Category: Things to do and make
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Ocean creatures word scramble
* Can you unscramble the words to find the names of all these creatures who live in the sea? 😀 You could save the puzzle pic, open it in Paint and solve it on your pc. Or you could print it and solve it with a pencil. Or maybe you’d like to download the puzzle…
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Beautiful Birds wordsearch
* Can you find all of these beautiful birds in the wordsearch? 😀 You could save the puzzle pic, open it in Paint and solve it on your pc. Or you could print it and solve it with a pencil. Or maybe you’d like to download the puzzle pdf. The choice is yours 😀 Have…
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Buffy Crossword Puzzle Answers
* So – did you finish the puzzle? Well, just in case you’re a bit stuck – here are the answers: * Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating entertaining vegan-friendly stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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Buffy Crossword Puzzle
* * Can you remember the titles of these great episodes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Go on – have a go! 😀 You could save the puzzle pic, open it in Paint and solve it on your pc. Or you could print it and solve it with a pencil. Or maybe you’d like to…
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Top Vegan Christmas Gifts for Kids #4
* These numbered posts about the top vegan Christmas presents for kids are not in any deliberate order – they are ALL EQUALLY AWESOME! Trees Please is different from most of our other books because it contains no stories or rhymes. It is a picture book, scrapbook, notebook, art journal. A big, beautiful, spiral-bound, art-filled…
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Columbo Word Search Answers
As promised – here is a picture of the finished word search so you can see where the ones you couldn’t find are 😀 * Speaking of the Violet’s Vegan Comics club – our next monthly prize draw for club members is on Wednesday so if you want a chance of winning a fantastic vegan…
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Columbo Word Search
* Finally – another Friday puzzle, even though it’s Saturday! 😀 If you have a fondness for the calm, dog-loving, often underestimated detective Columbo, you’ll like this one 🙂 * Find the episode titles in the word search above – you can save the image and print it, or save ink and paper by solving…
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Cute Vegan Children’s Picture Book with Cake Recipe
* Everyone is excited because it’s Grandpa Wollemi’s birthday but Cedro is a little worried. Kauri and Myrtle have spent days making special presents for Grandpa but Cedro thinks he isn’t very good at making stuff so he doesn’t have anything to give. Luckily he realises just in time that he can make Grandpa a…
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Awesome Plant-Based Colouring Book
* Here is a wonderful educational colouring book: Colour By Nutrients. It is at once a resource for artistic indulgence and an educational tool. Divided into chapters of different vitamins and minerals, the book illustrates which foods contain significant amounts of each. Get yours now! 😀 *** Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating happy, funny and…
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Spiny creatures puzzle answers
Here are the answers to Friday’s crossword puzzle: Download the answers if you want to: * And here are the answers to Friday’s word jumble: Download the answers if you want to: Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating vegan-friendly stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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The Friday Puzzle #5: Spiny creatures crossword puzzle and word jumble
Save the above image and complete it in Paint. Or you could download the PDF below 🙂 * * * * ********* Puzzle created at wordmint.com ********** Here are the answers 😀 *** Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating vegan-friendly stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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The Natural World crossword puzzle answers
And here are the answers to Friday’s crossword puzzle: Download the answers if you want to: * Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating vegan-friendly stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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The Friday Puzzle #4: The Natural World Crossword Puzzle
Save the above image and complete it in Paint. Or you could download the PDF below 🙂 * * ********* Puzzle created at wordmint.com ********** Here are the answers! 😀 *** Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating vegan-friendly stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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Animals who live in the Rainforest wordsearch Answers
And here are the answers to Friday’s wordsearch: Download the answers if you want to: * Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating vegan-friendly stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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The Friday Puzzle #3: Animals who live in the Rainforest wordsearch
Save the above image and complete it in Paint. Or you could download the PDF below 🙂 * * ********* Puzzle created at wordmint.com ********** Enjoy the wordsearch! Here are the answers! 😀 Have a great weekend 😀 *** Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating vegan-friendly stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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Animal-Free Research Crossword Answers
* And here are the answers to Friday’s crossword: This is actually not an exhaustive list of scientifically valid (ie animal-free) methodologies, it’s just that if I’d included anymore it would have made the puzzle really small. I mean, the puzzle would have been bigger in that there would have been more questions and answers,…
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The Friday Puzzle #2: Animal-Free Medical Research Crossword
Save the above image and complete it in Paint, or download the puzzle below 😀 * * Stuck on some of the questions? You can find all the information needed to complete this puzzle on the Safer Medicines site: go to https://safermedicines.org/resources/ and click Frequently Asked Questions 🙂 * * ********* Puzzle created at wordmint.com…
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Wild Flowers Puzzle Answers
Here are the answer’s to last Friday’s puzzle: * * Have a great day! 😀 Violet’s Vegan Comics – making vegan-friendly stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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The Friday Puzzle: Wild Flowers Word Search
* Find the funny-sounding wild flowers in the word search puzzle above. If you click on the picture you can save it and solve it on your computer in Paint. Or you might like to download the pdf below, print it and solve it with a pencil 😀 * Click over to the Wildlife Trust…
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Toy powered with compressed air – not batteries!
