Swinging clip folk and clocks

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Charlotte has been busy creating fun swinging clip folk and clocks this week. My favourite is the robot she made for me, which I’ve pinned in the kitchen. In my dreams the robot comes to life and performs the tasks Charlotte has set for it to do: ‘Do all the housework’, ‘Make breakfast’, ‘Tidy up’ (think I was mid rant about having to pick up after everyone when she wrote this one), ‘Make coffee’.

swingingclipart

Sophie has been joining in and developing her cutting with scissors skills. The work in progress looks like this (and I’m waiting for that robot to help with the tidying up!):

work in progress

Charlotte asked me to video her making a clock, so other people would know how to do it, so here she is:

The other fun craft thing we’ve been getting into is thumb print art, after Charlotte found a little notebook by Klutz called, ‘Draw Thumb Animals’.

Here’s some of her fun creations…

thumb print art

And a FABULOUS website I’ve recently come across has the most wonderful selection of craft ideas for children – it is ‘The Crafty Crow‘ and I’ve added a link button on my side-bar as I shall be visiting often! Through ‘The Crafty Crow’ I came across more dot art ideas on ‘Let’s Explore’.

LOVING the school hols and having my gals home being all arty and creative (apart from the mess – I’m just hoping all this creativity might lead to some really useful inventions in future years!).

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9 thoughts on “Swinging clip folk and clocks”

  1. what busy creative girls you have

    Id like to order one of those robots please 😉
    Saturday is B14 and my clean up the house day and wed LOVE to have some help 🙂

    bless Charlotte for teaching us our to make her clock

    I like the birds with “hand wings” the best
    Im inspired to get some art materials together for when D4 comes home on Monday

      Thanks, I’ll tell Charlotte she’s been inspiring others to get crafty 🙂 Have fun with D4, I know you’ll be very much looking forward to seeing him, Sarah x

  2. Awesome! Thanks for the link, it’s one I hadn’t come across, and can’t wait to sink my teeth into.

    My friend Kristen has a great blog for crafty / creeative ideas too http://pepperpaints.com/ , I’m thinking Fairy gardens soon!

      Thanks for that blog link Hay; I’ve taken a look and am very inspired by all the colourful creativity. Cheers, Sarah x

  3. Just wanted to say thanks again for all the great craft ideas – I will be using them with my girls!

      You’re welcome Michelle! Enjoy having lots of crafty fun 🙂

  4. Charlotte really is a clever girl. She absolutely knows what she is doing. I can’t believe she can do these things. By the way is your carpet full of scissor holes?

      Ha, ha, not yet… but give it time 🙂

  5. It’s so good to see how creative your girls are. Thanks for the link, I’ve already put it on my favourites as I can see lots of good ideas for school. (They all think I’m the crafty one but really I gather ideas like a magpie and adapt them to the current topic.)

      Glad the link is useful Ruta 🙂 I’m forever in awe of the wealth of resources available on the Internet. When I was a child with a question I’d say, ‘Best check the encyclopedia!’. These days the girls say, ‘Let’s Google it!’.

  7. Clever Charli – I’m going to show Anya what the doughnut girls have been up to. I’m sure she’d love to have a go on the typing website.

    Sarah – hope you still get to use the computer now and again! xo

  8. Just wonderful ideas and such a joy to read Charlotte….all the instructions are so easy to follow.Just amazed at all the things you have made. Have you done any more paintings recently…we can still see your lovely painting of the poppies and mountains which are framed in your room.You and Sophie make some lovely things and have such great imagination.Well done darlings and so caring of baby Alice.

  9. Sorry to contact you via your comments page.. thanks for adding your fab tomato to my Get Crafty carnival!! Yay!

    Quick, if you are interested, I now have a badge that you can use(learning new things every day!) – code is

    Do add it to your site or blog post if interested!!!

    Thank you!

    Maggy

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