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Surprise Chick
April 2024

Surprise Chick

These chicks are the perfect craft for the kids at Easter. Make yourself fast and easy. All you need is a surprise egg (or more) some colorful construction paper, scissors and craft glue. First cut...

Easter eggs garland with children tinker
April 2024

Easter eggs garland with children tinker

This cute easter egg garland looks very pretty as a decoration and is made quickly. Have taken white paper and painted egg sketches on it, then everything is cut out and painted with different...

Make grass head yourself
April 2024

Make grass head yourself

Who does not know them, the grass heads, which you just have to water, and already shoot grass blades as hair. Children enjoy recreating new hairstyles because the grass keeps growing as long as...

Make a piggy bank from a PET bottle
April 2024

Make a piggy bank from a PET bottle

Great upcycling project for the kids to do crafts and a cute practical decoration piece for the nursery: a piggy bank from a PET bottle. I'm always amazed what you can tinker so everything from the...

Coasters made of iron beads
April 2024

Coasters made of iron beads

Do you still know such ironing beads from the past? I made unique pieces for my living room because my old people did not like me anymore. Goes very fast and easy: Stuck pattern / picture Lay the...

Tinker mini school bag as a unique piece
April 2024

Tinker mini school bag as a unique piece

For our granddaughter, I have a school bag (height arbitrary) made of cardboard individually and designed. In a few experiments I made the first steps out of solid cheap cardboard / paper, until I...

Gypsum ladybug in Toffifee packaging
April 2024

Gypsum ladybug in Toffifee packaging

The cute ladybug can also be used as decoration for flower pots, or pasted on birthday cards, if you attach magnets to the back, you can also use them as refrigerator magnets, etc. For the project...

Make hedgehogs with children from salt dough
April 2024

Make hedgehogs with children from salt dough

Today, we have collected colorful leaves with the grandchildren to decorate the table with it, because last week we had tinkered with the matching decorative hedgehogs from salt dough. These are now...

Snowman and fir tree pendant from old buttons
April 2024

Snowman and fir tree pendant from old buttons

A quick tinkering, which is certainly fun for children: snowman and Christmas tree from old buttons! Most have some tin with old buttons and you never really need them. But children can e.g. make a...

Make simple Christmas window pictures with children
April 2024

Make simple Christmas window pictures with children

In a quick and easy way, I have tinkered with my 3 1/2 year old son a few Christmas window pictures. Of course they are not perfect, as he cut and pasted partially alone, but he was very happy to...