If you haven’t met Baker Ross, please allow me to introduce you: Reader, please meet bakerross.co.uk. It calls itself ‘No1 for inspiration’ and it’s not lying. With ready-prepared craft ranges for every topic under the sun, and new ones being added regularly, plus a vast array of craft materials that made my eyes light up with glee, I feel like a child in a sweet shop every time I visit. Or, if that child is anything like the child I was, a child in a – well – craft shop.
When I wanted great, high-quality crafts that commmunicated the Easter message,* and that families would actually want to keep in their houses, Baker Ross provided me with some great inspiration. Mini stained glass windows that even little ones could do – with the special pens (Yes, no paint!) – and Easter cards with cut out crosses, which even the youngest could make into a ‘giveable’ product.
I wanted to make stones (see below) with the Easter message of ‘Jesus is Alive’ (the stone is rolled away), but I really didn’t want to have to be messing with paint. I had visions of pools of muddied paint all over the floor and parents irritable at rocks that refused to dry before home-time. The solution? Paint pens! That dry in 5 minutes. The glittery ones look particularly nice on my example below.
I realise this may sound a little like an over-enthusiastic advertising campaign (which is partly just me enjoying playing with words), but I really do find this website very helpful and so I want to share it. It is affordable and reliable, and I’ve experienced excellent service. And I promise they’re not paying me.
*Baker Ross is not a Christian website, nor a source of exclusively Christian or church resources. It does however, provide a very good range covering the major Christian festivals, and some other topics that may be relevant to Bible crafts, such as ‘Ancient Egypt’.
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