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Things to do in England in the rain...making a clone trouper! Continue reading

Posted Aug 27, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Water play at the Thinktank in Birmingham. The boys especially loved the new garden. And hey, they were wet already! Continue reading

Posted Aug 25, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Rainy days part 2

Pond dipping with Nana...newts don't mind the rain! Continue reading

Posted Aug 25, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Rainy days in England

Things to do in England in the rain...making a clone trouper! Continue reading

Posted Aug 25, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Next stop Norfolk!

Having a fab time visiting Dan and Olly, especially playing with the brill castle that uncle Adam made. :-) Continue reading

Posted Jul 20, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Posted Jul 20, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Travels with Tom and Joe - first port of call

Crossing the channel and having fun outdoors and indoors in West Yorkshire. Continue reading

Posted Jul 17, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Posted Jul 17, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Posted Jul 17, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Travels with Tom and Joe

First leg...over night at Calais, en route for the UK. Continue reading

Posted Jul 14, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Quick picks

So, the anticipation is over and the summer holidays are finally here! (well they are in France at least ;o)) Whilst it would be lovely to think that the next 8/6 weeks will be a heady mix of wall to wall sunshine and carefree children brimming over with ideas to... Continue reading

Posted Jul 12, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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No more teacher's dirty looks

posted by Cara Yesterday was our last day of school (ACK!!) The kids worked hard over the last weeks to make them a nice thank you gift. They painted 20x20cm canvases a bright happy colour and then chose another fun, coordinating colour for buttons. Then, a short sentiment ('bonheur') in... Continue reading

Posted Jul 5, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Mille Sabords!

Don't worry, it's only mildly offensive! It's one of Captain Haddock's many insults and it translates as a thousand portholes; but I think in English he says blistering barnacles... Having seen the film for Philippe's birthday, Tom is now hooked on Tintin and we're steadily working our way through the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 28, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Tom's Lego Box

posted by Cara For Tom's birthday I wanted to make him something related to what he's interested in right now. Basically, that's Tintin and Star Wars Lego. Since, his party was Tintin themed and Helen had that covered, I went with Lego. I bought a plain box at the craft... Continue reading

Posted Jun 24, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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maxi figures

If there's one toy that ALL the boys I know love, it's LEGO. So when I was looking for an idea to use as the basis for several cards this summer it seemed an obvious choice. However, I'm not one to choose the easy option of making three identical cards,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 14, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Pop the Stripey Dinosaur

posted by Cara The kids' school end of the year show is this Sunday and another mom and I made a dinosaur costume for her little boy who is in Juliet's class. Pop was a character than followed her class throughout the year and now he'll be in their show... Continue reading

Posted Jun 7, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Mud, mud, glorious mud...

posted by Helen Our garden has two states - hard as concrete, or a mud bath. With all the rain we've had over the last few months, it's been mainly the latter. However, this hasn't dampened Tom and Joe's appetite for playing outdoors, in anything it seems to have increased... Continue reading

Posted Jun 1, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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First Communion

(posted by Cara) In France, making your first communion is a huge deal! People celebrate with elaborate parties and gifts. Since we had such a large guest list, 16 adults and 20 children, a restaurant was out of the question and a hall too impersonal. We had it here and... Continue reading

Posted May 24, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Tommy and Sharky

Posted May 17, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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Tom's new cuddly friend

Posted May 17, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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What can I do Mum?

posted by Helen It's a phrase often heard round here and my reply is often a list of crafty things in the hope that I might inspire Tom to leave the computer or my phone for half an hour atleast. Today, after running through all the usual options which were... Continue reading

Posted May 17, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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May 4th - blast off for our third year.

photo from moarpowah.com Well we couldn't choose any other date to relaunch ourselves and our boys into the blog-osphere, could we?! So hop into your x-wing and join us for a quick reconnaissance mission to find our where we're at nearly twelve months older if not wiser... Helen and boys... Continue reading

Posted May 4, 2012 at Crafts for Boys

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I used a stazon ink pad and letter stamps for their names, but you could use a fabric marker as well, you might want to use an iron to heat set it first so it won't fade in the wash.

Commented Jul 2, 2011 on Back to School at Crafts for Boys

Birthday Invites

posted by Cara Our renovations are still going strong, but I should finally have my kitchen by the weekend. :D It's been since Easter that we've been without it! Poor Anthony had his birthday party postponed and it's set for June 29th. This is the invitation that I made. Now,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 16, 2011 at Crafts for Boys

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Makes for Maman

Posted by Helen and Cara Sunday was the 'Fête des Mères' here, i.e. French Mother's day (managing to be different to both Canada and the UK) So we thought for a change we'd post some things that our super kids made for us. Over to Helen: Tommy made me a... Continue reading

Posted May 31, 2011 at Crafts for Boys

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