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When I do grocery shopping, I often get bowls as free gifts for some of my purchases. Today, I feel like doing something to beautify the bowl and make it the center of attraction

All we need is the bowl and a bear. I use the bear I got from being a loyal member of a supermarket chain

Glue the hands and feet to the bowl. Tie a golden ribbon around the neck and your guest will never know that the bowl and bear are made up of cheap stuff

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.

Let’s do the bunny hop.. hop hop hop!

Toilet Paper Roll Rabbit

Paint a toilet paper roll white

Paint the eyes and dry. Read my earlier entry – tips for painting (and drying) round object here.

Cut the ears out of white paper and glue. The rabbit is done

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

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

Mooncake festival is around the corner and people all over are making lanterns to celebrate it. Here’s a video tutorial on how to recycle Chinese Takeout boxes into beautiful lanterns by Shiho Masuda. Check out more of his awesome creations here.

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

Toilet paper roll is so much fun. I don’t dispose them. I keep them and transformed them into something cute. Today, we are going to transform a TP Roll into a penguin

Toilet Paper Roll Penguin

Paint the toilet paper roll black

Cut a semi-oval from a white piece of paper and paste on the TP Roll

Cut a pair of flippers from black sugar paper and paste

Paint your fingertip white and stamp it on the TP Roll as the eyes

Paste a pair of feet and draw the black of the eye. The penguin is done

Feel like spying today? Let’s make a binoculars out of those toilet paper rolls

Toilet Paper Roll Binoculars

Paint two toilet paper rolls black

Once dried glue them together

Use pegs to secure the rolls together while drying

Wrap the binoculars with a strip of black sugar paper.

Wrap a strip of gold or silver paper on each roll too.

You may also cover the roll with colored cellophane as the lens.

Your binoculars is done. Now… let’s spy

Craft goes green! I’m not throwing those polystyrene fruit trays away. Instead, we are making a tortoise out of it today

Polystyrene tortoise

Cut a polystyrene fruit tray into ‘cups of bowls’

Paint the polystyrene bowl

Cut squares out of paper and paste on the shell.

Cut out head and legs out of colored foams and paste.

Paste eyes.

Tortoises in meeting

The kids and their tortoises in hand and on their heads

Our crafts are going green so don’t throw your egg carton away. Let’s make a cool cat today

Egg carton cat

Cut the egg carton individually as shown in the picture above.

Glue them together and paint.

Let dry

Paint your fingertip white and stamp as the eyes

Cut two triangles from felt and paste as the ears

Decorate the cat as you wish

The egg carton cat is ready. Meow

Since making the vitagen bottle elephant the other day, I’m very inspired to make other animals out of it. Today, we shall make a panda out of a vitagen bottle

Vitagen Panda

Draw a circle out of a white piece of paper, cut and paste to cover the mouth of the bottle

- Do the same for the base of the bottle.
- Paste small strips of paper to cover the entire surface and add some black parts using black sugar paper.

- Cut two ears out of black craft foam and paste

- Cut 2 eyes out of black sugar paper and paste.
- Paste 2 small googly eyes on it.
- Cut a small heart shape for the nose and draw the mouth.
- Use black craft foam as the legs.

Nice?

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!

Craft goes green Let’s make a robot out of empty boxes today

Robot

- Wrap two boxes of different sizes.
- Use any colored paper as you wish.

Two boxes wrapped in different colored papers

- Paste a couple of stones or buttons as the eyes

- Paste bottle caps as the ears

- Decorate the robot as you wish

- Paste 2 plastic cups as the legs

The robot is done

Ready for action

If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I like to recycle stuffs for crafts. Today, I’m very happy for the craft that I’m sharing with you is totally, 100%, originally MINE

I sat for hours looking at the Vitagen bottles piling up in the recycling box in my kitchen. Yes, I have boxes in the kitchen labelled “plastic“, “glass“, “paper” and “others“. We ALL need to do our part for the environment, don’t we? After hours and hours of looking at the bottle, I finally came out with THIS. I’m so happy (oh yes, I’ve said that already ).

Alright, enough of talking and let’s get to back to business. A friend of mine calls this elephant ELEGEN, so ELEGEN it shall be Ladies and gentlemen, presenting….

Elegen, the Vitagen Elephant

Draw a circle, cut and paste to cover the ‘mouth’ of the bottle.

Use small strips of paper and paste until you’ve covered the entire bottle.

Cut 2 long strips of paper. I used two different colors.
Fold on top of each other and then paste as the trunk.
Cut 2 ears out of colored craft foam and paste.

Cut four strips out of colored craft foam and glue the ends to form a loop.
Paste onto the elephant as the legs.

Glue a pipe cleaner as the tail.
I stick an oval craft foam at the end for maximum cuteness effect

Elegen - MY Vitagen Elephant

Egg carton fish

The next time you think of throwing out your egg cartons, think again for they can be used to make beautiful fish!

Egg carton

Cut the egg carton into individual cups.
Glue them together to get the shape of a fish.

Paint the fish

The kids deep in concentration

Cut craft foams as the fins. Use pipe cleaner as the mouth

The kid’s finished product – The Egg Carton Fish. Simply beautiful!

The kids and their fish striking a pose

I have several clocks at home that is no longer working. Instead of just disposing them off, I’ve decided to turn them into a photo frame

Clock frame

Get a photo that is big enough to fit into the clock.

Draw a circle and cut.

Use a double sided tape to secure the photo in the clock and hang it up