Halloween Toucan Box

I'm still having problems with Toucan being able to bill my card for our monthly boxes (gutted) 

I have the same problem with Graze too :(

So when I went to collect a parcel I had missed while out on the school run I was so excited to see a toucan box among the pile. I was hoping being October it would be a Halloween themed craft and YAY it was!

Me and Daisie didn't hang about as soon as I had checked a christmas present that was in the bundle and hid it, Daisie called me about getting started so we did just that!

It was such a simple craft I'm planning on stocking up on some supplies that were provided to make some more to hang around the house. 

We were both very pleased with our end result, I need to grab a picture but it's gone missing as soon as I find it I'll update this post :)

You can sign up to get your own toucan box (first one FREE) by following this link  - https://mention-me.com/m/ol/gtx-linda-ewing

Our First Toucan Box

 

Today our first toucan box arrived, The minute Daisie saw the box she thought it was her graze box love her but she couldn't wait to dive in.

As this was our first box we got it FREE 

we will without a doubt be sticking with our subscription of £3.95 for the petite box you can upgrade to a grande box for an extra £6 a month (£9.95) we will upgrade to the grande one day.

When you sign up there is a number of themes for your box to choose from in two different age groups 'early years foundation stage 3-5 years old ' and 'key stage one and key stage two 5 to 8 years old'

with each box you get a sticker to add to your toucan box prize chart

which you can then exchange for a gift once you hit a certain amount of stickers the first being 5 or save them up to get yourself an even bigger gift.

 

Our first box was about jellyfish!

On the back of the little booklet/card to tell you how to make your jellyfish is some little facts about jellyfish, Did you know jellyfish aren't actually fish? or that they don't have brains? 

There was enough craft stuff to make two jellyfish so you can race them, Issy will be decorating and making her jellyfish when she gets home from school then let the races begin!!

Daisie's having so much fun getting her jellyfish to move up the ribbon. 

As you can see in the photos Daisie used some star stickers we had lying around the house but everything else you see in the photos is supplied by toucan box.

You can get yourself a FREE box 'here'

better yet for every friend you recommend that signs up you get 5O% off your next box

Christmas craft/bucket list

Decorate goody bags

Make christmas cookies

Make a christmas tree from loo roll tubes

Make feet print reindeers

Make felt Christmas trees

Visit Santa in his grotto

Go see the reindeer's

Make Christmas cakes 

Decorate baubles

Make hand/feet art

Make a wreath 

Write a letter to Santa

Decorate our tree
Make decorations out of the ends of bottles

Bucket list - Making a autumn tealight holder

You'll need

- A jar

- Plenty of leaves

- PVA glue

- Gold glitter paint (optional) 

any extras you wish to add

After seeing a autumn tea light holder on pinterest I think it was I couldn't wait to give it a go with the girls. 
It's the perfect little thing to do this autumn it doesn't take up a huge amount of time and there's hardly any mess unless you wish to add some colour of course, I recommend to use the leaves shortly after you hunted them down, I grabbed some and left them for a few days but they ended being so dried out that they wouldn't stick to the jar at all, So today I grabbed some more on the way home from the school run and they stuck a whole lot better :)  Not only are these perfect for the autumn around the house (the idea is once a tea light is in the jar it will glow all the lovely autumn colours of the leaves) I grab as many colours & shapes of leaves as i can to add some variety. They also make the perfect hand made gifts for nanny/grandmas, aunties/uncles, grandads etc

Crafty Mumma

Now i can be quite the crafty mumma when i put my mind to it, I LOVE to give things ago myself rather than pay a fortune to have someone else do it for me, I've seen the blinged up converse everywhere and always fancied a pair for my girls but Issy is a serial toe scuffer so they wouldn't last 5 minutes (she's on her 5th pair of school shoes since starting school, she wrecked her first pair on her first day at school) yes! she really is that bad when it comes to scuffing up shoes most of them ended up with flapping soles where they had been scuffed so badly on the toes, i'm dreading Daisie being the same anyway back to the point of this post, i was only meant to be replacing the laces to Daisie's converse with some ribbon but once i opened my crafty box i had the idea of using the minnie mouse heads that I've had for ages and was meant to make hair clips with and i had some left other pearls from when i decorated a phone case for myself awhile ago, so she ended up with some blinged up toes to her converse :) i had to order in some matching ribbon after i had done the toes it arrived and I'm not keen on it but it will do until i order in some white ribbon :) I'm yet to decorate Issy's pair for her

I could have ordered one of these in cheap enough but i could make it myself even cheaper ;) I love doing things myself for the girls it gives it abit more of a personal touch :) i plan on doing some with their names and adding some hooks so they can hang their dressing gowns on and bags etc, as well as some crown hair clip holders

I also made taggy blankets for them both when i was pregnant with Daisie and loads of headbands for Daisie but i hardly put them on her as i was terrified they'd be abit tight on her head and she couldn't exactly tell me they were hurting, I'd love to make them a patch work quilt each when i get the chance and get abit more clued up on working my sewing machine :) I've made myself a few pairs of earrings (not that i wear them but still i get to say i made them)

Do you get abit crafty in your spare time?

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