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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

It’s time to get ticklish again Blurp, blurp.. FISH here we come

Footprint Fish

Paint your feet red or any colour of your choice and stamp onto a drawing block

Paint your pointer white and stamp as the eyes. Paint some fins and the fish is done

Remember the video I shared on how to cut letters out of paper here ? Well, we are going to make use of our new found skill and make learning the alphabets so much FUN!

From today onwards we are going to make random alphabet craft projects. We are going to start with the letter D. We are going to make a Dino teaching aid

D for Dinosaur

Cut out a D and outline it on a brown foam or any color of your choice.

That letter D will be the prominent feature in this craft

Using other colors except brown, cut out body parts from craft foams.

I refrain from using brown again as we need the letter D to stand out.

Glue onto the letter D

Cut out shapes for decorative purposes and glue onto the dinosaur

The Dinosaur is done

Oink! Oink!

Egg carton pig

You’ll need two cups of from the egg carton

Glue them together

Hold them together so that they stick nicely on each other

Paint it pink

Use pink craft foams to decorate the pig and you are done

Remember the abstract art we did previously? If you don’t, check it out here.

We are going to make a lantern out of that art piece today.

Craft Stick Lantern

Paste 4 craft sticks to form a square on the art piece

Paste more sticks until you get 4 squares

Cut and paste the end together. Cover the bottom and stick a tea light in the middle.

I made another using Panda as the motive and I find it really cool

Using crayons, I drew a couple of pandas on a tracing paper

Like this

Cover it with another tracing paper

Iron. Again, please be careful while handling hot iron. Make sure the little ones are no where nearby.

Cut and glue together

Nice

Do you know we can make a cute octopus out of toilet paper roll? Let’s make one today

Toilet Paper Roll Octopus

Paint a toilet paper roll with colour of your choice

Let dry and cut strips mid way through the tube

Use a marker and roll the strips to curl it

Curled up octopus

Paint your pointer white

Stamp your fingers as the eyes

Paint the black eye.

Get a hole punch and punch out tiny circles out of yellow foam

Paste the tiny foam circles onto the octopus

The octopus is done

I love sheeps. Let’s make a sheep today

Paper Plate Cotton Sheep

Paint a paper plate grey

Cut the sides and paste

Paint your thumb white

Dot as the eyes and paint the nose

Cut a pair of ears from white and pink paper

The face is done

Paste cotton balls on an empty paper plate

Paste the face to the body

Your paper plate cotton sheep is done

Toilet paper roll is so much fun. I don’t dispose them. I keep them and transformed them into something cute. Today, we are going to transform a TP Roll into a penguin

Toilet Paper Roll Penguin

Paint the toilet paper roll black

Cut a semi-oval from a white piece of paper and paste on the TP Roll

Cut a pair of flippers from black sugar paper and paste

Paint your fingertip white and stamp it on the TP Roll as the eyes

Paste a pair of feet and draw the black of the eye. The penguin is done

Babies are always so cute. Let’s do a baby chicken – a footprint chick today

Footprint Chick

Paint your foot yellow

Stamp your painted footprint onto a drawing block

Paint 3 fingers and stamp onto the footprint as the wing

Add details and an extra HUGE googly eyes for the maximum cuteness effect You might want to paint the chick's feet orange instead of black. I regretted painting it black

For the very first time, we did a paint art. I drew the koala bears and guide Ethan to paint them. Here’s how to draw a simple koala bear.

Draw a U shaped nut

Draw a number SIX

Draw some claws and add details such as eyes and nose

First paint the sky

Then, paint some clouds

Paint the tree trunk

Add shades to the tree trunk

Add leaves

Add contours/colors to the leaves

First, outline the koala bear and then paint.

Lastly shade the bear and you’re done.

Ethan @ 36 months old

Craft goes green! I’m not throwing those polystyrene fruit trays away. Instead, we are making a tortoise out of it today

Polystyrene tortoise

Cut a polystyrene fruit tray into ‘cups of bowls’

Paint the polystyrene bowl

Cut squares out of paper and paste on the shell.

Cut out head and legs out of colored foams and paste.

Paste eyes.

Tortoises in meeting

The kids and their tortoises in hand and on their heads

Painting is just so much fun! We are very happy today so let’s make a happy footprint penguin

Footprint Penguin

Paint your foot white, then outline with black

It should be something like this

Stamp your painted foot onto a piece of paper

Paint your thumb black and stamp on both sides of the penguin

Use a hole punch to punch out small circles out of black craft foam.

Dab some glue on it.

Paste as the eyes. Cut a triangle out of felt and paste as the beak.

Happy feet is done

Our crafts are going green so don’t throw your egg carton away. Let’s make a cool cat today

Egg carton cat

Cut the egg carton individually as shown in the picture above.

Glue them together and paint.

Let dry

Paint your fingertip white and stamp as the eyes

Cut two triangles from felt and paste as the ears

Decorate the cat as you wish

The egg carton cat is ready. Meow

Today, we are going to make a lobster out of our hand and footprint

Hand and Footprint Lobster

Paint your foot red

Print your painted foot on a piece of paper

Paint your palm red

Print both of your palms as shown in the picture

Use a brush to draw a line to connect the palm to the feet

Paint your fingertip black and stamp as the eyes

Your hand and footprint lobster is done

Since making the vitagen bottle elephant the other day, I’m very inspired to make other animals out of it. Today, we shall make a panda out of a vitagen bottle

Vitagen Panda

Draw a circle out of a white piece of paper, cut and paste to cover the mouth of the bottle

- Do the same for the base of the bottle.
- Paste small strips of paper to cover the entire surface and add some black parts using black sugar paper.

- Cut two ears out of black craft foam and paste

- Cut 2 eyes out of black sugar paper and paste.
- Paste 2 small googly eyes on it.
- Cut a small heart shape for the nose and draw the mouth.
- Use black craft foam as the legs.

Nice?

This is one cute craft you can do with your old newspaper See, our crafts are going green!

Cotton sheep

- Crumple a newspaper into a ball.
- Use masking tape to cover the entire surface

- Paste rolled up cotton onto the newspaper ball

- Poke a toothpick through, glue and let dry.
- Cut black straws and glue over the toothpicks.
- Let dry.

- Cut a face out of black colored foam and paste.
- Paste a couple of googly eyes and your cotton ball sheep is ready! So cute

Trumpet please! We are making an elephant today

Plate Elephant

Draw a circle on a felt, any colour of your choice. Draw a line in the middle and cut so you will have two semi-circles.

Glue the semi-circles as the ears.

Cut a strip of paper and fold accordion style.

Click here to learn what is accordion fold.

Glue the strip of paper as the trunk.

Glue two googly eyes and you are done