* How cool is this! 😀 I can’t wait to try this out – a toy car that you build yourself with a working engine that’s powered by compressed air! No poisonous batteries! * As the manufacturer points out (above) – * Miranda was lucky to stumble across this in a charity shop, and if…
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Vegan Colouring Book Trailer
* Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating fun and happy vegan children’s stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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Grandpa Wollemi’s Birthday – BOOK TRAILER
We haven’t properly published Grandpa Wollemi’s Birthday as it’s actually just a simple vegan cake recipe made into a picture book, but it is available in print from our little shop. Or you can read it here for free 😀 * Violet’s Vegan Comics – making fun, happy, colourful vegan children’s stories since 2012
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Answers at the back!
Here are the answers to yesterday’s People Who Live In The Ocean puzzle as promised: * Have a great weekend! 😀 **** Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating fun stories, poems and things-to-make-and-do since 2012
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Puzzle Week Day 5: People who live in the ocean crossword
First – the answers to yesterday’s science fiction puzzle as promised: * Now, this next one’s a bit trickier. See if you can recognise these ocean-dwellers from their descriptions. Click on the pics and save them so that you can do the puzzle in Paint on your pc, or print out the puzzle and do…
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Puzzle Week Day 4: Megan loves science fiction crossword
If you’ve read the Megan & Flos stories you will know how much Megan loved science fiction even before it became fact for her 😀 so here’s a few questions about her favourite science fiction series – easy, if you know which one it is 😀 You can save the puzzle picture and open it…
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Puzzle Week – Day 3: Chocolate Word Search!
Find all the yummy chocolates in the word search – you can save the image and complete the puzzle on your PC by opening it in Paint, or you can print it and do it the old fashioned way, with a pencil 😀 * Or you can download the pdf version here: * All chocolates…
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Puzzle Week – Day 2: Tree Lovers Wordsearch
Find these tree lovers in the wordsearch! Just like yesterday you can save the puzzle jpg and open it in Paint to complete it on your pc, or print it and solve it with pencil 🙂 * treegrowing.tcv.org.uk/grow * Or you can download the whole thing: * puzzle made (by me 😀 ) at wordmint.com…
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Puzzle Week – Day 1: Dolphins Wordsearch
* Enjoy learning about dolphins and then find the red words in the wordsearch! You can click on the picture above to save it and then open it in Paint to complete it on your pc or print it and do it the old-fashioned way with a pencil 🙂 Alternatively, you can download and/or print…
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Guerrilla Gardening – the beauty of anarchy
Just stumbled across this great article from The Guardian website. It’s very inspiring and uplifting so I had to share it with you because I know you’ll love it too. If you don’t have time to read the whole thing right now (it’s not very long actually), here’s a few quotes from Ellen Miles:
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How to make Mildred and the Girl Scout twins rag dolls!
I followed the pattern from this youtube video: How to sew a doll by hand – YouTube by Root and Stitch. She also has videos of how to make rag dolls with a sewing machine. I chose to cut the legs off the pattern and sew them on separately. * Following the pattern I downloaded…
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Make your own Marvellous Mildred doll
* If you fancy making a vegan comic hero doll, it might help you to know that Miranda adapted a Jean Greenhowe pattern for the Venus doll and a Sue Stratford knitted cat pattern for Marvellous Mildred. Here are some other possibilities: https://springorchidfiles.com/free-knitting-patterns-for-dolls/ and here are some more: https://littlecottonrabbits.typepad.co.uk/knitting-patterns/ *************** Violet’s Vegan Comics – making…
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Violet’s Vegan Comics Top Trumps!
So, one Saturday afternoon, we were playing Star Trek Top Trumps, like you do, and we thought – it would be great to have a Violet’s Vegan Comics Top Trumps game. I’m sure you can guess the rest but I’m going to tell you anyway 😀 We looked online and, lo and behold, found a…
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Join Violet’s Vegan Comics Club!
Want to join Violet’s Vegan Comics Club? Just make one of these cards and then send us a photo of it with your name or your secret alias 😉 and we’ll send you a free vegan comic (while stocks last!) Check it out! 😀
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Crossword Puzzle: Animal Farming is Bad. Well duh!
