🇬🇧 It was a year of many different creative activities, trying many new things and finding my creative flow. Too little space in our house to be able to do crafts, all craft supplies in moving boxes. The renovation in the attic to build my own studio. I […]

🇬🇧 December, as always the busiest month of the year: Even more creativity in the shelter. Two exhibitions of the children in the art classes. Decorating my studio – it’s going to be beautiful! Several beautiful creative projects for Guusje! Of course preparing for and celebrating the holidays. […]

🇬🇧 Sinterklaas has been in the Netherlands for a while now and of course we baked ‘pepernoten’ (ginger bread) and… decorated our own chocolate letters! For the ginger bread we used Kant & Klaar Kruidnotendeeg. It couldn’t be easier: take the dough out of the packaging, roll into […]

🇬🇧 What a month! Building my own studio, painting pumpkins, volunteering for refugees and organising creative activities, celebrating our Dutch holidays Sint Maarten and Sinterklaas, finishing my family photo yearbooks, volunteering kids crafts in our library, finally painting again and new assignments for parrot portraits… I can say […]

🇬🇧 I’ve already spent a few wonderful days crafting with the refugees in our village! As soon as I can, I visit and take several creative activities with me. I gave all children their own portfolio (a file with empty sheets) in which they can draw and craft […]

🇬🇧 Mark your calender: on December 19th there will be an exhibition from Art class 6+. The kids will show you what they made during their classes and there will be a surprise auction! I’ll be there too and I can’t wait! 🇳🇱 Noteer in je agenda: op […]

🇬🇧 What I used:– Printable Sint & Piet– Black and silver paint– Toilet rolls– Markers for coloring Print out the coloring pages and give Sint a nice beard and Piet curly hair! I used silver paint for Sinterklaas because I printed on white paper. But you can also […]

🇬🇧 “See the moon shining through the trees,” is a Dutch sentence from a Sinterklaas song. What I used:– Black paper– Paint in blue tones– Gold paint– A twig from my garden– These houses (see my free printables) of black and yellow paper– Glue Paint the background blue, […]

🇬🇧 Mark your calender: on December 9th there will be an exhibition from Art class 9+. The kids will show you what they made during their classes and there will be a surprise auction! I’ll be there too and I can’t wait! 🇳🇱 Noteer in je agenda: op […]

🇬🇧 We decided to do things differently this year and we painted our pumpkins for the first time!  I painted little ghosts with my thumb and my daughter painted her pumpkin with brushes and her fingers as well. I drew little faces with a black Posca marker and […]