MUMMY MONDAY | DECORATING BISCUITS

Hello lovelies, I don't know about you but rich tea biscuits for me are the most boring and bland biscuits out of the lot of them and believe me I am a biscuit connoisseur, well I've tried many anyway.   

So as I had a packet in the cupboard for a good few weeks, someone must of bought them us and I forgot about them I thought I would make some use of them and do some artsy crafty things on them then enjoy them afterwards. Dan loves rich tea biscuits so whilst he nibbled away at them he helped me and Oscar do some fun designs, his is the pretty awesome Elvis biscuit, who knew he was an artist? Aha. I attempted a rubbish Peppa Pig design and a pretty heart, so creative and Oscar did some creative blobs and chucked on a lot of sprinkles and mini marshmallows. 

This was very in expensive too as I had a lot of sprinkles in the cupboard for when we decorate cakes anyway and I just got a couple more extra bits from my local pound shop, so this cost about £2 to do! Oscar was nibbling the milk drops and licking of all the icing whilst designing his biscuit, I thought he was doing the same to mine so I took a miss on eating my biscuit afterwards haha. 

I love DIY and attempting to bake with Oscar and anything arts and crafty really, it's a good way to get together and enjoy each others company especially when the weather isn't the best there is a lot you can do in the home. The weather has actually taken a really good turn over the weekend but we couldn't enjoy it fully as poorly little man has yet another cold, we did however get some fresh air up the chase so I'll pop up that post during the week or next Monday, I hope you all had a busy weekend.

MUMMY MONDAY | WEEKEND BOX CLUB

Weekend Box Club - Theme Chinese New Year £7.50*

Hello lovelies, today I have for you a crafty Mummy Monday, me and little man had a fun day yesterday making Chinese artsy crafts things thanks to the Weekend Box, The weekend box is a fortnightly craft activity pack that gets sent straight through your letterbox for you and your little ones to get creative with, the age ranges from 3-6, Oscar is only 2 but I had lots of fun helping him as I love anything artsy and crafty. 

In this fortnightly box we got lots of activity packs to play with for the Chinese New Year theme, we were able to make -

- Fortune cookies

- Paper plate dragons

- A Chinese dragon &

- Chinese lanterns.

I just thought I would share with you one activity we did or it would be a very photo heavy post, we decided to make the Chinese dragon, with my fantastic artistic skills not, I drew a dragons head and tail then cut around it and stuck it onto the red paper and Oscar painted on some blue detailing and the lollipop sticks and had lots of fun running around the house with it shouting rarrr, because that's the noises a dragon makes, ok. 

We didn't need anything extra with this activity pack other than scissors but everyone has those in the house right? What we got in the pack -

Yellow Card

Red Paper

Lollipop sticks

Googly eyes

Blue powder (which makes paint)

A paint brush

Sticky paper

How to -

- You start by folding the yellow card in half, cutting it then drawing a dragons head and tail on the different bits of card. Cut around the card and save those pieces for later.

- Get the red paper, fold it into three parts, cut those out then fold them in 2cm chunks back on forth from each other until you get to the end of the paper then glue all the bits together. Then glue the head and tail on either side.

- Get the blue powder, put a few drops of water into the bag then mix together to make paint, paint the dragon to your liking, or let your child do this bit, Oscar had lots of fun.

-Then lastly stick on the googly eyes and lollipop sticks and have fun with your masterpiece.

I think the weekend boxes are a great idea for getting your child's creativity levels up and doing things together, for all the family. You obviously don't have to do it on a weekend if your more available to do it in the week etc, but for us as a family the weekends are the only time we get together really, so it was lovely this Sunday to get all crafty together and unleash our inner artists. I probably should of got Dan to draw the actual dragon, he is much better at drawing than I am, to think I got a B once in art... 

You always get a new theme though with the Weekend box and I look forward to what the next box will be, £7.50 is such a great price too but if you would like to try this out with your little ones I have a code for you to get one free box! 

Here is your promo code : PAIGE42 Just type that into their website HERE.

If you do get a free box I would love to see your posts on it or tweet/Instagram me and the Weekend Box club.

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Mummy Monday - Arts & Crafts.

Hello lovelies, when its raining heavily outside I am always stuck on ideas on what to do with little man, we usually get bowls of healthy snacks and watch a couple of Disney films but I thought today we would get our arts and craft on. We failed to begin with as Oscar was eating the printing product ( the orange) even after I got his snacks sorted grapes, strawberries and a bit of chocolate, kids ay! But after that incident we had lots of fun with play-dough, paints, feathers, crayons and all sorts with a lot of mess too. Sometimes it is nice to just stay in doors and play around with stuff you already have in the home, you could do some DIY, play with toys, read books, all sorts your children only want to be interacted with, I love nothing more than seeing a smile on his face.