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A Story of 2015 – Reflection for Kids
2015 is drawing to a close. Below is a writing prompt for kids to help them reflect on the year. For older children, this could also become a writing plan for a short story about the year – and what a...
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Pan for Gold
Kids love mystery and adventure! And we had plenty of that when we drove around the South Island of New Zealand last September in a camper van. One of the places we stopped at was Shanty Town. There we...
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The Music (Backyard) Tree
Listen to how gorgeous this sound is! Making a music tree is a lovely project for the backyard. It’s simple, cheap and fun. Plus the sound is glorious! An idea is to couple this family activity with...
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DIY Wash-Out Barbie Hair Dye
If you have a child who engages with Barbie, they may enjoy to play “hairdressers” and create hair colour designs. This is super easy to do at home with washable texters. It only works on light...
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Gravity Defying Cake (with Skittles & Maltesers)
I have recently been watching MyCupcakeAddiction on YouTube. I love the ideas and creativity shown on this channel. I also love baking, and for my 12th birthday, I wanted something that was fun and...
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Pipe Cleaner Butterfly Ring
Pipe cleaners are a great craft material for little kids to mould and bend into shape. My girls love these pipe cleaner butterfly rings, and best of all they are very quick to make. These butterfly...
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DIY Barbie Luggage
In my online travels, I found this idea from Kids Kubby. Click here for Lily’s full tutorial on how to convert a simple plastic soap container into luggage for Barbie, and a few different options of...
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2 Easy Water Experiments for Kids
School’s back and sometimes the little ones left at home miss their older siblings. Here are a few quick and super fun experiments that you can do together to keep them occupied. The best part is, they...
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Coffee Pod Lion
Instead of throwing coffee pods away, why not recycle them for the kids to make some fun creatures? Today I’m going to show you how we made a coffee pod lion using a few simple craft materials that we...
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Coffee Pod Penguin
If you have a collection of coffee pods that you’ve been looking to upcycle, why not make some coffee pod creatures! The little cups make them easy for little hands to handle and the coffee pods look...
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Easter Cupcake Case Baskets
Whenever I go into a homewares store (which is rare now I have kids) I often have a browse through the sales bucket and I always find pretty cupcake cases. I usually buy a pack or two to put in the...
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Backyard River Play
Late one hot and sunny afternoon, the kids and I made a river in the backyard to float milk bottle lid boats. It was easy to set up and we had all the items needed already in the house. Materials...
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Science Experiments For Kids
This is the second instalment to the easy water experiment post I wrote last month. We can’t get enough science in our house at the moment and the kids are constantly dressing up and playing the mad...
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Easter Craft Idea: 3 Ways to Decorate Boiled Eggs
Easter is upon us and instead of focusing our attention on the chocolate egg variety, how about we look at the boiled egg variety too. This is a fun activity that my kids loved (and I got a kick out of...
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Tiny Town Buddies – Sew Kits
I kept these adorable Tiny Town Buddies sew kits in the cupboard, ready to get out for our Easter long weekend camping trip. There’s a Fox, Bunny and Cat. Each craft kit includes everything needed to...
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The Cookie Monster down under
On his recent visit to Australia, the insatiably hungry Cookie Monster sampled some local cookies, including the iconic Tim Tam and ANZAC biscuits. But as he told Be a Fun Mum Writer, Cath, whichever...
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Mini Habitats
This activity and post is entirely kid-made. I had nothing to do with any of it. Photographs and this post was done by my 12-year-old. The set up was created by my 8, 10 and 12 year old. Such an easy...
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Create your own Lego animations
It can be difficult to find enough activities to keep kids busy over the school holidays, especially when it’s raining and you’re stuck indoors. Although my two younger children would happily watch...
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You Won’t Believe This Play Kitchen is Made Out of Boxes!
When I first saw the pictures of this play kitchen I couldn’t believe it had been made out of cardboard boxes! When I saw the before image prior to the kitchen being painted and styled, I was impressed...
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Cardboard Roll Flowers
Since I’ve had kids, I have been collecting empty toilet rolls as if my life depended on them. My life didn’t depend on them but I assumed my sanity would because one day they would be used for craft....
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