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
Today we are just going to put cotton balls together to make a snowman

Just paste the cottonball and decorate as you wish. Your snowman is done

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
We did a very interesting art piece today

Handprint Santa Claus

First paint your palm white

Stamp the painted palm onto a darker coloured paper

Paint your thumb red

Stamp the painted thumb as Santa’s nose

Paint your thumb pink

And stamp as the Santa’s cheeks

Paint your thumb white and stamp as the eyes

Cut the Santa’s hat out of red felt. We use red foam as I happened to run out of felt! Improvise!
Paste on some cotton too

Paste a cotton ball at the end of the hat

Paint your pointer black and stamp as Santa’s eyeball and you are done

Handprint Santa – featuring cute kiddos Cavan of Life Muses and Ethel of Ling in De House
Today, let’s make good use of the egg carton again and make catterpillars out of it

Egg Carton Catterpillars

Cut an egg carton and paint

Remember the craft tips on how to expedite the drying process of your craft work? If you don’t, read about it here.

Paint your pointer white and stamp as the eyes.

Done
Victoria Ruby Azevedo gave me this idea through our Facebook Fan Club page and I tried it out with Ethan. This is our outcome

Toilet Paper Roll Tree

Paint the toilet paper roll brown

Let it dry

Cut a tree top out of a green foam

Use a single hole punch, punch out red little 'apples'

Glue the 'apples' onto the tree top

Cut a slit on both opposite sides

Insert the tree top and your toilet paper roll tree is done
Thank you Victoria for the great idea
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
When we go out shopping, we like to sample food given by the promoters and always end up with lots of paper cups in hand. Instead of just disposing them, if they are used to serve you cereals or any dry food, chances are they are still clean. Let’s do Mother Nature a favour and recycle those paper cups. Let’s transform them into pretty flowers

Paper Cup Flower

See this paper cup? Don’t throw them away.
Let’s make a flower out of it

Cut all around the paper cup

Cut a circle out of craft foam and paste.
Any color of your choice.

Glue a craft stick at the back. Let it dry.

Your simple paper cup flower is done
UFO – Unidentified Flying Object. Let’s make one today

Paper plate UFO

You’ll need to paint two pieces of paper plates.

Decorate the paper plate with glitter paper.
Cut an alien out of green paper and paste.

Glue an empty plastic container over the alien.
Glue the two pieces of paper plates together.

We had a ‘Project UFO’ in the studio last Saturday.

And the kids loved it. These are some of their UFOs

Boys will definitely love this craft
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
Muffins are delicious. Today we are going to use muffin cups to make beautiful flowers

Muffin cup flowers

We’ll need muffin cups

Paste them onto a piece of paper

Press to keep them in place

Use a coin as a guide and draw a circle on a color craft foam.

Paste the craft foam in the middle of the muffin cups

Like this

Cut strips out of brown craft foam and paste

Bend a green pipe cleaner and paste as the leaf

Repeat

You’re done

The satisfaction I got from that smile of his – PRICELESS
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
Incy Wincy spider climbed up the spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
So Incy Wincy spider went up the spout again!

Egg carton spider

Paint the egg carton black

Paste a couple of eyes

Use a black pipe cleaner for the legs

Put a thread through it and you’ll have dangling spiders!

Cool!
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
