Crafts and Costumes

There is nothing left for carnival, so most likely you already have the costumes or, at least, the idea of ​​what you will wear. If for anything, such as having children, the days fly by and the weeks seem like days, and the carnival has been thrown over you, it may be a good idea to look for a common theme for the whole family, which makes it a bit Easier to make or find a costume.

Carnival is coming, a good excuse to set up a theme party for kids full of color and fun. The slogan: come dressed up, of course, and eager to have fun. You can gather a few boys and girls and spend a most entertaining afternoon, so we propose four ideas of Carnival themed parties for children.

With Carnival just around the corner you will love to know these beautiful accessories for animal costumes of the Swedish firm Oskar & Ellen. Sometimes a good complement can become the absolute protagonist of the costume, especially if they are as beautiful as these. Simply dress the little one with a t-shirt and matching colored tights or pants and you already have an impromptu elephant, frog, donkey, rabbit or any other animal costume.

If you feel like riding a zoo at home, I encourage you to print these colorful paper animal figures to make with the children. With some simple templates that we can print at home and cut, we will model the paper to shape it and become the animal we want. Tigers, cats, snakes, rabbits, dogs, seals, turtles, parrots, crocodiles, peacocks, bears ... A zoo at the service of the ability of children when creating paper figures.

Without a doubt, decoration is an essential condiment in a celebration like Valentine's Day. Our Decoesfera partners know it very well, that's why they give us some decorative ideas that make "Love is in the air" a reality. We have suggested ten decorative ideas for Valentine's Day among which you can not miss the color red, candles and hearts.

Carnival is approaching, a date on which we want to have fun and dress up, but the situation is not to spend too much. That is why we have gone around the net to look for inspiration and we have compiled what we think are the ten best DIY costumes (do it yourself) for children.

A good idea to surprise mom or dad next Valentine's Day is to give him a card with a drawing or the child's first words. You can also use them to accompany a gift, so we offer some models of free printable Valentine's Day cards. You just have to print them in color on thick paper, fold them, decorate them and if you want, put them inside an envelope for greater expectation.

These types of celebrations are a perfect excuse to spend entertaining times with our kids doing manual work. If you want to decorate your house in a special way to celebrate family love, we give you some ideas of Valentine's crafts to do with children. Hearts are beautiful at any time of the year, so get down to work to fill your home with color.

We think there are many things to buy for the baby, but the truth is that many of them can be done by ourselves with a good dose of patience and imagination. In addition, with the great added value of having been manufactured with our own hands. If a few days ago I encouraged you to make a hanging crib for your baby, today I want to present a beautiful project that the Lof sisters teach us to do in blog Made with lof: a crib mobile made with paper boats You will need few things: a wooden structure to mount the mobile (which is purchased in the e-shop of the blog), A4 size papers (the ones you like most) printed on both sides, transparent thread and a needle to pass the boats.

If sometimes you think your ideas are exhausted to entertain children, here we bring you a resource with many simple and fun proposals. It is a guide of crafts, games and poems for children. It collects activities for children aged three to five years, as it is intended as a resource guide for Early Childhood Education.

Santa Claus has been very generous at home and has brought us some beautiful "Collages for the little ones", a craft box to create four original paintings that we plan to frame later. The collages are presented in beautiful boxes that include everything you need to create each of the compositions: four sheets of funny animals to which we "tune" with all kinds of accessories: threads, buttons, stars or cardboard flowers, dresses, borders , moving eyes ... Also comes the glue and a notebook in which it is indicated step by step with images how each collage is composed, so that it is easier for children.

Christmas holidays are approaching and you will have more time to share with the children at home. So you can spend some fun time making crafts, we propose some beautiful Christmas ornaments to do with the kids. They are made with materials that we usually have at home or that are easily obtained.

A few days ago Lola showed us some beautiful paper Christmas trees to decorate the house, and today that we are increasingly looking forward to Christmas decorations we bring you how to make a small Christmas tree of paper on video. The material we need is simple: sheets of paper, preferably green in color, to give the fir tree body, white or gold ribbon for hanging strips and Christmas balls, which can be made of pearls that we have necklaces or children's bracelets (or pieces which are used to make them at home) or also created with paper or wool of different colors.

Surely most of you already have the tree installed at home, with its lights and Christmas decorations. Surely, among all the things that hang you can locate a couple of branches in which there is mysteriously nothing. As I am sure of it, and to alleviate problem size, I bring you today some beautiful printable Christmas gifts.

A couple of days ago we talked about what will be Disney's bet for this Christmas: 'Frozen: the kingdom of ice' and how it usually happens, to promote the film and in passing, to spend time with our children, you can now Find movie printables to make crafts with them. With them we can make a snowman, color drawings of the characters in the movie, make some cutouts to achieve, for example, large snowflakes with which to decorate our house for Christmas and games like mazes and cutouts to play memory.

We are already thinking about Christmas gifts, and certainly something that gives the gift personality is the way to wrap it. We show you then five original ways to wrap gifts in an original way so that you surprise this Christmas. You can do it with the help of the kids, if you want them to participate in the preparation of the gifts.

We continue to decorate Christmas with the kids, so today we bring you a very simple craft that will give a very personal touch to your Christmas tree: they are reindeer painted by children on the balls of the tree. But they are not painted in any way. The grace of this craft is that the reindeer's face is an impression of the child's thumb.

Today I wanted to talk about a recent "discovery" that is very successful in entertaining children. These are flexible wax sticks with which children can make crafts by creating different "drawings" or sculptures. The flexible sticks are made of colored wax, and when they are heated by hand they easily glue some pieces to others.

A beautiful craft to do with the kids at this time of year are the advent calendars. It fills them with enthusiasm to discover day by day the surprises that hide behind each window. The first window opens on December 1 and so on until it reaches day 25.

Christmas airs begin to breathe, so we bring you today a beautiful craft to start decorating Christmas: paper trees. It is a very easy and entertaining project that you can do with the kids. They will love it! You can make as many trees as you want and of different sizes, either to decorate the house or as ornaments to hang on the Christmas tree.