McCain Smiles – Free Crayola Goodies and Competition
Like lots of monsters across the UK the little man loves to get crafty and regularly transforms my dining room table into a an artistic masterpiece- well I think it’s a masterpiece anyway but others may call it a great big arty mess!
With the cold, wet weather firmly setting in the little monkey seems to have made his way through so much crafty stuff it’s unreal so I am delighted to see that McCains Smiles, one of monsters favourite savoury tea time treats, has teamed up with crafty giants Crayola to giveaway a whole heap of fab Crayola goodies to Uk residents
McCains are aiming to actively encourage monsters to show their true creative streaks by offering 6 fab items including; colouring pencils, mini markers, washable pens, 2 different colouring and sticker books as well as 8 giant washable crayons to get those creative juices flowing and all you have to do to claim your free Crayola goodies is to purchase two promotional packs of McCain Smiles (either 454g or 600g) and fish out the little plastic pack which features a unique code.
Then simply log on to www.mccain.co.uk/smilescrayola pop in your codes and select the item/s you would like to receive before filling in your delivery details and here’s the best bit postage is absolutely free too so it won’t cost you a penny.
If that’s not enough then you can even print off a whole load of colouring-in designs and templates to keep your Monster entertained from the ‘Fun Stuff’ section of the website- I love a good freebie!
Due to monsters love of the potato based McCains smiles we have already claimed two different Crayola items and are eagerly awaiting their arrival so we can carry on getting crafty.
Fancy Winning Some Crayola Goodies?
Thanks to the lovely people at both McCains and Crayola I have one set of 6 Crayola items (they may differ from the items pictured) to give away to one of you lucky lot.
To be in with the chance of winning all you have to do it complete the Rafflecopter form below and don’t forget to leave me a comment telling me what your monsters favourite crafty activity is.
Good Luck
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Cards and posters, no matter what the occasion, you can guarantee my girls will make a card for it, or a poster lol
my son is autistic, so any craft activity is a massive bonus to us all as he does not like to get messy or have good attention span, but has started to explore paint more recently, so hope this grows and expands
Just pen and paper! They are happy with anything given.
Glitter!!! All mine love to do anything with glitter, especially pop up cards x
My girls are into making princess crowns, bracelets etc at the mo with lots of glitter! Ahhhh! My boys have been making paper planes to annoy me with!
Painting and sticking and creating cards- no reason for the cards just like doing them.
My little monsters like anything to do with cutting and glueing!!! x
my son loves colouring, especially if its with the pen im trying to write with.
My boys never used to particularly be into colouring and drawing but lately they decide to make their own comics which I think is a fab idea as it encourages their imagination and creativity as well as having fun colouring and drawing. They get through so many felt pens though so I will be looking out for the Mccain / crayola offers!
My son is just really into drawing at the moment, just bought him a folder to store his masterpieces! But other than that they both love glueing or painting
my daughter loves anything that can make a mess, but her favorite would be painting. x
my lil girl loves everything crafty!! she does lots of colouring at the mo! but loves saltdough and hama beads too
Painting x
Colouring in the walls usually!
Mine love making paper aeroplanes, they spend ages colouring them in, painting or stickering them. Fun lasts longer as they get to fly them at the end. xx
Making postcards (thank you cards or greetings cards)
@Dorothee77
Play-doh and using aquadoodle mat so he doesn’t make much mess.
My son loves to draw…so we make good use of this by getting him to draw colourful pictures on some card…and we use them as greeting cards for the family on special occasion…he’s only 2 haha so they turn out very colourful sometimes
x
sticking and glueing all the time, night and day, they just love it xx
Cutting and sticking!
gluing and sticking
Anything that usually involves glue and glitter…..grrrrrr LOL!
Making roads out of paper
painting (anything he can then paint including Mummy is fair game lol my lovely nearly 3 year old)
My 2 year old would colour and draw for hours. Stickers are also a firm favourite.
