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Make This: Woodland Wreath

Making your own wreath from branches and twigs you found on a walk is thrifty, satisfying and will help to boost your feel-good neurotransmitters by getting you outside and channelling your creativity says Emma Mitchel

Five Free Things To Do With Your Family This Weekend

Enjoy lights and optimism! Make your own Dolly Parton tree toppers! Create candles and cactus planters! Plus save rare species and enjoy free classical music with your children

Make Your Own Hot Water Bottle Cover

This #ThrowbackThursday we're sharing a simple sewing craft. Do you take a hot water bottle to bed on freezing winter nights? If you do, why not make a soft, cozy felt cover for it suggests Joan Gorman

Make Your Own Advent Calendar

Want to do something different this year for advent? Here's an alternative calendar that gives back this Christmas from Libby Abadee and Cath Armstrong. We give you the Kindness Advent Calendar!

Make Kinetic Art

This #ThrowbackThursday and #TreeWeek we've a simple leaf mobile to craft at home. Here, Joan Gorman uses colourful fabrics and natural objects to make a beautiful autumnal mobile...

Make manners fun this Christmas with Uh Oh Milo! Win a personalised The Excited Elf book and gifts

The Uh Oh Milo! picture book series by Kate Wogan, sees Milo, Mary and their magical Granny meet a series of cheeky mischief makers as they learn about good manners on their adventures.

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Perfect for anyone with an interest in nutrition and its impact on health and wellbeing, Optimum Nutrition is created by the Institute for Optimum Nutrition – experts in nutrition for over 35 years.

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Win a Year’s Supply of Bamboo Toothbrushes for you & your little one

Brushbox are the award winning Eco-Friendly Oral Care brand helping you & your family Save the Planet, Twice a Day and reduce your unnecessary plastic-impact...

Our new issue is out, and it’s a cracker!

The latest edition of The Green Parent is perfect fireside reading and guaranteed to give you a bit of a lift...

Make Your Own: Nature Table

Making display shelves for collections is easy to do and makes the perfect nature table addition. Joan Gorman shows us how...

Make These Cool Storage Jars

These felt toadstool tops turn jars into cute containers for storage or vessels for displaying collections; fill them with chocolate truffles or homemade fudge and they also make sweet gift packaging... says Joan Gorman