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Our poster boy now loves painting pictures. He has graduated from colour pencils and crayons and is now loving water paints.

I’ve done this video of him painting an elephant. Enjoy

Feeling a little Oink Oink today so we will be making a paper plate pig!

Paper plate pig

You’ll need a paper plate, two cups from the egg carton and a ring cut out of toilet paper roll

Paste a piece of paper on one side of the toilet paper roll ring and cut out the excess

Glue the egg carton and toilet paper roll ring onto the paper plate. Let dry.

Paint the entire surface pink

Leave it to dry

Paste eyes and nose. I used hole punch and punch out black construction paper for the nose.

Your pig is done Oink Oink!

It has been sometime since we last did an egg carton craft. Today, let’s make an elephant!

Egg Carton Elephant

You’ll need a head with huge ears and a body with legs.

Cut them out

Paint it whatever colour you like

Paint the ears and eyes and your elephant is done

 

Finas of My Learning World did this cute paper plate chick

She painted 3 paper plates (of different sizes) yellow.

Glue the small plate to the bigger plate.

Cut the beak, wings and feet from the remaining paper plate and glue.

Shred tissue paper and paste as the feathers.

Paste eyes and cottons and there you have it, a cute paper plate chick

Thank you My Learning World for sharing this simple craft with us

When I do grocery shopping, I often get bowls as free gifts for some of my purchases. Today, I feel like doing something to beautify the bowl and make it the center of attraction

All we need is the bowl and a bear. I use the bear I got from being a loyal member of a supermarket chain

Glue the hands and feet to the bowl. Tie a golden ribbon around the neck and your guest will never know that the bowl and bear are made up of cheap stuff

Chinese New Year will be celebrated on the 3rd February 2011, just a couple of days away

We are getting really excited and let’s have a look at the kids making rabbit art to usher the New Year of Rabbit!

A couple of rabbits to usher the New Year of Rabbit

Look for a rabbit, preferably from your Chinese New Year greeting cards or any where and cut it out.

We got ours from Craft Haven.

Draw the outline on a drawing block

Cut out the rabbit.

Place the rabbit template onto another drawing block. Secure with masking tape.

Paint the insides of the template

Repeat on the other side or as many times according to how many rabbits you wish to have

Let dry and your rabbits are done.

You may want to finger print some cherry blossoms too.

Nice?

We hung the rabbit art up at our car porch together with the lanterns

Gong Xi Fa Chai to you and family

Here are the list of Chinese New Year crafts we have done:
1) Red packet ancient coin lantern

2) Red packet ball lantern

3) Ang Pao Goldfish

4) Red Packet Star Lantern

5) Toilet paper roll rabbit

6) Toilet paper roll orange

7) Chinese Paper Cut – SPRING

’8) Fingerprint Cherry Blossoms

9) Ang Pao Toilet Paper Roll Cracker

10) Red Packet Sea Shell Ornament

11) Red Packet Fish Lantern

12) Red Packet Fan Ornament

13) Red Packet Fish Ornament

14) Fortune Cookie Fridge Magnet

Mek…. Mek…. My first time attempting a goat craft

Toilet roll goat

Paint a toilet roll brown

Use cotton as the beard and foam and felt for the rest.

Mek Mek is done. I’d prefer the ears to be slimmer and eyes not too big though

Oh Mac Donald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O,

And on his farm he has some chickens,

E-I-E-I-O,

With the cluck, cluck here, cluck, cluck there…

Alright, let’s just get to business

Hand and footprint Chicken

Trace your footprint on a piece of yellow paper

Trace your handprint on orange and red paper

Paste the footprint onto the handprints

Add eyes, beak and all and your chicken is done

To usher the New Year of the Rabbit, let’s make a cute rabbit today

Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit

Cut three rings out of a toilet paper roll

Glue two rings together

Glue the 2 rings to the third ring

Cut two ears out of the envelope of your Chinese New Year card greetings (or you can simply use pink paper )

Paste the ears and cut two eyes out of white envelope. I’m trying to recycle all I can here

Paste the eyes

Tie a gold string and hang. You may want to paint the toilet roll white before you start if you have the time

This Chinese New Year, let’s have beautiful goldfish accompanying us We’ll need only 6 red packets, oops, in this case, gold packets.

Gold Packet Gold Fish

We’ll only need two folding methods. 3 packets for each fold.

