For Children

In this section we will provide things to do for children: crafts, painting, decorations - and of course we have the theme of the Alps.
We will show what children from the Alps are playing with and provide you with examples and designs for glass paint, typical seasonal decorations you can find in Austria, Slovenia, North-Italy, South-Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and South-East-France.

 

Homemade Christmas Cards

I start to get into Christmas mood when I start to do things: bake Christmas cookies, starting to decorate Christmas decoration and especially creating homemade Christmas cards. I turn on my preferred Christmas music, boil a cup of apple-cinnamon tea and sing along. But to be honest, I am no grinch can get into Christmas mood when pre-selecting Christmas items in January.
Personally I have the best time crafting when in company with kids. I am very flexible: relatives, frien

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Paper Box Folding

It is very easy and quick to make simple rectangular boxes out of paper without a pattern. When the temperatures in summer drop back into moderate areas, you will get into the mood to craft and make something. It might be to warm for wool or yarn, you can't even stand the warmth of the light of your sewing machine and think the engine warms the air. Baking gets beyond bearable in the end of July, beginning of August. This is the perfect time to grab paper and scissor and start with crafting Or

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Free Printable Thanks Gift Tags

It is time to say thank you – Thanks to all for your trust and shopping with us and coming back to shop with us again and again. Thanks to all our regular customer. Thnak you for recommending us to your friends. Thanks for the nice and sweet mails and the photos of self baked cookies made with MiaDeRoca cutters a

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Craft paper flowers out of muffin liners

Paper flowers can be handy at all times, you can use them for all kinds of table decorations and party adornments, have them as e

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DIY garland made of Paper baking cups

Colourful paper baking moulds are the perfect asset to your self made muffins and cupcakes – but did you know that you can use these muffin liners to craft decoration like this Pom Pom garland. You only need a little bit of crafting gear, and with a few steps your can create this garland – a great piece of decoration for mother's day. Daddies and kids can smooth, fold, glue together and create this holiday decoration.

The cupcake liner garland will suit as great decoration for many festivities;

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Witchivity - Charades

Theme parties for children are a great hit in our circle of friends and family. Be it dragons, witches, knights or princesses: as anybody likes we even match food and games with the theme. For the witches party we started in decorating everything together – we made buntings and stamped on it with Continue reading Comments (0) 27.04.2013. 23:35

Printable Parsley Pesto Labels

Pesto is quick to make and perfectly storable for some weeks. So you will get quickly a great dish for many meals to come and you can store fresh herbs. This dish bursting of freshness is not only great as a quickly to prepare dish for lunch or dinner – we cherish Pestos as little gifts, like delicious ramsons pesto with ramsons-pesto labels or the li

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City-Country-River Game

Saturday evening and the TV does not work, a long train ride, rain during summer vacations, a mega traffic jam on the motorway – to deal with such situation and prevent boredom, we have a collection of family games available. If we are with smaller children the game session usually starts with "I spy with my little eye something beginning with B..." (when the kids are to small to hand

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Easter Stitching Pattern

Easter is for many countries the spring holiday – the table is set with bright and vivid colours, multi-coloured eggs, table decorations in pastels and vernal flowers. We love handmade and especially things crafted by kids among our table decorations, be it Easter bunny napkin rings or self made egg cups and cress eggs with bunny faces – they are adorable, and you can straight away collect the cress and have it with your scrambled egg or your sunny side up or directly on top of bread and butter.

The serviette rings and eggcups are available a

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Making stamps with foam rubber

It is fairly easy to make your own stamps. For those who who like to make use of synergies, like we love to do, it is even easier – as you can use cookie cutters for the shapes of your stamps. Why synergies? Because you might have used the very same cookie cutters for other elements of your party decorations. Maybe you already have cookies matching your party theme, or decorations for your party cake, or as ingredient to a soup (have a look at our dragon soup), or for finger food (as we did for our spooky Flapis) or you u

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Making envelopes

Make matching envelopes for hand made greeting cards, or wrap a gift of money individually or match the envelope with the wrapping of the gift – all that you can do when you make your own envelopes out of pap

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Mother's Day Gift Coupon

Mother's Day is a great day to celebrate and to gift – on the one hand you do celebrate the person who is responsible that you are here and second it is a tremendous time to celebrate in early may (at least in middle Europe mother's day is on the second Sunday of May). Mother's Day is a great party in late spring: blooming bushes, lovely colourful flowers, cakes with the firs

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Colourful Easter Cards

You are planing on having a family meal for Easter and are looking for nice invitation cards? Or, your would like to send

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Wild Garlic Pesto Tags

Maybe you have not yet read it in this magazine, that's why we mention it again: we like to gift home made pesto, jam and marinated feta. Our friends, relatives, hosts and hostesses do enjoy these little presents. We take care that not only the ingredients are convincing, but that the look of the jars is already an eye candy, that's why we decorate them – Continue reading Comments (0) 16.03.2012. 12:07

Decorating Jam Jars

Homemade jams and chutneys, and home cooked pestos – these are culinary delights to spoil your loved ones. And they are great hostess gifts and small presents when seeing relatives, visiting friends or want to light up the day

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Embroidery Pattern Hearts and Apple

After we have introduced in October the small crochet basket with embroidery, we have received several emails by MiaDeRoca readers to ask for some more small stitching patterns... Small meaning a height of less than ten rows. Of course, we could, as we are as well caught by the embroidery bug – for the start we have some hearts and and apple.

