Crafts and Costumes

How are your plans for this Carnival? Do you already have everything ready? In our proposals for this upcoming party we bring you eleven story costumes for children, a tribute to the classics (and not so classic) and children's books that make them dream so much and thanks to those who will feel protagonists of Your own stories.

Holidays are coming, laughs and costumes, many costumes. In Babies and more we are giving you ideas today in our section "Hunting Gangas" we bring you some offers of Carnival accessories, to add to your costume or not to complicate us and simply live the party with that special detail that takes us out of the routine and we It gives a fun touch.

Does Carnival arrive and you still haven't thought about what you are going to transform? Today we bring you eleven costume ideas for the whole family, with which to have a fun time together, without depriving dad and mom of living the Carnival from within, of becoming Don Carnal before Mrs. Cuaresma arrives.

We continue with our series of costume ideas for the next Carnival Tuesday and this time it's the turn of the pregnant women. And if this is your case and you were thinking of buying a tunic and go disguised as a Dominican friar, wait a bit and look at the ideas that we are going to give you. We present 15 ideas of costumes for pregnant women.

Soon the carnivals will arrive and it is clear that this year, at least for now, it is covered by the galactic theme and it is not that astronomy has now become fashionable, but that whatever it is that you are looking for to wear you will find Something related to Star Wars, whether of Jedi, trooper, Yoda, or R2D2, spacecraft or wokie, the world has decided that this year you will wear one of those costumes, or at least they will try hard.

Yesterday we brought you some DIY costumes for children of Star Wars, which will undoubtedly be the star theme this Carnival, but not the only one. Frozen characters and Disney princesses are also favorites of the little ones, so we bring you eleven DIY costumes for kids that you can do at home.

We have just left Christmas and, when we are all settling in the routines again, we learn that Carnival is already here, just around the corner, and that we have to think about how to make or get the costumes of our children. In Babies and more we have decided to help you out, so today we offer you eleven DIY costumes for children, from Star Wars, the movie of the moment.

Carnival is approaching and we are already beginning to think about how to disguise the little ones so that they go very cute and above all, so that they have a great time. In our Hunting Gangas this week we have looked for the best prices to disguise children for less than 30 euros. It is indisputable that the theme of the year will be Star Wars, although the characters of Frozen and for the little ones, the Paw Patrol, are still stomping.

Her name is Roey and she is one of the last people who have become known on the network, with photos that have more than 56,000 likes on Twitter and more than 42,000 retweets, all thanks to a makeup with which people do not know if She is an old girl painted as a girl or a girl painted as an old woman. A little 3-year-old girl Actually she is a 3-year-old girl named Monroe, whom everyone knows as Roey, who was made up by her aunt Samantha Parsons, 18, one day who took care of her.

Tomorrow begins the countdown to Christmas, a countdown that makes waiting for the little ones even sweeter. They are days of illusion, to decorate with Christmas decorations and a precious detail to have at this time of year is an advent calendar. It is a very beautiful custom extended throughout almost Europe that consists of a calendar in the form of counting to know the days remaining for the arrival of Christmas, from December 1 until Christmas Eve.

Your child's first birthday. You put a birthday party in which the child barely finds out, you plant a cake in front of him that has no idea what it is, you put a candle on and off quickly after the photo so that it does not burn and you let him put your hands in the cake, eat, stain, while everyone laughs at the scene and the child ends up full of cake and cream.

Ima Moteki a couple of Japanese designers have created nameless paintings to change the way children learn colors. Instead of bearing the written name or a strip with the color that these paintings contain, they come in white tubes with an equation of the primary colors that make up the color of the paint that is inside the tube.

A few months ago they were the bracelets made with colored rubber bands and now a new fashion attracts the little avid to demonstrate their expertise in crafts: the "pixel art" figures with multicolored plastic beads that are assembled in a thousand different combinations. It is actually known as "pixel art" a form of digital creation, but here we move away from the computer and make a craft with children from four years (eye with small parts) that helps children develop their motor skills and hands-eye coordination, as well as their ability to concentrate and their creativity.

Next Sunday, Mother's Day is celebrated in Spain (and in other countries). A very special day to honor mom, pamper her and tell her how wonderful she is. What better than to accompany the kisses and hugs with a detail made by the kids? For us there is no gift more precious than those made by our children with their own hands putting all their love there.

Many children are already on vacation and holidays are also coming, so it is a good excuse to make crafts. Today we bring you an ideal proposal for these dates: Easter eggs made with paper mache, full of surprises. And it is that inside we can fill it with chocolates, nightmares, all kinds of sweets and various surprises.

As always as these dates approach, we show you a beautiful craft to do with the children. Today's proposal is some beautiful Easter eggs made with thread, a project that the little ones will love and that is beautiful to decorate the house those days. They are made using the same technique that is used to make paper mache.

If your child is a fan of the Ninja Turtles here we leave you a free pattern so you can create your own dolls. If between work, going out to look for children in school and the rest of the day-to-day things, you still have time here you have a DIY, or in Spanish, do it yourself, the Crochet Ninja Turtles.

First of all I just want to warn you that I am not going to give a photographic restoration class, at least, not in the sense that people understand by "restoring a photograph". I mean rather what they have done Luzia and Curdin Virchow or rather what they have let their children do that has not been anything other than allowing them to modify old photographs of the family as they see it now and the result has been a set of images that perfectly reflect the worldview of their children.

Today everyone talks about the Oscars. Of the winners, the big losers, the best and the worst dressed on the red carpet, and of course, also the actor Neil Patrick Harris, who has premiered this year as the presenter of the most anticipated gala. But we are not going to talk about the moment "underpants moment" that has been marked in homage to the winning movie "Birdman", but a more intimate and less known facet that is the one that shows with these fantastic costumes of Neil Patrick Harris and his family .

Looking ahead to the Carnival parties that are already approaching and that children enjoy so much, we propose a very fun DIY project that you can do at home with your little ones, beautiful masks that will serve as a starting point for any costume. They are masks with bird motifs made with a material that we all have at home or we can easily get: a cardboard egg cup.