Gluing and glittering!
Georgie adores anything with glue & has recently discovered the wonder of stickers too!
At Nursery – painting
At Home – Playdoh
Result – mess in both locations but one happy daughter!
Making Play-Doh dinosaurs
Sorry please can you publish this one not the last one! My little one likes gluing and glittering!
making people out of pipe cleaners
my daughter loves painting and my son loves play dough!
My girls get through reams and reams of paper drawing fabulous artwork. They are pretty creative. My problem is where to put it all!
finger painting , and making our own stampers with potatoes
My daughter loves to colour with all different types of felt tips, glitter pens and crayons.
Drawing and Stickers
My 2 year old daughter LOVES stickers and drawing pictures, keeps her busy for aggggges
Daughter is really into Play Doh at the moment. <3
My monster loves cutting pictures out of magazines and sticking them in a folder to make his own story.
My little girl loves to make puppets using wooden lollypop sticks and sticking her own creations onto them. She then puts on a little show for the rest of the family
making cards
potato printing at the moment
We love cross stitch!
Anything involving stickers
My son loves using his crayons… it used to be all on the walls..but now he loves his colouring books, and especially looks out for ducks to colour in
Stickers and drawing are big hits here at the moment!
Both my Daughters love painting, the messier the better
Making cards
he loves anything that involves scissors he has some child safety scissors dont seem to stop him cutting everything into little bits though lol xx
My cheeky monsters favourite activity is cutting and gluing, whether that be autumn leaves, cut out paper or glittery stars, it keeps her entertained for hours
My daughter loves to make giant posters and she recently made her nanny a giant poster of a garden because she is a keen gardener! it had lots of texture and clever 3D bits on in and was huge!
My little ones love colouring, and anything whci involves sticking- shapes, paper, stickers- messy, but keeps them quiet for ages!
fingerpainting
Love scrapbooking. My daughter and me are doing one with piccies from christmas
finger painting
anything involving mess and glitter
My daughter LOVES craft activities, washable felt tips are a winner in our house! She draws pictures for Nanny & Grandad and loves practicing writing her name in different places around the house
my son loves hands and feet paintings very messy but loads of fun
Making paper planes and drawing designs on the side.
My little girl loves cutting up paper and card and decorating with glitter glue.
My son loves to collect things when we go out walking, take them home and decorate. All sorts of things, bark from trees, leaves that have fell, sticks, you name it he some how manages to find some way to decorate it, I just have the problem of what to do with them afterwards!
anything involving glue and glitter
my son loves colouring
They love making Pom-poms and turning them into fluffy bugs with googley eyes.
We now have a whole family of them
My eldest adores any form of drawing, she is absolutely obsessed!
Painting
xxx
Playdoh is one of the few activities that all 3 of mine will sit and do altogether – each working at their own ability level and making each other giggle with their creations.
Drawing with crayons. We got my daughter a Crayola Art Carry Case for Christmas and she has used it every day.
He likes making spaceships and rockets out of old bottles, loo roll etc!
my son just likes drawing mainly smiley faces x
Sticking! anything that glue will hold has been stuck, especially keen if they can get their hands on the glitter.
My little girl loves painting & making patterns with stamps.
my twins love colouring.x
my children love anything arty Grace loves to paint but Daniel wants to be an artist when he grows up and loves to draw cartoons mainly he did a great watercolour that went onto the front of a card they gave to the queen when she visited his school for the jubilee they are happy with anything arty as long as it means they can create something.
drawing animals
Card making, and she’s only 2 years old
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My monsters have just discovered air drying clay, and now everyone that visits get a created model of some sort that they paint when dry, fantastic stuff
crayoning
Painting
My favourite craft activity is making masks.
my kids would love these
colouring with felt tips!
Using glue to make pasta pictures then painting them
Colouring and modelling with anything she can get her hands on.
Finger Painting!
