Valentine’s Day is around the corner. Let’s make a puffy heart today <3
Valentine’s Puffy Heart
Referring to our post here, cut a heart out of hard construction paper to be used as the template. Let the kids trace the outline of the heart on white hard construction paper.
Cut the heart out. Younger kids might need assistance in cutting the heart.
Paint the heart red. Let dry. Repeat on the other side.
Using a hole punch, punch a hole on the heart.
Cut long strips out of crepe paper. Cut again into small squares.
Crumple the crepe papers squares into tiny balls. You’ll need plenty of these.
Spread PVA Glue on one side of the heart.
Scatter the crepe paper balls onto the heart and press down to secure them. Repeat on the other side.
Tie a gold string through the hole and the Valentine’s Puffy Heart craft is done 
We saw some boxes lying at the corner of the craft room and came out with this impromptu idea of making a mini city for all his toy vehicles
After an hour or so of working together, we came out with this! 
Click here for full instructions.
I did a craft stick stationery holder with my student earlier this year. Refer to it here. Back then my boy was too young to make that.
Today, he is ready to make his own craft stick stationery holder and requested for a rainbow theme
Rainbow craft stick stationery holder
Paint the craft sticks with your favourite colours
Let them dry
Paste the toilet paper roll onto a piece of hard board and cut
Spread glue all over
Stick the craft sticks all around the toilet paper roll
Let it dry and decorate as you wish
I tied ribbon around it to hold the craft sticks together better
Wanna see what I did? Here…
Smiley face craft stick stationery holder
We saw some old cardboard boxes and kitchen paper rolls today and decided to make a castle out of it
Kitchen paper roll castle
We use some old box and kitchen paper rolls
Cut one end of the kitchen paper rolls to look like the top of a castle tower.
Draw a door and cut until you are able to ‘open’ it
Cut the kitchen paper roll so that you can slide the cardboard in
Slide the cardboards into the kitchen paper rolls.
Personalized it as you wish. My boy insisted of pasting ‘bricks’ on the castle
One of his favourite craft work at the moment, his very own castle
Look, he is THAT happy! Seeing him happy makes ME happy
We are still in the mushroom craze so that is what we’ll be making today
Paper plate toilet paper roll mushroom
Paint the toilet paper roll brown
Cut a line to the middle of the plate and glue as shown above.
Paint the paper plate red.
Varnish the paper plate with PVA Glue.
The paper plate should be sticky. Paste cotton on it and let dry. It will have a nice shine once dried.
Spread glue on the rim of the toilet paper roll
Plate the paper plate on the toilet paper roll
Paper plate mushrooms
The kids and their mushrooms
Mushrooms! We love mushrooms! Today we are going to make a footprint paper plate mushroom
Footprint paper plate mushroom
Cut a paper plate to the shape of a mushroom top
Paint the paper plate red.
While waiting for the paper plate to dry, paint your foot white or brown..
Stamp your painted foot on a piece of coloured construction paper.
Back to the paper plate. Paint a coat of diluted PVA glue all over the plate. This acts as an adhesive to hold the cotton later on and also as a varnish. Read here to learn more about varnishing using PVA glue.
Paste cotton balls
Spread the remaining PVA glue at the back of the paper plate
Paste it onto the footprint and the mushroom is done! Served with a bowl of freshly cooked mushroom soup, YUMMY!
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’s St. Patrick’s today and let’s celebrate by making a four leaf clover out of toilet paper roll
Four Leaf Clover
You’ll need to cut the toilet paper rolls into rings. You’ll need four rings
Press and shape them until you get 4 heart rings
Paint the heart rings green
It can get pretty messy on the fingers
Cut green crepe paper and paste onto a paper plate
Once the four heart rings dry, paste them onto the paper plate too.
