The Migrant Women’s Art Group helps women find connection with others adjusting to a new home in Canberra, while also expressing themselves through art.
With the clicking of knitting needles and careful stitches, members of the Canberra knitting and crocheting community create items made with love for people in need around the world.
The precise stroke of a brush, a careful placement of a decal, and checking a photo to ensure the model matches the real thing; the ACT Scale Modellers’ Society (ACTSMS) members are painstakingly dedicated to their craft. This year, they are celebrating 50 years since the society’s first meeting.
Looking for a gift you can handmake for Mum this Mother’s Day? Look no further! CW has found five cute, easy, and sustainable crafts that the kids will love to make themselves. Â
Desperately searching for activities to keep the kids occupied this Easter long weekend? Look no further! We've complied a list of both indoor and outdoor projects, crafts, and self-motivated activities that will keep the kids entertained for hours.
This Easter, we’ve gone for a twist on the classic dyed Easter eggs – using foam and papier mache – thanks to two craft projects from Spotlight! Hang your finished eggs around the home, or decorate a tree outside, to celebrate the Easter season.
Listen up Canberra crafters, eight-year-old Skye has joined the cause to crochet companions for her fellow kids getting the jab and she needs your help.
Skye is the youngest member of Good Omen...
Not sure what to get your loved one for Mother’s Day? Try these three activities from Zoe Gilpin (@thediydecorator) with the kids to give Mum an extra special gift.
DIY Rope Plant Pots
What...
Want to get Mum a gift she will keep forever? Interior stylist and DIY queen, Hayley Little (@mumlittleloves), has the answer with her DIY step by step guide on how to create...
When Tina’s husband passed away earlier this year, she was completely at a loss as to what to do with herself. At the same time her daughter Nikki was studying community development...
Those looking for their DIY and homewares fix from Spotlight will no longer have to head across the border, with the first store based in the ACT set to open its doors on Wednesday 1 July.
You’ve made or found the perfect present, now for the finishing touch – gift wrapping!
Gift wrap gift boxes
Project and image courtesy of Spotlight.
What you’ll need
Assorted Paper Mache gift boxesBurlapHot glue gun and...
Charlotte Barkla, author of Edie’s Experiments: How to Make Friends shares some egg-cellent ideas for science at home this Easter.
Incorporating
science learning at home doesn’t have to be complicated. There are plenty of
activities...
Penguin author, Aura Parker, shares her inspired quarantine Easter craft ideas made from toilet paper rolls:
Wonderful, Easter is here! I
have been good this year and stayed home, so hopefully the Easter Bunny...
