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Gum tree organisers

While walking during the week Master D and I collected bark and leaves from some local gum trees. Their scent is delicious – makes me feel like I am in the bush.

When we got home I pulled out a couple of tins and Master D got decorating, while Little Miss Q played with some of our supplies 🙂

It was a bit of trial and error to get our them to stick. We tried glue and wrapping them around the tins, but we didn’t have much luck keeping them in place.

We ended up laying out masking tape and putting our bark and leaves on it, before wrapping it around the tins.

Now we have great paint brush and pen holders!

Happy crafting, Kelly

Marble painting for baby and boy

Recently Little Miss Q had fun marble painting!

I used a plastic takeaway container to put in a piece of paper, a few marbles and some drops of paint. Once the lid was on she happily shook it around, threw it on the floor and otherwise ‘painted’ with it.

Master D also got in on the action, using the more conventional methods. And because he loves mixing colours he really enjoyed rolling the marbles and seeing the colours mingle.

We now have some great wrapping paper!

Happy painting, Kelly