Just cut out some massive corrugated cardboard numbers and use them as photo props on NYE and New Year's Day. You can leave them plain or...

Potato printing is a simple and fun way to decorate cards. Both poster paint and watercolour paint types work well for potato printing -...

Until biodegradable 'Zero Plastic Sellotape' made an appearance, we avoided making sun catchers as they involved sticky-back-plastic...

To make this reusable 3D bunting, you'll need corrugated cardboard, scissors, red and pink poster paint, two paintbrushes, a hole punch...

This one takes a while but you'll get a gorgeous (and enormous) houseplant out of it. You won't grow any actual avocado fruits on the...

Yellow dandelion flowers are abundant at this time of year - so put them to good use by printing with them, their delicate petals make...

I made this without much input from the kids - the cardboard is too thick for children to cut, so I enjoyed a bit of 'me time' crafting....

Adapted from the 'Union Jack Yarn Heart Garland' on the favecrafts website. I've added the lengths of wool required for each stage (as I...

Use 3 toilet roll tubes for the bunny - pinch two of them into 'ear' shapes (pinch hard at one side to make the pointy tip of each ear...

Gather together... 1 loo roll tube. Green paint(s) - a mixture of dark and light greens makes a scaly-skin effect. Paintbrush. Newspaper...

This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...

All shop-bought 'slime' will be packaged in plastic as well as containing plastic in the 'slime' itself. Some homemade 'slime' recipes...

This flying seagull puppet is plastic free and can be fully composted (or the string removed and re-used and the paper recycled) when...

This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...

Simple to do but AMAZING for developing the all-important 'pincer grip' in toddlers. I avoid plastic googly eyes as they are single use...

This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...

This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...

So many snowflake patterns require a specialist craft knife and a cutting mat, these snowflakes require simply a pair of scissors. I used...

This craft gives toddlers a helpful visual image of the countdown to Christmas, and it is completely compostable once the festive season...

This is a recipe for 'cooked' playdough, because that's what my Mum used to make for us as kids (and for the various playgroups and...

These hanging bird seed shapes are ideal to make with children, as the coconut oil requires very little heat to soften it - so the...