I was wanting to make some decorations for outside my house for Halloween this year and one thing I wanted to figure out was how to make a giant halloween spider that could hang from my upstairs window and look pretty spooky! Continue reading How to Make a Giant Halloween Spider
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LayZSpa ChemConnect Dispensing Too Much Chlorine
So when I first got my Lay-z-spa Saint Tropez hot tub I bought the chlorine granules to keep the water in the spa clean. These worked really well as they kept the chlorine at the correct level after a shock dose and then adding 2 teaspoons a day of the granules to the water.
In fact I had no problems with this at all except that my only issue was having to make sure I was doing this whether I was using the hot tub or not that day. So I decided that it would make sense to try out the chlorine tablets with the special dispenser that came with the hot tub. Continue reading LayZSpa ChemConnect Dispensing Too Much Chlorine
Monster Doughnuts With No Plastic!
For an event we were running as a PTA we wanted to sell monster donuts to the children and adults who were coming so we looked around for a recipe for monster doughnuts that we could easily make.
We weren’t actually going to make the monster doughnuts ourselves but instead buy some and decorate them with monster faces. The ones that we had seen on Pinterest had edible eyes and then plastic mouths that opened over the hole of the donut (which you can buy very cheaply online) but we didn’t want to use any more plastic than we needed to so we decided to go another route with the monster mouths! Continue reading Monster Doughnuts With No Plastic!
What are the Chances of Winning Higher or Lower with 5 Cards?
Higher or Lower, or Play Your Cards Right, is a card game using a standard deck of cards, where you have to guess whether the next card is going to be higher or lower than the one you have just turned over.
You can play it with different numbers of cards but for the game that we set up for our summer fair, we decided to pay with 5 cards. We bought these A4 playing cards from Amazon UK. (You can also get jumbo playing cards in the US but I am not sure how popular this game is there!) Continue reading What are the Chances of Winning Higher or Lower with 5 Cards?
Eco-Friendly Newspaper Kids Party Bags
If, like me, you are trying to do your bit to reduce your waste footprint on the planet and reuse whatever you can, then this is just a small way to help with one of those things that can create unneeded plastic waste at kids birthday parties.
I decided this year that instead of buying (very cheap I have to say) themed plastic party bags I would either make something myself or buy paper bags.
To be fair you can buy reasonably cheap paper party bags
