Heidi's Butterflies
Our newest flutterbud friend Heidi, who is 5 and lives in Portsmouth, sent this drawing of lots of dainty butterflies fluttering around and we all love it! Aren’t they pretty?
Thank you so much Heidi – Butterfly Belle sends you a very special sprinkle of magic dust!
Don’t forget – we love to see your artwork, just email it to us and we’ll feature it here too, just like Heidi’s. We’ll even send you a special colouring-in page to say thank you! xxx
Cupcake Belle's Rainbow Cupcakes
There may not be much sunshine in Bellevue at the moment, but we’re never lacking in rainbows! In fact, to cheer everyone up, Rainbow Belle has been painting beautiful rainbows everywhere!
To thank her friend for making Bellevue a more colourful place, Cupcake Belle got busy in her kitchen at Cupcake Chalet and created these special treats. Aren’t they fluttery lovely? Would you like to make them, too? Here’s how…
Make Cupcake Belle’s Rainbow Cupcakes
Yummy Rainbows
12 vanilla cupcakes (see our recipe)
Buttercream (see our recipe)
Blue food colouring
Rainbow belt sweeties (available in sweet shops and newsagents)
Mini marshmallows
Cupcakes, buttercream, sweeties and marshmallows! It’s a sweet dream come true! Now all you have to do is share them with a friend and brighten up their day. We hope you have fun making Cupcake Belle‘s creation!
Love and magic dust from the Magic Belles in Bellevue xxx
Love Belle Wall Stickers
To celebrate the opening of our lovely new Magic Belles Etsy shop, we’re running a competition for you to win a mini wall makeover for your little one’s bedroom. Yippeee!
The prize includes a gorgeous A4 wall sticker set and a colourful print, and the winner can choose the Magic Belles character of their choice! All you have to do to enter is answer this simple question:
What is the name of Cupcake Belle’s house in Bellevue?
Cute Cupcake Belle Print
To tell us the answer, DM us on Twitter and you can also like us and leave a message with the answer on our Facebook page! Easy! We’ll randomly select a winner from all of our entries.
The competition closes on Monday 21 May at midnight. Good luck everyone! xxx
Pssst… here’s a hint: You’ll find the answer in our Meet the Belles section.
Hello Busy Bumblebee!
There’s a reason that bumblebees are called ‘busy’ – it’s because they’re one of the hardest-working bugs in the garden, collecting nectar and carrying pollen from flower to flower, which helps new flowers and fruits to grow. We need bumblebees so that we can have beautiful gardens – and the more flowers you plant, the more bees you’ll see!
There are lots of different species of bumblebee, but the ones you’ll see in your garden will probably have yellow stripes and fluffy white bottoms – you can find out more about them over at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust!
In the meantime, we thought you might like to hear one of Butterfly Belle’s favourite songs! It’s great for dancing around the garden to, or the living room! We hope you enjoy it! Love and fuzzy, buzzy bumbley cuddles from the Magic Belles in Bellevue xxx
Rainbow Belle's Colourful Activity Apron
We’ve got adorable activity aprons for little gardeners, bakers and artists, personalised prints, colourful wall stickers and gorgeous greetings cards, too – and all because you asked us for it!
We’ve teamed up with some fab people to bring you lovely products, including Chocovenyl, who make wonderful fabric effect wall stickers, and Wild Things Dresses to make our beautiful handmade activity aprons.
Magic Belles Wall Stickers on Etsy!
Lots of love from the Magic Belles in Bellevue xxx
Love Belle‘s pink heart guitar doesn’t just look fab, she can play all kinds of wonderful tunes on it – famous songs that you probably know, happy pop songs and lovely lullabies that’s she made up all by herself.
Can you play a musical instrument? If not, why not get started with a pink heart guitar, just like Love Belle’s? Here’s how to make your own…
Love Belle's Pink Heart Guitar
You need
2 x A4 pink card
Pencil
Milk carton lid
Scissors
Small cereal box (selection pack size)
Three elastic bands
Cardboard tube
Double-sided sticky tape
Sequins – pink and stars
Glitter glue
Now all you have to do is twang your guitar and sing along with Love Belle! Why not visit our Magic Music page and twang along to that? You could also make Love Belle’s fab Paper Plate Tambourine to jingle along with!
We hope you have lots of fun with your pink heart guitar! Lots of love from the Magic Belles in Bellevue. xxx
Star Belle
Ava was following our Wednesday Wonder make from earlier this week. What a wonderful idea, Ava! We just love it!
We think it’s such a fab idea, we’re going to go away and make one for each of the Magic Belles (and our own doors, too!).
Thank you so much – we’re sending some very special magic dust in your direction. Lots of love from the Magic Belles in Bellevue! xxx
Can you spot Love Belle playing her guitar?
In fact, it’s one of our super animated stories, transformed into two pages of colourful fun, where you can fill in the missing words by looking at the pictures (see below)! It’s lovely to read with your little one and we absolutely love it! We hope you do too!
The new issue is out now, so look out for Easy Peazy in your local newsagent and supermarket.
Love and magic dust from the Magic Belles in Bellevue. xxx
A Special Day In Bellevue in Easy Peazy magazine
Sirius - the brightest star!
Did you know that there’s one star in the night sky that’s bigger and brighter than all the others? Can you spot it in the picture here? It’s called Sirius and you can see it sparkling early in the evening, just after the sun sets. Star Belle uses a lot of her magic dust to light this star!
Sirius means ‘glowing’ and, though it looks like one star, there are actually two stars there – Big Sirius A and its little friend Sirius B!
Sirius has a great nickname – the Dog Star – because it’s part of a bigger constellation (remember? We heard about those before!) called Canis Major or the Great Dog. In different parts of the world, Sirius is called the Wolf Star, Dog-Face and Moon Dog!
Would you like to make a magic star painting? It’s so easy – here’s how!
Starry Dusk
Make a Magic Star Painting
You need:
A4 white paper or card
White or yellow wax crayons (white works best)
Black or blue paint, watered down
Fat paintbrush
Smiley Starry Night!
You just lit up the stars, just like Star Belle! Why not do another magic star picture and give your stars smiley, happy faces, like this one we did?
We hope you have lots of fun doing this! Love and magic dust from the Magic Belles! xxx
A Sunny Flower for Mummy!
Keep your fab pictures coming and we’ll put them all up for the world to see! Love and magic dust from the Magic Belles! xxx
