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Ice-cream

Posted by Merryn | Posted in Craft from Recycled Materials, Paper Plate Crafts | Posted on 29-06-2009 | 7,745 views

Tags: ice cream, ice cream craft

Feeling all hot and craving for ice-cream? Try this ‘ice-cream’ that won’t melt! Of course it won’t melt, it is made of card board and paper plates. 😀

Paint a paper plate red and another yellow. You may paint it any colour as you wish and you may paint as many plates you like. Each colour will represent a scoop on your cone!

Just the middle part will do. Once dried, cut out a ‘cloud’ shape from each colour to form the ‘ice-cream’

Get a recycle box to make the ‘cone’. Draw a cone shape and line it with markers or colour pencil.

Once all is done, paste them all together. I added some glitters on the top of my ice-cream as ‘toppings’!

Stick it onto a wall or anywhere as you wish. This ice-cream will never melt! 😀

Fingerprint Bees

Posted by Merryn | Posted in Art Crafts, Bee, Fingerprint Art, Insect crafts | Posted on 25-06-2009 | 18,356 views

Tags: Bee, bee art, fingerprint craft

What to do on a bored rainy day? Get your water paint out and let’s start finger printing!

First I let him do some ‘practise’ on a piece of paper.

Upon reaching the ‘pro‘ level, I let him do the finger printing on a new piece of paper! 😀

There! After the paint has dried up, I help him draw some stripes and wings and his finger prints are now Buzzing Busy Bees!

Origami Koala

Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Koala, Origami, Paper Crafts | Posted on 23-06-2009 | 16,476 views

Tags: Koala, Origami

I love Koalas. They are just so cute. Here is a simple way to make your very own Origami Koala.

You’ll need a square paper.

Fold it in half.

Fold one end down to the bottom.

Followed by the other.

Fold a flap up.

And another flap for the ears.

Flap it back down a little bit to make it blunt.

Repeat on the other.

Fold down the upper part of the head.

Fold up one side of the lower part of the face.

And the other.

Turn it over and decorate it as you wish.

Origami Fish

Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Fish, Origami | Posted on 18-06-2009 | 13,293 views

Tags: Fish, Origami

Another easy origami to do.

You’ll need a square paper to start with.

Fold it into two.

Fold the bottom end up into the middle.

Repeat on the other side.

Fold a flip.

Fold another flip. Can you see Ethan’s little fingers joining in the ‘glamour‘? ^^

Turn it over and you’ll get this. Decorate it with eyes and mouth and you’re done!

Ethan admiring the origami fish. 😀

Bee

Posted by Merryn | Posted in Bee, Insect crafts, Paper Plate Crafts | Posted on 15-06-2009 | 12,430 views

Tags: Bee, bee craft, paper plate craft

This chubby bee is very easy to do and looks so cute, all kids will love it!

You need to paint the back of one paper plate yellow.

And another paper plate black.

* Cut four stripes of black craft foam and paste onto the yellow paper plate.

* Cut the black paper plate into half and paste it at the back of the yellow plate as wings.

* Use pipe cleaner as the antennae and sting.

* Use googly eyes or stone as the eyes and you’re done!

Chub-bee!

Father’s Day is around the corner. I’ve made this card for my Darling, for being the #1 Dad to my precious Ethan. I’ll make another for my Dad too, for being the #1 Grandpa to Ethan and the #1 Dad to ME!

I use blue craft foam.

Fold both ends so that they meet in the middle.

Push down the top corner to make the ‘collar’. Glue it down.

Draw some lines and cut a line through the pocket to insert a note.

I printed Darling’s name and a note to slip into the pocket. Peek-a-boo at what’s inside.

Peek again…

Tah-dah! My precious Darlings!

Star

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Paper Crafts, Shapes | Posted on 09-06-2009 | 9,776 views

Tags: Shapes, star

If you are a crafter, it is important to know how to get certain shapes right. Here I would like to share how to fold and cut the perfect star.

Fold once.

Fold again.

Unfold.

Fold the corner to the line in the middle.

Fold the tip down.

Fold vertically.

Cut along the line. Open and you get yourself a beautiful star!

Paper Plate Fish

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Animal Crafts, Fish, Paper Plate Crafts | Posted on 06-06-2009 | 10,353 views

Tags: Fish, marine life, paper plate craft

This is the basic of all paper plate crafts. The simplest to do.

Use a craft scissors to cut out a small triangle. You may also use normal scissors if you do not have any craft scissors.

Stick the small triangle to form a tail.

Now here is the tedious part. I use a craft punch and punch out a thousand ‘hearts’ from old magazine pages and get Ethan to do the pasting.

Half an hour later, he is still pasting! LOL! You may opt to just color the fish instead.

Use a button, stone or anything you wish for the eye and it’s done!

Pop-Up Card – House

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Posted by Merryn | Posted in Cards, Pop Up Card | Posted on 03-06-2009 | 32,929 views

Tags: greeting cards, house, house card, Pop Up Card

A friend of mine will be shifting to her new house soon. I made this card to go along with the house warming gift.First, I print out some congratulatory message on a yellow A4 paper.
Cut 2 lines.
Pinch it out.
Fold it in. Decorate it and the pop-up house is ready! Oh yeah, paste it on another piece of paper to make it sturdier. 😀