Fold both edges, leaving a small gap in the middle.

On the opposite end, fold both edges, leaving no gap in the middle.

You’ll need to fold 3 packets according to the above folding method.

Pick the part with the gap and staple so all three are attached to each other.

It should look like this.

Turn them out

See the fold line? You’ll need to cut the triangle out but do not cut on the line. Leave a little space.

Cut only one side. Leave the other untouched. Do not throw away the small triangle as you’ll need it later for the fins.

Cut the second packet. Cut only on one side too.

Cut the third packet. This time, cut both sides. You’ll now have 4 little triangles.

Fold the remaining 3 packets into half

Fold as shown above

Fold again as shown above and repeat on the other side

Fold all three packets using the above folding method.

Staple them side by side together

Place the tail in between the two packets.

Staple on one side

Staple on the other side too

Take 2 triangles

And staple as the fin

Staple the body shut

Staple as shown above

Insert your finger to puff up the fish

Take another small triangle and staple

Repeat on the other side

Staple it totally shut

Open up the tail

Cut two eyes out of white paper and draw the black eye and paste

I like to use this glass stone purchased from IKEA for the ‘fish eye’ effect.

Simply glue the glass stone onto the eyes and you are done

You may also use red packets (ang bao) if you do not have gold packets

Still don’t get it? Watch this video

Let’s make a snake today

Let’s do handprinting again Remember the Octopus we did?  Since we are in the mood for octopus, let’s make a handprint Octopus

Let’s do the bunny hop.. hop hop hop!

Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit

Paint a toilet paper roll white

Paint the eyes and dry. Read my earlier entry – tips for painting (and drying) round object here.

Cut the ears out of white paper and glue. The rabbit is done

Let’s make a reindeer out of toilet paper roll today

Toilet Paper Roll Reindeer

Cut four legs out of a toilet paper roll

Paint the reindeer brown

Paint the feet black

Paint a cotton ball red. Just dip the brush in red paint and dab the brush all over on the cotton.

Paint your thumb white

Stamp onto the reindeer as eyes. Glue the red cotton ball as nose.

Twist several short pipe cleaners and glue as the antlers.

Your toilet paper roll reindeer is done

Wow.. that’s a pretty long name for the craft we are making today

Handprint Paper Plate Reindeer Card Holder

Paint 2 paper plates brown

Cut one plate in half

Glue the circular edge

Fold the other paper plate and cut both edges. Do not throw away the edges as you’ll need it for the ears, legs and tail.

Like this

Draw the outline of your palm and cut out

Glue the handprint cut-outs

Like this

Cut out ears, legs and tail and paste. Paste eyes and nose and glue the head to the body.

The kids with their handprint paper plate reindeer card holder

The reindeer will make a very cute card holder for your favourite greeting cards

Rudolph the red nose reindeer… we’ll be making one today

Handprint Reindeer

Draw the outline of your handprint on a piece of paper and cut

Use that handprint template and draw on a brown craft foam

Cut a small oval and paste as the tail

Bend some pipe cleaners and paste on the reindeer’s head. Paste other small details.

Paste googly eyes and you are done

It has been a while since we last did a handprint art. So let’s make a handprint zebra today

Handprint Zebra

Paint your palm white and stamp on a piece of paper

Help the little one draw/paint black stripes and the zebra is done

Milton of Our Little Corners did some really wickedly awesome Halloween props!

Bloody Knife – This is MY personal favourite

Click here to learn how to make this horrifying cool props.

Mouse Ear and Nose

Click here for the full entry

Shrek headgear

Click here to learn how to make this

Thank you Milton for allowing me to share these here and Happy Halloween to all our readers out there

Refer to the video we shared on how to cut letters from paper here and we’ll be making alphabet teaching aid again today.

Today’s lucky letter is O.

O is for Octopus

Cut an O out of a piece of paper.

Use that paper O as a guide to draw the outline on a piece of colored foam.

Cut eight tentacles for the octopus.

Use hole punch and punch some circle foams.

Paste the small circles onto the tentacles.

Glue the decorated tentacles onto the O and you are done

This bat will make a great addition to your Halloween decor

Egg carton bat

You’ll need to cut the egg carton as shown above.

Paint it black. Add eyes and draw fangs.

Put a thread through it and hang. Happy Halloween