Today marks the release of Ali Coghlans debut book ‘Get Crafty’, it’s a step by step guide with lots of creative, fun and inexpensive crafts for kids including bubble paint, edible crowns and jelly playdough. Covering all occasions from Paddy’s Day to Halloween this book is bound to encourage their imagination and creativity.
And to mark the launch I have a copy of ‘Get Crafty’ to giveaway to one My little Babog reader.
To enter COMMENT below and tell me what your kids love to recycle at home so that they can ‘Get Crafty’?
Get Crafty is available to purchase for €14.99 in all good book stores today.
Competition closes March 16th at 9pm. The winner will be notified by email. Part of this giveaway is hosted on Facebook but is not endorsed by Facebook. Giveaway is open worldwide. I received a copy for the purpose of this giveaway.
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Looks like a great book; toilet rolls, corks and egg cartons are always kept for our crafting box. Oh, and boxes, any size or shape, they can make sooo many different things.
Looks like a gorgeous book. My gang keep everything, toilet rolls, various boxes, ribbons, buttons, you name it, they’ve kept it and some stage.
Egg boxes, old cards, any boxes, glittery things, magazines 🙂
fab prize would love to win for after school xx
I use foil dishes and the silver coloured lids are saved to be used for collage.
My granddaughters keep every scrap of fabric, paper and anything else you can think of. They are so creative and love making things.
Cereal boxes are a favourite, you can make so much out of them
Toilet rolls, egg boxes and bits of ribbon and old christmas and birthday cards.
Great prize. Toilet rolls and pretty much any empty food container provide hours of fun here!
We turn bday and christmas cards in to hanging decoratating n post cards
My toddler loves loo rolls and magazines for sticking
Near enough anything possible to recycle she will be able to turn nothing into something
my son loves helping me upcycle empty jars for battery operated tea lights he also like making robots out of old boxes
They love using old envelopes to make all sorts of creations – such as Paper Planes, Hats and decorations !
Have to keep all the cereal boxes, she loves making all different things with them.
My kids love to recycle toilet rolls as there is so many different things you can make out of them an they are always in the home
We recycle loads of cardboard in craft activities, and yoghurt pots, jam jars, and so on.
my daughter keeps cardboard boxes and likes to make houses and robots x
Cardboard tubes, milk bottles, tin foil
Toilet roll tubes, cereal boxes and loads of sellotape!!
Yohurt pots and toilet rolls
Looks amazing for my 6 year old 🙂
Sounds like a good book to have. I sometimes have moments where I can’t think of anything interesting to make.
Our latest recycled creation was a bottle rocket ship made from a lucozade bottle and a cereal box x
We recycle mainly cards, the beginning and end of the tinfoil roll and the cardboard inners of loo rolls and paper towels.
Oh this looks great! We use so so many different things when crafting. At the moment we’re trying not to use too many eggs boxes or loo rolls because they are collecting at school, but empty milk cartons (4 pinters) make a fab craft tool! Last month Reuben made a giant igloo with his class! It was epic! H x
Great giveaway, I’d love to win! We hardly do any crafts so this would give me some ideas! x
My kids love recycling old birthday cards and Christmas cards. They make pictures with them.
My kids loved to recycle at home so that they could ‘Get Crafty’? Everything that could be Recyclable, from Milk and Juice Cartonsand Bottles, Egg Boxes to Cereal Boxes, Toilet Roll Tubes to Kitchen Roll, Newspapers, Ribbons, and Bows. Now I have Two Grandsons, I’m just as Bad for Recycled Craft. I do love Inspiration, your book ‘Get Crafty’ Fun, Creative Crafts for Children could do, as one of my Grandsons is under the age of two. I also have an Indian ringneck parrot and he doesn’t like to be left out of Recycled Crafts, so I save up Recyclable materials to make him a Toy or Two.
What a fantastic book, with great ideas.
My 4 year old daughter loves to recycle and is always coming up with ideas of what we can make out of everything from kitchen towel holders to baked beans cans!
