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Mother’s Day Toddler Crafts

Like most toddlers our little one lives for a bit of gluing and sticking. If he’s given a piece of paper he’ll draw and colour, or cut it into shapes. Toddlers love all that stuff, and if you sprinkle it liberally with glitter then so much the better.

As Mother’s Day approaches we decided it’d be a nice thing for him to create a mini masterpiece for his Nan. We’d recently taken delivery of a fab activity pack from DoCrafts. The activity packs are brilliant, value for money selections of craft items. We got a general activity pack, but they also do seasonal ones for Christmas and Easter which are a really great idea, especially if you do a lot of toddler crafts.

We sat down and together we unpacked our activity pack. It was heaving with products to choose from and there’s a real variety of craft items, it costs £9.95 and the products inside are worth about double that.

We chose the coloured feathers, foam letters and the chunky pipe cleaners. From our own collection I grabbed a piece of green paper, some glitter and some pva glue. What you have there is the ultimate recipe for toddler joy.

We set to work, because this was a special picture for his Nan I did give him some artistic direction, mainly in the placing of the foam letters in the right order and the twisting of the pipe cleaner into a heart shape. Everything else was his own, pretty impressive work. I loved how he just tipped the glitter into the heart shape without prompting or suggestion. He chose the colour of the feathers and glued them on himself. In fact he glued everything on himself.

toddler crafts

He was so proud of his little picture. I have tended to shy away from crafts at home because I don’t like the mess, but this has really encouraged me to do more with him, especially now I’ve seen how proficient he’s become with the paintbrush and glue as well as how much he really loved doing it.

I think we’ll have regular crafting sessions at home now, it’s fun, the look on his face and us working together on something was just joyful, and it’s not actually as messy as I thought.

Disclaimer: We were sent the activity pack free of charge by DoCrafts for review purposes, but it’s a cracking little bag of goodies, and these are our honest opinions.

My Unique & Special Mother’s Day Gift

Mother’s Day is nearly here and I don’t know about you, but I really struggle to find inspiration for presents for my Mum which aren’t the usual wine, chocolates and flowers. Now I love wine, chocolates and flowers, but sometimes it’s nice to pull something a little bit special and a little bit different out of the bag.

When I stumbled across local Manchester company, Feb25 I knew they were definitely a little bit different and a little bit special. They create lovely, unique and personalised designs and prints for any occasion. From something unique and lovely for your baby; a present for a new home or for a birthday, or on this occasion, Mother’s Day.

The prints are designed from scratch following an easy consultation about the recipient. Feb25 then put some ideas together and come up with a few designs to choose from, you can then tweak them as much or as little as you want for no extra charge.

Feb25 are so helpful and professional, I can’t fault their service. They worked with my boys to come up with a design that was very me, I was blown away by the results. So much so that I commissioned them to do a similar version for my blog redesign (more of which at a later date).

For such a personal and personalised, professional service you’d expect the prints to cost the earth, not so, they start from around £20 depending on what you want, but they’re a brilliant price considering the work that goes into them by their talented design team.

Feb25

So if you want something unique, special and lovely, for your unique, special and lovely Mum this Mother’s Day, then I can heartily recommend Feb25. Check out their website, drop them a line and see what loveliness they can create for you.

Disclaimer: Feb25 worked with me and my family to create my gorgeous bespoke, just for me print. The print was given to me for free in return for an honest write-up of their brilliant service.

For more gift ideas check out my Mother’s Day gift guide here.