* Read this article from Greenpeace and this one from Food Revolution Network to find all the answers to the crossword puzzle below: Or you can download and print the whole lot here: For those who don’t want to download it, I’ll show you the answers tomorrow 😀
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Make a Cute Rag Mouse
Here’s how to make an adorable rag mouse like this one: Cut out the main head and body piece for your cloth mouse. I used a rectangle, folded in half. With right sides together, stitch around the edges, leaving one end open for stuffing. Choose a different fabric for your arms and legs. Cut strips…
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Easy Vegan Soda Bread
* I’ve always loved bread but it doesn’t love me, so in recent years I’ve had to avoid it. I feel better if I avoid gluten and yeast most of the time but once in a blue moon I just can’t resist a bit of toast. So I decided to have a go at soda…
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Make your own Megan doll
If you’d like your own Megan doll (from the Megan & Flos vegan science fiction comics), here’s how to make one 😀 First, find a pattern. I used Jean Greenhowe’s “ten of the best” pattern which is from this book but there are plenty of others to choose from, including lots of free ones you can…
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Babs and Cat go to the beach
Here’s Babs – you remember Babs, right? – having a day at the seaside with her friend Cat 😀 And what does every vegan have to do when they visit a sandy beach? Write a message in the sand! 😀 And of course build some sandcastles 😀 What a great day! Enjoy the rest of…
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Make Sage & Onion Roast Potatoes
Pop over to Vegan Family House for this delicious roast potato recipe! I can’t wait to try it. I’ve done something similar with poppy seeds and soy sauce, which was amazing, but that was potato wedges. I love potatoes! ❤ So what are you waiting for? Get over to Vegan Family House and make yourself…
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Happy Birthday Violet’s Vegan Comics!
It’s eight years ago today that Violet’s Vegan e-Comics set up camp at WordPress! So Happy Birthday us! Long may we continue! 😀 Have a slice of birthday cake ❤ Mm mmmmm – doesn’t that look amazing? Well I can’t take credit for it, I found it at Vegan Dollhouse! There are tons of amazing…
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Sunday. London. Be The Future Vegan Market. Be there!
The Be The Future market is back! Full of stalls selling exclusively vegan products – eg toiletries, make up, clothes, chocolates, food and drink, and of course VEGAN CHILDREN’S BOOKS! The prices of our books range from £2.50 to £10 but they’re free to book fairies! 😀 So come on, spend Sunday with lots of…
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Plastic-Free Cake
You know how frustrating it is when you’re doing your best to avoid plastic but even the glass bottle of organic vegetable oil has a plastic insert, plastic lid and sometimes even a plastic neck-sleeve? Well, after spending half an hour trying to cut off this evil neck sleeve the other day I decided,…
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Be The Future Vegan Market – This Weekend!
If you’re gonna be anywhere near London this weekend why not pop in to the Be The Future Vegan Market in Stoke Newington? There’s going to be lots of stalls including Food, Drinks, Skincare, Crafts, Clothing, Plants, Candles, Scents, Ceramics, Soaps, Illustrations, Kids’ books, – that’s us! 😀 (Sunday only) – Kids’ Clothes, Jewellery, Herbs,…
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Protein Crossword Answers
Here are the answers to yesterday’s puzzle 😀 ********************************************** vegan, nutrition, plant-based, plant food, vegetables, protein, puzzle, crossword, vegetarian, things to make and do,
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Vegan Crossword Puzzle: Stuff With Protein In
Click on the puzzle for a pdf you can download and print or ‘print screen’ and paste into Paint so you don’t have to print it 😀 Stuff_with_protein_in The answers are here 😀 ********************** Created at wordmint.com vegan, nutrition, plant-based, plant food, vegetables, protein, puzzle, crossword, vegetarian, things to make and do,
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Bridlington Vegan Festival
Don’t forget – this Sunday is the Bridlington Vegan Festival – their first ever! There’ll be delicious vegan food, live music, speakers, yoga, holistic therapies, cookery demonstrations, local vegan crafts, children’s entertainment and activities, and stalls full of ethical, eco-friendly, vegan products for sale, ie clothing, cosmetics, toiletries, food, household items and books – including…
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A lovely time was had by all
HART’s inaugural vegan potluck event on Hornby Island was a roaring success – not surprising when you look at the feast that all the attendees put together 😀 Everybody kindly wrote a list of ingredients to put with their contribution so that food intolerances could be avoided, although it was all vegan of course 🙂…
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Easy Gluten-Free Flatbread
This is so easy and absolutely delicious 😀 No fat, no yeast, no gluten and no frying. Just oats and water. Baked. You’ll need: 8 oz rolled oats 400 ml of water parchment paper to line your baking trays so that you don’t need to oil them. ** For garlic bread version see bottom of…
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