Happy St. Patrick’s to all craftiers out there
It’s been sometime since we last did a toilet paper roll craft. Today, let’s make a toilet paper roll jet
Toilet Paper Roll Jet
Glue the egg carton to the toilet paper roll as what we did previously for the toilet paper roll plane. Refer to it here.
Paint it with the colour of your choice
Cut the necessary shapes out of coloured foam for the wings
Stick yellow cellophane sheets as the flame at the end of the jet
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 B.
B is for Butterfly
Cut a B out of a piece of paper.
Use that paper B as a guide to draw the outline on a piece of colored foam
Use craft punch to punch out colourful circles and paste all over the B.
It’s Valentine’s Day today and we are making a cute cupid out of toilet paper roll
Toilet Paper Roll Cupid
Paint a toilet paper roll pink
Paste eyes onto the roll. Alternatively you may dip your finger into white paint and print it as the eyes, paint black for the eyeball.
Draw the mouth
You’ll need some aluminium foil
Twist the foil until you get a strip and shape it into a wing. Repeat until you get a pair of wings
Use cellophane tape to tape the wings into place
Cut a strip of white paper and paste onto the cupid. Get some cotton and paste it too as the hair
Use pipe cleaner and craft foam and make the bow and arrow.
Glue the arrow and bow onto the cupid and you are done!
Happy Valentine’s Day y’all
Craft sticks can be used to make beautiful decorative items. Today, let’s make an insect garden
Craft Stick Insect Garden
- You’ll need 8 craft sticks.
– Arrange them as shown above and glue to keep them in place.
Refer here for the ladybug instructions and here for the bee instructions.
- Cut some grass out of green felt and paste them all onto the craft sticks.
– Your masterpiece will definitely cheer up any dull looking wall
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
Let’s go sailing today
Egg carton sail boat
We’ll need some colored corrugated papers, egg carton and wooden sticks
Draw a triangle on a drawing board and paint on both sides
Once dry, cut and paste on a wooden stick
Use a single hole punch and punch a hole in the middle of the egg carton
Paste corrugated paper to cover the egg carton
Place the wooden stick with the sail in the hole and sit two eggs in your sail boat
We are ready to sail
We need to eat a lot of popsicles to do this
Craft stick stationery holder
Get a toilet paper roll tube, the bigger the better.
Draw a circle on a hardboard box, cut and paste.
Spread some glue
Put an elastic band in the middle and insert the craft sticks.
The band is to hold the sticks in place.
Glue the craft stick all around the toilet paper roll tube.
Tie a string around it.
And you are done. You may also add some little bugs as deco.
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Still in the beads mood, Ethan requested for a car for each of us. That means I have to make 3 cars! OK, here goes…
Pyssla beads nicely arranged. Now all it needs is some ironing
My pink car and Ethan’s blue car. Nice?
He loves his brand new car. Wait till you see what I got for Darling
Tah-dah!
I Love U
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Was shopping for gifts in Toys ‘r’ Us today when I came across THIS! Pyssla beads! Ok, so they don’t call them ‘Pyssla’ but they sure ARE the BEADS that I’ve come to LOVE so much recently! So to those of you who live far, far away from IKEA, you can now get your beads from Toys ‘r’ Us!
Now.. isn’t THAT great? I bet many of you will make a dash to Toys ‘r’ Us soon
Our Pyssla beads project for today is…
Watermelon!
It’s a bird…. It’s a plane.. Yeah… It’s a PLANE!
Toilet roll airplane
Glue egg carton and toilet roll together
Paint the toilet roll
Let them dry
Paint windows on the plane. Use hairdryer to expedite the drying process. Read more about it here.
Use colored craft foams as the wings and deco
The plane is ready to fly
The kids and their planes
Let’s make a Christmas tree out of craft sticks today
Craft stick Christmas tree
Glue 3 craft sticks to form a triangle. Let dry.
Paint it green. Once dried, decorate as you wish.
Tie a silver / golden thread if you wish to hang it as a Christmas tree ornament.
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
