Last weekend I tried testing a new toy with a friend’s daughter. We opened and used the awesome Textur’Art kit by MAPED CREATIV (read here for the post). We had so much fun that yesterday we decided to do it again! This time with a great toy by Joustra – their super Mandala Kit. In…
Halloween is here! Looking for ideas for HALLOWEEN CRAFT projects? While I was looking through the FunLab archive for Halloween crafts the other afternoon, I rediscovered loads of great holiday ideas. I ran across so many cute projects that I decided to remake one. A couple of years a go we did a collaboration with…
At the beginning of the summer, I was honoured to be asked to speak at a training session to share the FunLab experience using digital platforms during the COVID quarantine. As you know, school shut down this year with no advance notice. This meant that we had to reinvent our JOLLY PHONICS based courses in…
FunLab has been holding summer camps since the first year that it opened 10 years ago. This year due to COVID, we did not hold our yearly craft camp but that doesn’t mean that we have stopped crafting! A couple of years ago during one of our camps we did this great craft – STRING…
The arrival of warm weather and sunny days makes staying inside for the COVID19 quarantine a real challenge for adults. For children, it is even worse. Why don’t you use this time constructively? Go get out all those craft kits that you just have never had time to open and use! For us, that meant…
I am writing this on the 16th of March 2020 – a historic date. We are starting the 4th week of nationally imposed house quarantine to fight against the spread of the COVID19 epidemic. While house quarantine is an essential part of dealing with the epidemic, it has been really hard on families. This is…
I love it when the weather starts to change! It is time to go for long walks and look for pine cones and other fun stuff. However, the kids always complain. They say that we pick up lots of pine cones on our walks but then we never use them. This year I decided to…
Toy Story 4 has arrived! If you haven’t seen it yet – make sure you do while it is on the big screen. We love all the characters but MR POTATO HEAD is one of our favorites. One afternoon when I was hanging out with the kids, we decided to try to make a MR…
Okay I mastered how to do the CROCHET chain stitch and then I asked myself, “What next?!”. Not much I could think to do with the crochet chain by itself. I started to look online and I found all sorts of ideas. However, when I looked at the patterns, it became clear that the chain…
I have to confess that I do not know how to crochet. It always seemed so tricky that I never tried to figure it out. A little bit embarrassing since FunLab sells all sorts of great craft kits for children to learn how to crochet?. But it is never too late to learn! Over the…