Painting
The messier the better!! We made hand print cards for Christmas – that was our first real craft project together. It was lopts of fun and very messy! xx
We record a lot of Mister Makers for inspirations. Our last creations were puppets
Colouring
colouring books and making things blue peter style.
making people out of pipe cleaners
Anything that involves scissors and glue
cutting and sticking, loves to cut up from old magazines and catalogues and glue them into a giant messy poster
Drawing!
Max has recently discovered stickers
drawing for both my 5 yr old and 2 yr old but my 5 yr old also loves cutting and sticking! x
making cards
loves making rocket ships out of any material!
My daughter really loves dot to dot and spot the difference but keeps calling them spot the dot :/
my four year old is fascinated with drawing shoes at the moment!!!!!! My six year olds latest thing is making height charts!!! everywhere I look there are pieces of paper stuck to the walls in order to measure herself!!
Card Making
decorating any card board box.
Making stories with picture cards, we make our own picture cards and build stories around them.
My little one loves stickers so anything involving those! She recently made a postbox using an old cereal box and used stickers as stamps on her ‘letters’.
My favourite craft is card making
sticking and glueing
Dex is only 8 months so at the moment it’s handprinting with paints x
My kids love anything that involves paint and glitter! I love the non mess Colour Wonder products, as do the kids fortunately!
my little boy loves painting
My kids like making cakes and making things out of kits, like felt animals, that sort of thing.
Anything that involves paper and lots of messy glue and paint!
anything with paint and glitter
creating cards – my daughter makes cards every day!
At the weekends my children love to make something out of our left over boxes, cardboard tubes, lids etc, they love making something out of recycled items. Recycled art and crafts
Both my kids love to draw – but my daughter especially likes all the messy activities like gluing and painting!
Colouring in and anything that involves sticking!
colouring in & cutting up paper
Painting is always the best
Painting! especially finger painting the mucky pup.
recently they made snw globes which they loved, my daughter is really crafty always drawing and colouring. sometimes lil bro will join in but more often than not its more her
she wants to be a ‘maker’ when she grows up and just loves making anything she can out of anything she can get her hands on.
Cutting shapes, colouring and glueing.
Anything that uses glue and glitter – most mess, least effort!
Cards and stickers
Sticking and cutting
Any thing that includes cutting and and glitter and I,m left to clean up the glitter all over the floor
Painting
stick and gluing
Anything involving colouring – painting, drawing, sticking bright stickers on everything!
Stamping with inkpads and different stampers
painting
Definately painting
card making
making birthday cards for family and friends love drawing,colouring and giltter all over
cutting things out of papers (doesn’t matter if you’re reading it at the time!!)
Things that involve glue and sequins.
Writing stories! She has an amazing imagination so loves to write funny stories down.
well..apart from getting messy ……he loves to draw…….we could sell his ‘abstract’ work for a fortune….l wish
My 5 all love anything to do with glitter, fun but it gets absolutely everywhere
Sticking and stamping
scribbling with crayons
Making their own cards – drawing and stickers
Painting
Glueing and painting!
Glueing, cutting and colouring and enjoy making things for family members
My daughter adores painting!
Simple pen and paper – imagination is endless!
He likes colouring in pictures!
Its got to be making cards
Anything that involves glue and googly eyes!
Cutting and sticking.
At the minute the mouse loves colouring (especially when she manages to stay in the lines) and monkey loves to write, just words in all different colours!
However we did do cutting and sticking with the argos catalogue this week to make robots and they both thought that was awesome – possible new favourite!!
Anything that upcycles old bits of rubbish with paint sticky tape and glitter!
DD loves potato printing
Painting and sticking, especially when it involves glitter!
Gluing and model making , yogurt pots , egg boxes and cereal boxes and they make wonderful creations
My daughter loves to stick , anything gets stuck on, especially glitter and lots of it !
