Family Christmas Traditions: Our Christmas Day
Frances, Founder of A Girl For All Time, shares her family's Christmas day traditions.
Frances' Blog
Top Five Last-Minute Christmas Gifts
Our top five last-minute Christmas presents for some gift inspiration. Crafted to inspire a lifetime of play and imagination, all of our dolls and doll costumes are the perfect gift for someone special this Christmas. A Girl For All Time Dolls, Books and Gifts.
Our top five A Girl For All Time stocking fillers
For a little bit of Christmas morning inspiration, we’ve created a list of our top five favourite stocking fillers from our collections.
Family Christmas traditions: English Stir-Up Sunday
This Sunday (24th November) marks one of my favourite Christmas family traditions, Stir-Up Sunday, or Christmas pudding making day! Learn all about this English tradition and how your family can celebrate...
Support small businesses, shop early this Christmas!
As we draw a crazy year to a close make sure to support your favourite small businesses this Christmas by planning your family's gifts early.
A Girl For All Time is celebrating Black History Month!
Learn all about Black History Month, some inspirational black historical figures and why it's important to celebrate them!
Throw a Georgian tea party with your family and A Girl For All Time!
Learn about Georgian traditions and throw a tea party with your family and
International Day of the Girl - giving girls' voices a platform to tell their stories
Celebrate International Day of the Girl with A Girl For All Time
International Day of the Girl is this Sunday (11th) and we can’t wait to celebrate it. Originating from the Fourth World Conference on Women, this day highlights the gender equality struggles faced by girls around the world.
The theme for this year’s campaign launched by UNICEF is ‘My Voice, Our Equal Future’. It focuses on empowering the voices of young girls, providing a platform for them to tell their own stories. Check out Fatoumata and Ide’s stories which highlight the importance of education for all girls. Something we love at A Girl For All Time.
Pink is the official color of UNICEF's International Day of the Girl - so why not hold a pink party to celebrate International Day of the Girl? Wear your favourite pink clothing or try making these easy DIY party streamers. Hang up banners with ‘Day of the Girl’, ‘My Voice’ or ‘Girl Takeover’.
You can even get baking with these super easy strawberry bottom cupcakes.
Ingredients:
- 125g butter (softened)
- 125g caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 125g self-raising flour
- 12 large strawberries
Method:
- Heat oven to 180 C or 356 F.
- Place the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl and stir together.
- Stir in eggs and vanilla extract.
- Gently fold in the flour.
- Cut the stems off the strawberries and place each strawberry at the bottom of each cupcake case.
- Fill the cupcake case ¾ full on top of the strawberries.
- Bake in the oven 12 minutes or until golden on top.
- Top with strawberry buttercream icing- check out this easy recipe.
For more information about International Day of the Girl, the struggles adolescent girls face worldwide and what you can do for help check out UNICEF’s website or these five things you can do to celebrate.
Celebrate the most important member of your family with A Girl For All Time pets!
Learn all about the A Girl For All Time pets, our own family dog, Oreo, and try some animal crafts to recreate your dolls furry friend.
We love pets at A Girl For All Time! Each of our gorgeous dolls has her very own furry friend. These cute companions have seen our girls through everything, from Shakes and Elinor’s scary move to the countryside, to Amelia's and Ophelia’s tea parties and Lydia’s cold winter walks with her horse.
I wanted each character to have her own special friend, just as my own children had growing up with our border collie, Oreo, He loves herding up anything and everything, taking loooong walks, barking at thin air and generally being an adorable nuisance.
We've created a Dog Origami Challenge to try with your family... check out our Instagram for more exclusive Oreo photos this week.
Re-create your favourite pet with our easy origami craft!
Stage 1: Use one sheet of origami paper or trim a sheet of paper to create a square. You can use a small one if you want to create a doll sized origami pet, too!
Stage 2 Fold the sheet in half corner to corner.
Stage 3: Fold down the two corners of the longest edge to make the ears.
Stage 4: Fold the remaining point of the triangle up to make a nose.
Step 5: colour in the upfolded tip of the nose and add the eyes.
Step 6: Get creative!
Try a range of colours or even get some glitter involved if you are feeling creative.
Check out the 'PLAY' section of our website for more crafts, quizzes, learning and fun!
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