(a wonderful gift idea), to star-prints and designing your own wrapping paper, the emphasis here is on creativity and fun. With simple step-by-step instructions to each activity, there’s also some seasonal ideas for Hallowe

. Whilst lucky Father Christmas has a workshop full of elves and seemingly unlimited resources with which to adorn the perfect present, busy parents may find using the same roll of wrapping paper for everyone’s gifts to be a wonderfully efficient system

The world famous Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital has long fostered strong connections with Peter Pan author JM Barrie, who gifted the rights of the enchanting childhood tale to the hospital in 1929. Now, the Great Ormond Street Children

stories about your beachcombing discoveries, gifting your child with magical memories of his day at the beach for years to come. More leisure articles from Junior:Swimming with your childDarcey Bussell's tips for budding dancers

packets and made gifts for my family out of gumballs.” There may not be a chocolate river and the only Umpa Loompas I could find were of the candy variety, but the experience you get from Dylan’s is a combination of a skip down the yellow brick road

the wares of local producers and buy unusual gifts in glorious surroundings.July 14Family Forage WalkAs park of Birmingham’s Food Festival families can join in this search for wild foods along the canals of Digbeth. A guide will be on hand to offer advice

festive Stanley as a tree decoration or super-cute gift tag.Adapted from Make Your Own Christmas Decorations by Cath Kidston (Quadrille, £15). To buy at the special price of £11, including p&p, tel 01256 302699 and quote ref 7XG.

print top. Layered underneath a beige cord dress, the detail is intricate and pretty.There is a collection of baby grow gift sets for boy and girl, which are sports themed and in a set of seven. As well as a herd of bold jungle animal prints over baby

. Come Christmas time and a flurry of traditional gift markets descend on European cities. Cologne in Germany offers four big markets – the best one for children is the Alter Markt in front of the Town Hall, where there’s a vintage roundabout, puppet theatre, Santa

children’s again. A lot of young men’s first suit is Paul Smith, and it really pleases me that wearing a Paul Smith suit is giving them that confidence. A young man recently sent me a painting (an homage to the Paul Smith stripe) as a gift. He said he