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.
Today we are going to blast off to the moon
Footprint Rocket
Paint the foot any colours you like and the toes orange or any other colours that represents the flame of the rocket.
It should be something like shown above
Stamp the painted foot on a piece of paper.
Glue 3 triangles – 2 at the sides and 1 on top and the rocket is ready for blast-off!
He loves rockets!
We are very excited today. We did a paper mache aeroplane! We can now build our very own toys! Yeay!
Paper Mache Aeroplane
Cut wings and tail out of paper plate and attach to an empty plastic bottle using masking tape.
Spread glue on the bottle and paste wet shredded paper. Repeat until the entire bottle is covered.
It is best to paste few layers to get solid and hard aeroplane.
Finish with a layer of white recycled paper and let dry.
Paint it with the colour of your choice.
Decorate it.
Paint windows and all. Let dry and spray a layer of varnish to seal the paint.
He now has a new aeroplane to play with!
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
Let’s learn basic shapes today and along the way make a dump truck out of it
Dump truck
I cut several basic shapes such as rectangle, square and circle. We also shredded some crepe paper.
Use a glue stick to stick the shapes
Paste the shapes onto an art block
Spread some glue on the top part of the dump truck
Stick the confetti (shredded crepe paper) on and you are done
Basic shapes dump truck
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
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
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
Craft go green Don’t throw your empty bottles away. Today, we are going to make a rocket
Rocket from recycled bottle
- Get an empty bottle
- Wrap it with aluminium foil
- Press and squeeze it tight until you see the shape of the bottle forming
Use colored craft foams to decorate the rocket
- Make a cone out of paper and stick to the tip of the rocket
- Wrap it with aluminium foil and decorate as you wish
Your awesome rocket is done!
Want to have your favourite animated characters as your fridge magnet? It does not have to cost alot. Try this simple to do fridge magnets…
Character Fridge Magnet / Note Holder
Take any of your favourite animated characters stickers.
Paste it onto any hardboard paper. I used name cards from the mail box. It's better to recycle them than to throw them away just like that.
Cut it and glue a cute peg at the back.
Glue a magnet on the peg and let dry.
Your fridge magnet is ready. Simple and inexpensive
Let’s go sailing today
Origami Yacht
Fold the paper half.
Fold up.
Fold up again as shown in the picture. Your yacht is now ready. So simple.
If you have worked on an origami recently and would like to share with us, submit your origami here. We will link it back to you
Choo choo.. Let’s make a train today.
Arm train.
First, stretch your arm and draw the outline.
Dip the toothbrush bristles into colour of your choice.
Scrape the bristles against the comb.
Repeat using other colours.
Paste the 'arm' onto a piece of paper, forming a train.
Draw windows, tracks and smoke. Your train is ready.
Any idea on what else can we create from our arm? Let’s share here.
This origami car will go well with little boys.
Start with a square piece of paper
Fold it half.
Fold it half again and open it back. We just need the line that has formed.
Fold up into the middle line.
Fold both ends down.
Fold it close along the middle line.
Like this...
Fold the end up again.
Fold one end down and turn it around.
Draw the window and door as you wish and your origami car is ready to go!
Thinking back on ol’ school time. Flying a paper jetplane is a must do everyday during a boring lesson.
The origami jetplane is now ready!
The happiest kid around!
Remember back in our ol’ school days we used to fold this boat? I was reminded of this boat by my students. Let’s see how she fold this boat.
Fold an a4 paper into half.
Fold the sides to the middle line.
Both sides.
Fold the four corners up to the middle.
And again for all four corners.
Like this.
Fold a small flip at both sides.
The trickiest part is to turn the boat inside out.
Once you got that mastered, you’ll get your origami boat!
The kids and their boat. Unfortunately, there was no boat for Ethan that day. But he is still happy though! ^^
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