Gloucester Scrapstore, a treasure trove of scrappy delights which we raided for a craft table at E's birthday party. Families can pay £7 for an annual membership and fill up a Tesco bag with materials for £5 each time they visit (community groups can fill a trolley for £12). It's a much more creative (not to mention cheaper) way of crafting with kids. E was easily occupied with buckets full of bottle tops while I had a rummage through fabrics and rolls of paper.
If you're short on ideas there's a whole page of downloadable craft leaflets on their website. The Scraptstore is open Tuesdays 10 – 7pm, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10 – 5pm and occasional Saturdays.

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As we are all preparing for the festive season ahead, we thought that we'd round off the year with our 12 Days of Christmas Crafts

Have a Happy Christmas, Pancha Ganapati, Hanukkah, Yule, Kwanzaa, Hogmanay, Malanka, Dongzhi Festival, Newton Mas, Quaid-E-Azam if you celebrate and last but not least, we wish a fabulous 2015!

The Reuseful UK Team

For Christmas, my scrapstore gave to me;

1. Fingerprint Christmas Lights
2. Diary Wreaths
3. Initial Ornaments
4. Sassy Snowmen
5. Toilet Paper Roll Stars
6. Ice Queens
7. Woven Finnish Stars
8. Christmas Tree Garlands
9. Magical Christmas Lanterns
10. Pop-Up Christmas Cards
11. Christmas Stars
12. Christmas Rag Wreaths

When I first started working at Reuseful UK last year it was as a volunteer. Volunteering had always been something I wanted to do. Having a new focus and feeling good about giving something back to the community. I learnt so much in only a matter of days about the secret world of scrapstores and all the amazing work scrapstore members do for their communities.