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.
I was a pre-school teacher when I was expecting my little artist Ethan. It was always my intention to continue teaching and remain in the working force. All that changed the moment I laid hand on my baby in the Operating Theatre. I submitted my resignation and vowed to be the best mother a mom can be to my son. I live with this mantra in my head – “A parent is a child’s first teacher”.
My love for art and crafts helps create that special bond between Ethan and I. We started crafting together when he was 12 months old and it helps in his motor and fine skills development tremendously. Initially we’ll hang up his masterpieces in the Art Room in the house. Overtime, we ran out of walls.
That is when crafty-crafted.com was born; to immortalize his artwork and also to share our ideas with other mommies out there. That was 3 years ago.
A week ago, we finally got ourselves a colour printer. We chose a HP colour inkjet printer. I need not limit his creativity to only water paint and crayons anymore. He can now print out stuffs that he created online.
For a start, with the Chinese New Year around the corner Ethan did his first printing craftwork.
Personalised Ang Pow Packet
He personalised his very own red packets to be given to his grandparents. Let’s have a look at how he does it
A+ #1 – First, choose a picture of the person you are giving the Ang Pow to. This is easily done by stalking their Facebook account I helped Ethan to get the pictures of my nieces from my sisters’ FB account and saved them in my PC.
A+ #2 – Ethan chose the pictures that he likes best and starts printing. Mind you, he did it all by himself as shown in the video at the end of this post!
A+ #3 – Quickly and silently, our new HP printer did the job. Excellent!
A+ #4 – Take an old Ang Pow packet and tear it open to be used as a template. Trace the outline according to the template.
A+ #5 – The personalised Ang Pow is slowly taking shape.
A+ #6 – Cut accordingly. Please assist your child if he has yet to master the art of cutting with a pair of scissors.
A+ #7 – The personalised Ang Pow cut out.
A+ #8 – Fold accordingly and paste.
A+ #9 – The personalised Ang Pow is done!
A+ #10 – Ethan personalised Ang Pows for all his cousin sisters and even did some of himself to be given to his grandparents
Lovely isn’t it? We are highly impressed with the printout. It looked so natural and beautiful, we are definitely going to do more print art in the future!
I am an A+ mom and so can you!
Watch the video of Ethan printing his very own personalized Ang Pow.
Let’s make a bird today. Not an angry bird but a cute one
Toilet Paper Roll Bird
Paint a toilet paper roll any colour to your liking.
Paint your thumb white and stamp as the white eye. Paint your pointer black and stamp again as the eyeball
Cut two triangles out of orange construction paper for the beak
Spread PVA glue all over the toilet roll
Now it’s the fun part – Sticking feathers onto the bird.
Instead of buying feathers from craft store, I bought a brand new feather duster and stripped the feathers from it instead. It’s much cheaper that way!
The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated by Chinese in many countries. According to the Chinese Calendar, the Hungry Ghost Festival falls on the 15th night of the seventh lunar month. It is believed, ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm on this day.
Keeping up with the ghostly season, we did a Hungry Ghost craft today.
I cut the edges of a paper plate so that it has sharp teeth all over
Cut a construction paper and paste the paper plate teeth on it.
Add eyes and the ghost is ready! I wanted to add splashes of red paint to make the ghost a very gory one but decided against it as I don’t wanna cause nightmares to the kids!
I received an amazing gift for Teacher’s Day recently. I was speechless when I saw it as it was simply awesome! What did I get? I got a handmade zippers pencil case.
Zippers Pencil Case (Front)
Back. The pencil case is made up of only zips sewn together!
It can be opened from any zips I like
I can choose to open it from the middle too
Beautiful and simply amazing! The best gift I received ever!
I made some beautiful ball lanterns and many have requested for me to share the steps here.
Red Packet Ball Lantern
Gold Packet Ball Lantern
I found it very difficult to explain it with pictures but I found this video instead. Let’s watch this video and I’m sure you’ll be able to make your very own beautiful ball lantern using red packets
A friend of mine requested me to make it round, like a ball without those spikes. What you need to do is just follow the steps shown in the video, and after you are done, just fold the spikes and staple them.
Staple as shown above. Your lantern will turn out lovely
I helped Ethan to get the pictures of my nieces from my sisters’ FB account and saved them in my PC.
