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Today’s Easter guest post is from the delightful Melissa Mander-Jones who blogs at Miss Sew & So. She describes herself as loving styling, crafting, living & laughing by the sea and every time I visit her blog or see her pics on instagram I wish I didn’t live so far away so I could pop over for a craft session and a glass of wine in her relaxing & gorgeous abode.
Everyone needs a Floral Easter crown…
This Easter craft is super quick…and CRAZY cute, once you have all your *bits* together.
We are making this at Audrey’s 9th Birthday with her *bestie gang* from school.
I’m going to have each place sorted, and set up with all they’ll each need to make their own.
I can’t wait to see how they put their’s together…undoubtedly I’ll be sitting on my *helping hands*!!
I’ll be thinking balance and they’ll be thinking *go-for-it-fun*!
The girls sweet-as crowns will have a creative energy, that as party-planner, mine will not!
What you need:
-fabric flowers…all sorts, go as simple or indulgent as you like!
-craft wire for the actual head piece {I found some in our fabric store covered in soft white fluff stuff!}
-garden ties
What to do- building that crown!
-remove all the fabric flower heads from their stems, leaving a small green end to tie onto the crown keeping the flower in firmly in place.
-measure your craft wire for the head to be crowned…
-cut to size and join so all the sharp ends are covered and tied. Lay on the table with all your inspiration {flowers, vine leaves…etc etc}
-using the green garden ties, firstly tie your vine leaves as the base and build up using your larger then smaller flowers to fill the spaces in between.
-be sure to tuck all the garden tie ends in upon themselves, so there are no sharp ends!
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Last week I had the opportunity to be ‘intern’ for the day and help out at the Kids Holiday Camp run by Megan Morton’s The School down here in Melbourne at the Abbotsford Convent masterfully organised by the fabulous Ms Candy Sparkles.
The camp ran for three days and the children could attend just one day or all three. Each day was different, but the day that I was there, the kids made dream creatures with the super talented Madeleine Stamer in the morning and sparkle terrariums with Candy in the afternoon among much more creativeness along the way like feathery & sparkly crowns, pom poms, dancing in the rain, eating hot cross buns and drinking hot chocolate.
Madeleine also drew an extra special Easter design especially for the kids in this class to colour using watercolours (you can see it in the top pic). She has been generous enough to share the design as a free download over on her blog if you’d like to print it out for yourself.
The School in Sydney runs amazing classes for both adults and children covering all things creative and stylish and can often be found running classes in other parts of the country as well. Candy is running a Kids Holiday Camp in Sydney too and there are still places left for Tuesday and Wednesday this week so if you’re a Sydney-sider, go and check out the website for more details coz I know your kids would just love it!
Being around kids expressing their creativity is something that I just can’t get enough of.
What have you been up to during the school hols? Do you go crazy with activities or spend lots of lazy days in your pj’s or a mix of both?
If you or your kidlets are up for any Easter crafting, you might like to check out our Easter Craft Series for some fun and simple Easter themed crafts, recipes and activities.
P.S. Big thanks to my beautiful friend Susannah for looking after Frog & Bear (as well as her own three kids) for the whole day so that Goose and I could go along to this. Where would we be without friends like this ? xo
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How cute was that tutorial??!! She’s going to teach me how to do fun stuff like that on my pictures too. Don’t you love having talented friends? Don’t you think she would be an awesome blogger? For another quick and easy DIY Easter gift, Caroline has also designed some adorable printables to pop on top of a bag of marshmallows to gift a bag of bunny tails. You can purchase them to print yourself at home from her online store.
This tutorial is part of a series of Easter posts where I am sharing lots of Easter crafts, recipes and activities here on the blog up until Easter. School holidays are here in Victoria. Have you got up to anything Easterish? For the rest of the series click here…
If you’d like to submit a guest post for this series, just send me an email – I’d LOVE to hear from you!
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These would look cute in a little bowl or you could hang them by adding some ribbon folded in half and attached by a pin to the top of the egg.
This post is part of an Easter series here on Frog Goose and Bear. School holidays started here in Victoria yesterday and I plan to do LOTS of Easter crafting so come on back for a visit for more over the coming fortnight! Just click on the pic below for lots more Easter themed crafts, recipes and activities.
Have you been getting your Easter craft on? If you’re up for sharing – I’d love to see pics of what you get up to!
In other news, this Wednesday I am lucky enough to be able to help out at The School’s Kids Holiday Club with the clever Ms Candy Sparkles and fifteen 5-12 year olds at the Abbotsford convent where we are going to make sparkly terrariums and amazing dream creatures. There are still spaces for the Tuesday and Thursday full day workshops – see here for details if you think your kids would LOVE it. I think they totally would!
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You’ll find more pics of the day on instagram under the hashtag #ucmelb.
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I had the pleasure of creating some Easter crafty tutorials for Kidspot recently. They are now up on the site and you can go and check them out if you like…
How to make an Easter eggshell vase …
How to make an Easter terrarium …