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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

We are making an auspicious Ancient Coin Lantern using red packets today

Ang Pao Ancient Coin Lantern

You’ll need to fold 16 packets of ang paos as shown above – fold all four edges.

Staple them together to get 4 of the above

Staple them together to get the above

Arrange and staple them as shown above

Side view. Add tassel and your lantern is done

If you still don’t get it, watch this video

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

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

We are going to make a Star out of red packets today

Red Packet Lucky Star Lantern

Fold ten red packets as shown above.

It should look like a diamond from the back

Staple five diamond shape red packets to form a star.

Make two sets.

Staple the two sets together and you’ll get a lovely LUCKY star lantern.

An auspicious decor for Chinese New Year Tie a gold string so you can hang it.

Add a beautiful tassle to make your star a lovely one

Ang Pow Lucky Star lantern

Toilet Paper Roll Oranges

Cut a toilet paper roll into rings

Cut a circle out of a paper plate and paste onto the ring

Paint it orange

We did three oranges

Cut a leaf out of green felt and paste on the oranges

Frame them up and they’ll be a nice wall decor this Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is around the corner so let’s do some paper cuts today. Let’s start with the word SPRING

Spring has arrived

Get a square paper

Fold half

Fold half again

Write the character Spring on the paper as shown above

Cut. Cut a small hole at the top and tie a thread through it.

We should use red or gold thread but I did the above in my working place

and so happen to be running out on those two so I made do with white

Today’s art work is very simple yet beautiful – fingerprint cherry blossoms.

Fingerprint Cherry Blossoms

Paint the branches and let dry

Dip your fingers or thumb into pink paint

Start stamping all over

Nice Cherry Blossoms for the Chinese New Year

Let’s start working on Chinese New Year decorations

Today, we are going to use toilet paper roll and some red packets to make a fire cracker

Red packet toilet paper roll fire cracker

Cut two circles out of a red packet

Paste on both ends of the toilet paper roll

Take a cute red packet and paste around the toilet roll.

Cut a strip of aluminium foil, twist it and paste on one end of the roll and you are done

We are making a toilet paper roll snowman today

Toilet Paper Roll Snowman

Cut a strip of white paper

Wrap and paste the toilet paper roll. You may opt to paint the whole roll white instead of wrapping it with paper.

Cut another toilet paper roll at 1/3 of the length and paint black as the snowman’s hat

Cut a circle and paste the top of the hat. Cut a bigger circle for the bottom of the hat.

Paste the hat on the white toilet roll.

Add details such as eyes and all.

Your toilet paper roll snowman is done

Let’s make a handprint Christmas mitten today

Handprint Christmas mitten

Paint your palm white

Stamp your painted palm on red construction paper

Draw the shape of a mitten and cut

Paste some cotton on the mitten and you are done

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

We are making a giant Handprint Christmas tree today. Well, you determine how GIANT you want it to be

Giant Handprint Christmas Tree

Get the kids to paint their palm green or yellow

How GIANT the Christmas tree will depend on how BIG your paper is.

Lightly draw a large triangle on the paper and get the kids to stamp their painted palm within the triangle area.

Repeat until the whole area is stamped.

Paint your palm yellow and stamp on the top of the Christmas tree as the star.

Let it dry

Once dried, paint your thumb and decorate.

You may also use sponge and rollers. Just have fun and decorate!

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

It’s gonna be another round of ticklish affair

Footprint Christmas Tree

Paint your foot green

Stamp your painted foot onto a paper plate

Use craft punch and punch out various shapes using different coloured papers

Paste and decorate the tree as you wish

The footprint Christmas tree is done Tie a string and hang it on your real Christmas tree

Let’s make a paper plate angel today

Paper plate angel

Cut a paper plate half

Take one half and seal the ends together to form a cone

Cut hands and wings out of the other half of the plate

Paste it onto the ‘cone’

Cut a semi circle for the face and hair from coloured paper and paste together

Draw eyes on the face and glue to the body. We glued toothpick at the back to keep the head up

A lovely angel as your Christmas decoration