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This weekend I inherited another child for the weekend, my nephew. J is 10yrs old and finding activities that suit a 5yr old and a 10yr old and keep them both occupied is no mean feat! I fell back on my old friend, the DVD player for help.

Warner Brothers had sent us Polar Express to review and the timing really couldn’t have been better! Tucked up on Sunday morning in PJ’s and dressing gowns, all snuggled up under a duvet, you could have heard a pin drop when Polar Express came on.

polar express 005 — (Click To Enlarge) The boys couldn't take their eyes off the screen!

I hadn’t seen Polar Express before this weekend so wasn’t sure what to expect. What we watched was a magical tale, that did indeed keep the attention of both the 5yr and the 10yrs old (and the 1yr old too for the most part!) with it’s great music, drama and storyline.

I won’t say any more (I wouldn’t want to spoil the story for you!) but needless to say, this is now firmly up there on our favourite Christmas films and I can see it being watched more than once before this festive season is over!.

Thanks Warner Brothers, the boys give this DVD a big…………………..

When Claire from Bottle PR asked for people to do some arty Xmas stuff on fabric I thought “why not?”. I like messy arty stuff, Kieran adores it. A few days later these 3D fabric paints arrived in the post:

HUGE panic, I don’t have an iron, I’ll mess it up, I can’t cope well with anything that contains glitter! After Claire talked me down and reassured me that they didn’t need ironing and would just set in about 4hrs, we got to work.

[slideshow id=11] When I say “we”, I mean Kieran, aka Mr Independent. At 5yrs he was more than capable of designing his own Xmas tshirt and had a fantastic time doing it.

The end result….

It has indeed set overnight and has been great fun. I would say though that avoiding huge blobs is the better idea as otherwise it takes much longer to “set”.

There is plenty left over and we are going to hunt out some more from this range, which is available at John Lewis and Hobbycraft, because there is no end to the projects we can do, festive and otherwise. Kieran wants to get some plain fabric bags to decorate and put some home-made biscuits in for his Aunt’s, another lovely Christmas idea.

Great fun and a new way for Kieran to create, I can see us doing many more projects involving Dylon in the future and look forward to playing with the other items in their art & craft range.

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We will be adding Polar Express to our Christmas favourites!

3D Fabric Paints from Dylon