My little monster loves drawing and cutting out.
bright coloured paper shapes with the bit you lick to stick he loves making pictures with that and we stick them on the fridge
making a mess, be it drawing on the floor or walls, plastacine in the carpets or glue n glitter on the table, but she has fun so its worth the effort!!
painting and sparkles
playdoh and sticking!!
Colouring and making cards
sticking glitter and sequins on card
My little monsters favourite crafty activity is anything that involves glue and shiny things like glitter and sequins.
felt-tips, sticking and painting
Drawing, she does it all the time!!
My kids love painting!
we love doing paper mache, then decorating our favourite is the balloons and then popping them my kids love it.
We tend to do crafts based on the season, occasion or upcoming event. The kids particularly enjoy making things from egg boxes though x
building a house out of boxs
Playdoh Figures of Mummy & Daddy
painting and coloring
Colouring in
Painting
My grandsom loves colouring pens
finger painting
decorating things with glue and sequins
cutting old magazines/catalogues up and sticking their fave pics on paper x
My little girl loves painting!
Anything bright , sparkly and colourful. Just love my kids creativity x
playdoh! love it, can do so much with it
My children love painting, so I buy old rolls of wallpaper from the DIY store, they are usually textured and are great value for money. Then I line the table and let them print/paint/splodge away!!
My two boys love getting messy with paints!
Thankyou for the fab giveaway!
This will keep my children busy for a good long while – which saves them destroying the house
Anything involving paint!
Making cards.
My girls love making anything crafty – I make my own, that way I don’t become too controlling over how theirs looks!
Anything to write/draw with and anything to write/draw on – TV book, paper, dog (very tolerant curly-coated retriever) etc etc. No walls yet thank god. Good luck to everyone
x
My son loves colouring. He loves to toddle over to the shelf and reach down his paper and crayons and sometimes mummy joins in too (ssshhhhhhh)
Gluing and sticking with shapes, glitter feathers you name it it’s usually on there!
My daughter is sticker crazy ! She has a sticker maker, Sticker Activity books and a set of 1000 stickers- and loves to play with them every weekend !
My little boy loves making collages
our 2 year old loves colouring and sticking xx
My girls love anything to do with colouring and glitter!
Painting
My 3 year old loves anything craft related- any excuse to make a mess! x
Painting
My niece would love it if I won this, she never stops drawing.
making ships out of cardboard boxes
painting stones and rocks
monster masks
drawing pictures and colouring them in.
making/playing with salt dough and papier mache
painting on the wall
my son loves to design posters and draw maps
Cards for friends birthdays
Sticky pictures xx
My daughter loves to draw – anything and everything
making birthday cards for the family
Lara loves sticking most!
the honest answer is anything! Painting, drawing, colouring, activity books even decorating cookies! Think we have a star in the making!
what an awesome prize
This should keep um quiet for 2 minutes!
My daughter loves stickers and stampers
Definitely drawing and painting – the messier the better
@caro_mad
He loves painting.
My little girl loves to scribble across the long roll of paper I tape to her highchair
Making cards!
Making little cards
we love junk modelling – amazing what you can make with cardboard boxes and tubes !
Does making as big a mess as possible count? If not it has to be painting.
Whatever makes the most mess seemingly!
Mine love play dough.
Twistables. No more sharpening pencils!
We love making animals and monsters out of pipe cleaners. It’s an oldie but a goldie, and really almost mess free!
Cool prize – will keep the kids quiet for a while
My granddaughter, who is 17 months just loves scribbling anything on paper with a crayon, but mummy has got a craft box, with allsorts of card, paper, stickers etc, which babes loves delving into. They make cards and do painting, hand prints, everything and she really loves it.
She likes to draw clothing designs she would like to wear. She is only 6!!!!
Loves painting and colouring in
Hand prints and footprints with pait!!
daughter loves her painting and sticking things together
My daughter loves making cards for her friends, lots of cutting and gluing involved, she loves it
Colouring in
PAINTING
painting
Finger painting
Baking
Making birthday cards – the kids can put as much effort into each one as they feel at the time
My little boy likes scribbling, we are working on lots of crafting to see what he likes.
