Decoration Gallery.

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Free Fun Friday – Nativity Scene Colouring Picture

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Christmas is coming… ever so quickly!

There is always so much to do leading up to Christmas, and so much to think about, but hopefully you haven’t been getting stressed with Christmas shopping, menu planning, or packing bags for a trip! In the next week, we won’t be doing any of that, but we will be busy packing boxes to move house!  Not an ideal time of year to move, but sometimes that’s they way things happen!

Have your children finished school for the year and are on holidays?  If so, you are probably keen to keep them busy while you are busy preparing for Christmas, or writing Christmas cards if you haven’t done so already!  We do have a great solution for you!  Subscribe to our Imagine. Make. Believe activity magazine… today!  It will keep the kids out of mischief for many hours, and the projects are easy enough for children to do themselves, although younger children will need some help.  There is even a play and finger puppets to keep them entertained!  Games, puzzles, recipes, craft, sewing and lots more… 70 pages of fun!  Once you subscribe we will send you a link, and all you have to do is download your family’s copy!  At $4 an issue*, it is great value, and as cheap as cup of coffee!

Our cute Christmas Nativity Scene Colouring Picture will also help the kids sit quietly for 15 minutes as they colour in.  Just click on the Nativity Scene Colouring Picture button below, print the file, and grab 15 minutes of peace in the craziness of Christmas!

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If you are still having trouble entertaining the children, have a browse through all of our Free Stuff, and don’t forget to come back soon as we are always adding more!

*If purchased as a yearly subscription. AU$16 for a full year subscription of four issues, or you can purchase them separately for $5 per issue.

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