Day 693: Tree MDF Tag.

The lovely people at Stixs2 sent me some amazing goodies a little while ago to have a play with and in with those goodies were some of their new large MDF Wooden Tags. So without saying the dreaded C word I decided to make my first tag of the year. I found theses tags to …

Day 692: Aquaween

October is nearly here and that means Halloween will be here soon. Halloween is normally a time full of little ones in costumes going from door to door, knocking, then saying Trick or Treat. Admittedly it is mainly an American thing but it has been picking up in England over the last few years. My …

Day 688: Lego Monkie kid’s Delivery bike.

Today I thought we would build one of the recent promotional Lego store poly bags the Lego Monkie Kid's delivery bike set that was given away with purchases last week of £35 or over instore or online. This set is a small set but it's a good little build if you want something to keep …

Day 686: Brusho Clown.

I've started practicing some of my drawing skills today for over the next couple of weeks and with that comes experimenting and reminding myself how some of my materials work. I've never really used my brusho powders to make my own inks or paints so today I decided to give it a go and tried …

Day 685: Making Aquabead Lolly pops.

October is around the corner and that means Halloween is on the way. So I decided to start trying some Halloween crafts including making some Aquabead Lolly pops and to research some other aquabead sweet designs. October to me not only means Halloween with it's ghosts, ghouls, sweets and trick or treating. To me it …

Day 684: Review of the Zebra doodlerz Glitter Gel pens.

I was in B&M yesterday and saw these. I saw the word doodlerz and got curious. So I grabbed a pack and thought I would see what they were like and have a play with them. It wasn't till I got home that I realized these were a glitter gel pen. The shimmery glitter caught …

Exploring the Hard Rock cafe.

During the Eat Out To Help Out scheme I went to the Hard Rock cafe in Piccadilly Circus as part of an afternoon trip to London. I had tried to reserve a table the night before and thought the reservation had gone through only to find out when I arrived it hadn't; thankfully I only …

Day 681: Aqua bead Frozen 2 Play set Review.

Today we are going into the unknown with the Aquabeads Frozen play set. As you can imagine this set is full of Frozen theme creations and Frozen colour beads. A few weeks ago Aquabeads got in touch and asked if I would be happy to try and review a couple of sets; I said yes! …

Day 680: Making Cake from Aquabeads.

Today's I experimented with making a 3 Dimensional Swiss roll style cake out of Aquabeads. I've been dabbling with Aquabeads since just before lock down and today I took the plunge and decided to try making some 3D models. I found this to be challenging at first but an interesting experiment and tester considering I'd …

How to fill an activity tray?

Today I thought I would share how to fill an activity box to help with positive mental health. With this I've also answered some key questions when using activity or task boxes