We love using the anchor butter pots. Oh and toilet rolls
Foil Sweet and chocolate wrappers are a favourite with my little Grandchldren – they love to make collages wih them – luckily Nanny is a Chocaholic – so I have a ready supply for their craft box when they come over xxx
Toilet rolls, egg boxes and cardboard boxes
Egg boxes, cereal boxes and kitchen roll tubes are favourites 🙂
They love toilet rolls and cereal boxes.
Cereal boxes are great to make things out of.
Toilet rolls and yoghurt pots
Kitchen roll tubes and boxes are always great for crafts
We have used old wrapping paper to do a paper mache Easter bonnet for my little girl
My children are always recycling cardboard boxes. My daughter loves to make dolls houses with them.
At the moment it is turning old clothes and charity shop buys into owls
My two love sewing, so rather than throw old clothes away, we keep them and the kids cut them up and sew them into something new.
My son loves making bird feeders from plastic bottles and then watching the birds feed from them from his bedroom window.
Cutting our letters and pictures from newspapers and magazines and making collages.
We recycle yoghurt pots to make all sorts of exciting things, from mobiles to trains! Always looking for new ideas though, this sounds great.
loo roll inners, yogurt cartonsand empty food boxes plus glitter and glue x
Boxes
My children are always recycling cardboard boxes
Egg boxes, toilet rolls and empty bottles
Crafting is a great way of spending time with the children. Creativity at its best. Egg boxes scraps of fabric silver foil, before you know it you have a space rocket!!!
My grandchildren are wonderful at collecting for crafts,apart from the usual toilet/kitchen toll tubes they also collect egg boxes,polystyrene chips from parcels,the lids from toothpaste and hairspray are wonderful for building rockets.I’d be delighted to win this as I could have hours of fun with my grandchildren x
My children collect empty toilet rolls, yoghurt pots, coffee jars, soda bottles, cardboard boxes, wrapping paper. Pretty much anything they can use for painting, sticking, glueing, building. More gets put in their craft tub than gets put in the recycling bin!!
My little girl is always taking the toilet roll tubes to make bracelets out of.
We’ve recently been saving up egg boxes for Easter crafts!
We love collecting plastic bottles which we fill with various materials to make sensory bottle/shakers!
Anything she can get her hands on
Anything i can make things out off
my little boy loves recycling egg boxes, paper plates and toilet rolls 🙂 xx
My 10 year old Millie, collects everything, she is a wee hoarder. She recyles shoe boxes and puts all her collected items, from stones to tubes to cartons.
we recycle toilet roll middles, sweet wrappers, tin foil, cereal boxes, shoe boxes and they all make wonderful presents
plastic juice bottles, to make ‘sausage dogs’ etc 😀
nieces and nephews like to make things recycling items
Anything they can get their hands on, usually empty boxes.
My daughter makes rockets out of Fairy Liquid bottles and also made lovely Xmas decorations by recycling printer paper that would otherwise have been thrown away.
I love doing crafts, so would love to win this so ican come up with ideas of crafts to do with my son x
My kids love to decorate shoe boxes to keep their keepsakes in x
Empty cereal boxes are great or crafts x
my grandchildren and god son loves sitting with me and making things we go on a treasure hunt to see what we can find to use there imagination then we come home and see who can make what out of what we found(with a little help ) the kids love it
My’crafty’ grandchildren are fond of emptyting almost any containers before they’re really empty to make rockets or trinkets etc.
Egg boxes. There are loads of crafts to make with these and they can be painted, cut etc.
egg boxes yogurt pots
we use a lot of empty loo rolls, makes good legs, pipes, people!!
Boxes of every shape and size!! Also loo rolls and kitchen rolls 🙂
Fabric scraps card and paper offcuts and lots of boxes!
Normally toilet/kitchen rolls and plastic bottles to make spaceships
Cereal Boxes, toilet and kitchen Roll.
cardboard boxes…our recent make was a robot body with cling film and old buttons ect 🙂
My son loves to decorate kitchen roll tubs and pretends they are telescopes
We love crafting with toilet rolls and make planes, animals and all sorts of things.
Lovely giveaway. Lamb isn’t really crafty at the mo which breaks my heart but I’m hoping he get back into arts & crafts soon x
Congrats thecraftymummyblog you have won the ‘Get Crafty’ book by Ali Coghlan. You’ve got mail!!!