It was another gloomy Saturday so we decided to stay at home to do art and craft and baking with the kids. It’s always a great way of spending family time together. At times, it can be quite stressful for me preparing the items before both children start pestering me. So I brought out all the stuff we needed the night before.

We started off making Christmas cards for our relatives in Singapore using a stencil to draw and write on the card. I still remember when I was very young we used to own a few huge stencils from Alphabet to Numbers. We used those with our school projects, posters and school bag. Now there are so many different types of stencils from letter stencils to cake stencils. After the kids finished using the stencils, they randomly pasted foam shapes, coloured paper and flowers on the Christmas card ready to send off to Singapore!

Not long ago, MoreThan had teamed up with award-winning artist Ed Chapman to create the world’s first-ever ‘ruined carpet art’. It is a fifteen-foot sized piece using living room carpet as a canvas and created out of the most common household stains.

Today, we decided to have a lazy Saturday day in with lots of activities and of course a movie and popcorn! Arts and crafts is always a regular activity we love to do as a family. This Poppet Beads set came at just the right time! This Moshi beads is from Vivid Toys and Games. There are 1400 beads in eight different colours. We placed each colour into different pots to help keep the table tidy!  For the grown-ups, I found that having surgical forceps helped. It’s probably not a regular household item but a pair of tweezers would work just as well too!

This month has been an exciting month for us. We were away to attend events in London but we also had a few days in where we did activities together. Today, we decided to have a lazy Sunday and I took out the Eggnogg for them to colour in. If you have not heard of Eggnogg.co.uk, they have grown from developing a range of greeting cards to keeping little people busy with a unique range of colour-in products.  The products have a no-nonsense attitude that both children and adults adore.  The bold designs allow for scribbles to find their way between the lines, helping challenge the senses through colour, texture and humour.

Yesterday was our last lesson for our Lichfield Mandarin Club and we held an end of term party with food and performances from the children.  After nine months of hard work, our children are able to speak Mandarin.  They are still working on their writing but still we are very proud of their improvement.

After food, we had a performance by the children where we each performed an act.  A few weeks ago, I was asked to make a turnip.  I was thinking buying cream and green cloth for the act.  In the end, I just found whatever I could around the house to make a turnip.

Last Friday, Mr K asked if I can help him to make an Easter Basket to enter his school Easter competition. I was quite happy to do so. Yesterday, we went out through the snow to get some art and craft material in town.

Although Easter is a couple more weeks away, both of my kids are very excited to receive these Easter Egg Hunt kits from Home Bargains to review! Inside the box, it comes with 4 coloured masks, 4 card baskets, 12 card signs, 24 Easter egg shaped tokens, shredded yellow tissue paper and 4 white elastic cords.

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