Making things from cardboard boxes and empty food packets x
anything with paint, very messy but good fun
Anything that involves scissors and colouring!
Anything arts and crafts – keeps them quiet for ages
Anything that gets their fingers sticky, and their hair, their clothes, their face and my kitchen floor!
Making cards, she wakes up early and will happily keep herself occupied making cards for people.
he loves to paint, keeps him quiet for hours x
Colouring with crayons or sticking stickers
My 3 year old loves ‘making things’ out of cardboard boxes etc. This week we made a fire engine out of a huge box. We both had great fun!
Collages with bits from walks or in the garden ! x
We love drawing and colouring and making birthday cards.
Drawing cars and bikes.
All things messy!
My little monsters love making cardboard hats – favourite so far are the ones we made that were meant to look like train drivers hats but we look like the French police from the Pink Panther cartoons which is even better!
A good bit of messy painting!
Origami at the moment.
My little girl loves finger painting, i think it’s because of how messy she gets!
Painting :}
anything that requires glitter, glue, sequins, various cut out shapes and generally making lots and lots of mess lol
Me and my little boy enjoy making castles out of toilet roll tubes and decorating them with pens, crayons, paints. glitter, stickers etc
We actually love making sock puppets!
My girl loves making sparkly butterflies!
Make your own scratch cards – colour paper with wax crayons, cover with thick poster paint, dry and scrape, Great for fireworks pictures
any type of drawing, painting or sticking
anything that involves gluing, cutting, painting and empty boxes!!!
Making collages
The messiest things are the best – the brighter the better!
My 2 year old grandson would love these, he is happiest colouring things be it on paper, books, walls & even one of the radiators has a colourful hue to it!
My youngest is obsessed with stickers at the minute and my daughter likes anything glittery and beads, everywhere I look are beads!
sticking things and covering everything in a layer of glitter, my house shines so much from glitter sometimes i wonder why i bother with lights!!
I best enjoy making cards and placemats with my Grandchildren. They enjoy anything crafty.
Modelling with papier mache
Flower pressing
Scribbling!
anything that involves getting paint everywhere!
Me & my little one love to make cards
Cutting and sticking
cutting and sticking
Things that use his hands and feet. At christmas we pressed his hands into salt dough then baked them and painted them to look like santa’s and hung them on the tree. We also painted his feet green and made cards using his footprints in the shape of christmas trees.
Cutting and sticking!
My daughter loves anything that involves plenty of glue so she is in to papier mache at the moment!
colouring
having a bath with her water crayons
My little one loves to draw. I reckon she will be a great little artist.
My daughter loves painting, along with all other messy things.
my 5 year old loves most crafts , but this weekend we did lots of junk modelling : )
Finger painting – or anything that creates mess lol
painting
Me and my daughter love painting
painting with water colours
Now my son has learnt how to use a pair of scissors he just loves cutting. He’s left-handed so finds it a bit tricky, but still could sit there cutting for ages.
cutting out shapes
painting
Gluing and sticking – anything and everything!!
My son would love this! He’s only beginning to show an interest in creative activities and id love to encourage this! x
at the moment his favorite activity is colouring walls in his room
We love decorating boxes to put pens in
everyone we know must have one by now
My little menace of a monster is into everything!
He is two in under 4 weeks.
He Loves painting, for instance today he got blue paint all over mummy, the washing machine and our doggy!
We have time every day for colouring. He has a art case and carrys it around, and a colouring book starting from A going all the way to Z Which we learn and colour in at the same time!
He also LOVES his sticker books. And i actually sent off for the crayola animal funny faces. which we both had fun doing! We even tared some out of the book and sent them to family and friends.
xxx
He loves cutting up!!
Painting himself
Colouring in I think, or painting
Glitter & glue- the messier the better!