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Colourful Tealight glasses cover – sweet knit

With easy to knit woollen tea light glass wrappers you get coloured tealight candleholders, which you can embroider according

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Autumn Decoration Basket with Candle Embroidery

When it is getting cold outside and snow glitters at the top of the mountains, than it is time to light candles. In our living room I love to use tea candles. Dear friend do bring some great smelling ones when they visit. To have those lovely close at hand and keep them in a nice box, I do need the perfect little basket. The mission: a sweet crochet basket.

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Selfmade Ivy Wreath

Wreaths made of ivy or other climbing plants like Virginia creeper are easy and quick to make. You can use them as simple green wreath or add some autumnal decoration. The wreaths usually stay nice for some weeks and you can adorn them depending on the occasion or season.

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Rainy Days 2: Watching Alpine Movies

Our second part of "Things To Do for Rainy Days" has some things for Grown-ups and Children. If the sky is all gray and its raining cats, dogs and goats, then you have to stay inside to spend your precious free time.

Many take their laptop or notebook with them when they are travelling. Maybe it is to finish some work that was not completed the days before the vacation started, or to regularly check their e-mails.

If your portable PC or Mac has a DVD-Slot, then grab some movies for your holidays and if it might be a little wet and cold outside you can watch the Alps in technicolor in your hotel, caravan or pension.

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Rabbit Serviette Ring

We not only like to celebrate Easter and other festivities, we love to do crafts and crafty stuff with children on these very special occasions. Be it friends of your own children, some kids from the neighbourhood or relatives and friends, soon a big bunch of young craftistas will be around your table.

This crafty how to is especially for Easter table decoration and children love to be part of your Easter preparations

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Salt Dough Christmas Decoration

Salt dough is a great modelling clay, which can be prepared quickly and easy at home. What is perfect about it: it is nontoxic and can therefore be used by the little ones at well and you all can enjoy crafty Christmas preparations. The basic dough consists of two parts of flour, one part salt and water.

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The Advent Calendar

An Advents Calendar has 24 doors or little gifts, for every day of December, from December first to 24th. 24 times of anticipation. We love Advent Calendars!

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Rainy days 1: in the internet

Finally summer arrived, we enjoyed the first warm days in the pool and some tasted lake temperatures, we ate strawberries and picked raspberries. For many children the best time of year starts: summer holidays. Several weeks tons of free time, time to look forward to swimming, making trips, playing in the garden on play grounds or some might even go to high rope courses and then, what to we get: rain, rain, rain.

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Cross Stitch Pattern Strawberry

We love flowers, we love fruits and if after the long, long winter everything starts to blossom and bloom, our mood is cheerful and happy.
And if there are not only flowers, but fruits - then the first crop can be harvested. If we are lucky and our balcony or garden is on the sunny side, than it is the time that the first strawberries are eaten right where they grow.

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Cross Stitching Pattern Winter

For January we have chosen calming, relaxing and soul-soothing embroideries. The days are slowly getting longer again, but they are far too short and the dark, warm evenings can be used for nice things to do in the living room.

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Cross Stitch Pattern Candles and Mug

Turn on your kettle, and pour yourself a nice cup of tea. October is the perfect time to find some nice evening leisure time.

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Stitching in the Autumn

In September, the summer ends and autumn begins, first very slowly your realize the days are shorter and the nights longer. The nights get cooler, many ripe fruit and vegetables, harvest festival here and there and the leaves are changing from lush green into wonderful warm colours: yellow, orange, red and brown.

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Pinwheels

Handmade wind or pinwheels are a nice decoration in summer for flower boxes, the entrance door or for the balcony or even a nice eye-catcher on a gift package.

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Template with Cows

If you ever have been to the Alps, rather to Switzerland, Germany and Austria, than say French Alps - you will probably have seen one animal very, very often. They come in grey, brown, in muictures of black and white, brown and white, or all black. I am talking of cows.

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Glass Painting Template Stags

In our shop we meet a lot of people who like deer - and we have to say we like deer too, we like deer hinds and stags too.

So we decided that we have to have a glass painting template showing stags. In this template you will find one standing stag and a head of a stag, similar to a trophy.

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Edelweiss Glass Painting

We provide you with a template motif for glass painting - three Edelweiss in three different sizes.

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Deer Egg Cozy

This deer egg cozy is of course also a "dear egg cozy". It is cuddly, nice and warm, likes to keep eggs warm and decorate your table and add some Alpine style to your home.

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Egg Cups

There are loads of eggs during easter - freshly cooked or coloured, chocolate eggs and other sweet delicacies in egg shape. In order that the dainty eggs have an adequate place, you need a suitable eggcup. For those who like to do things with their own hands and be creative we have a very simple instructions for selfmade egg cups, that fit well on the Easter table fit, but also for other spring occasions.

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Cress Eggs

Cress is a wonderful spring messenger - promises us green, fresh vitamins, bioflavonoids and freshly harvested it has a wonderful taste. Garden cress is perfect for us during the dark winter to give us a sign of our own herb garden. The cress can be easily bred and within a few days harvested.

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