Just Being a Mum

This was really easy, and fun for the children, they both enjoyed themselves. Then they had fun with the finished product, and it isn’t too noisy for us either.

It is suppose to be a Rain Stick, when you turn the tube upside down slowly the sound is suppose to be like rain. But when a 4 and a 2 year do it, it is a bit more like a shaker, but fortunately not a loud one.  So here goes enjoy making this with your little ones.

This is what you need to make it:

Card board tube - the longer the tube the more rain sound you are going to get, we

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Make a Stove from a Cardboard Box

The Little Man kept on at me that he wanted a stove and oven like Mummy’s so that he could do his own cooking. So I thought to my self, it can’t be that hard to make one. We just happened to finish a box of Nappy’s so we used the box to make the stove, but you could use any cardboard box that you can get your hands on. Easy peazy!

What you will need

- Cardboard Box
- Roll of paper (I can get rolls at Ikea) or you could use sheets but it may take a bit longer to stick it on.
- Glue Stick
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Grass Head - watch his hair grow

We made these before Christmas, the Little Man had a great time helping me with it, and even more fun watering and watching his hair grow. An easy and fun craft project that everyone will get a laugh out of.

What you will need

- Old Stocking
- 3x elastic bands - small ones
- Cotton balls
- Grass seed - handful
- Paper cup
- Wobbly eyes
- Pipe cleaners
- Glue

What you need to do to put it all together

- Cut the stocking at about the thigh, you can cut more off later when you are finished if you need to.

- Place a handful of the grass seed in

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Very Easy Paper Flowers

These are great little flowers to stick on the wall, you can put a bunch together and they look great.
Plus they are extremely easy, you can make one in no time, so a bunch of them wouldn’t take you long at all.

What you will need:

- Paper plates - I used white ones, but if you can get coloured ones that would look great too.
- Large Cake cups - coloured ones
- Small Cake cups - coloured ones
- Paddle pop stick (just any kind of wooden stick that you can find)
- Sticky tape or Glue
- Scissors

Here is what you will need to do to put them together:

- Cut the

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Easy to make Photo Holder - Elephant

This was a fun one to make, and it looks great on the wall when you are finished. I am going to try it in different animal shapes and put them on the wall in the Little Miss’ Bedroom, and clip some great pictures to them.

It would make a wall lots of fun. It works really well with the elephant though, as the peg becomes the trunk.

What you will need:

- Paper Coloured
- Cardboard - I just used the back of the cereal packet
- Small piece of white paper
- Glue
- Scissors
- Pen
- Pencil
- Peg - plastic or wooden

Here is what you will need

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Computer Made From an Egg Carton

The little Man is always on at me to use my computer, or that he wants a computer of his own. But as he is only 3 years old, I really don’t think that he needs one just yet.

So what better thing to do, but to make our own out of an egg carton.

Here is what you will need:
- Egg Carton
- Scissors
- Sticky Tape
- Paper - Whatever colour you like.
- Coloured sticky dots
- Permanent marker

Here is what you need to do to put it all together:

- Turn Carton inside out and tape it together on the sides, so that it looks a bit like a

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Easy to Make Flip Flops - Craft Project

I saw these being made the other day, I can’t for the life of me remember where, but I do get a lot of my ideas from Play School, so it wouldn’t surprise me if that is where I got the idea from.

Well, the little man wanted to make a pair this afternoon, so we did of course, even if it was in the middle of cooking dinner.

Here is what you need:

2 or 4 Pipe Cleaners (depends how big the foot that you are making it for is.)
Cardboard
Pen and Crayon

Here is what you need to do to put it all together.

- First thing

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A really easy to make Bird

What you will need:

- Paper plate

- Paint or crayons

- 2 Feathers

- 2 Paper clips

- Paper or Felt

What to do to put it all together:

- Paint or colour in the middle of the paper plate, fold the plate in half with painting showing.

- Draw an eye on each side

- Cut a triangle out of the paper or felt for the beak, sticky tape the beak to the inside of the plate

- Paper clip the feather so it is a tail, the other in the middle of the plate, being the top of the birds head.

Voila, finished one bird that rocks

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