With the weather oscillating between spring like and dead of winter we’ve been forced to make some tough decisions lately.

For instance if staying in the house on a cold snow-less wintry sort of day do we want to:

A: Make horses talk all day.

B: Come up with other kid friendly projects and crafts to do.

It’s a tough choice, my feelings on talking horses can be found here, but cute craftiness is not one of my strong suits.

Desperate to avoid talking animals, I headed for the internet. I may not be crafty but I can Google with the best of them! I found The Toymaker‘s website a few years ago, a few clicks we had piles of paper toys and crafts at our fingertips. With a computer and a printer even a crafting deficient Mom such as myself can pull off an afternoon of fun!

These wind boats were the biggest hit, even Clara could blow hers across the floor. The Toymaker has moving toys, paper dolls, cards, finger puppets, 3D animals, trucks and marble mice, it’s worth a visit on a nasty spring day.

Unless you like making animals talk, and if that’s the case can Ivy come visit next time it rains?