You know I do a lot of hand and foot painting with my boy. When it’s time to wash his hands or feet, it is such a hassle if I need to grab hold of a soap bar or squeeze some out of a bottle.
What I normally do is to wash and decorate my empty shower gel bottles and refill them with handwash liquid.
I have a bottle in every corner of my house! Just kidding 😀 I only have them in every corner of the washroom 😛
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 :D).
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 😀
Each time we drive through McD, we’ll get a tray to hold the drinks. Do you know they make great holder for some art items? I used them to hold my tempera paste 😀
Calling all Mommies (and Daddies)with kids between 2-6 years old
Exclusive Contest: Watch and Win Cool Playhouse Disney Goodies
“ANGELINA BALLERINA” DEBUTS ON PLAYHOUSE DISNEY
ON JUNE 21, MONDAY, AT 4.30PM!
Angelina Ballerina will pirouette on to screens in Malaysia on Playhouse Disney (Astro Channel 613)beginning June 21, Monday, at 4.30pm and will air daily on weekdays at 4.30pm in June. The series will feature energetic music-and-dance-filled adventures starring Angelina Ballerina, the little mouseling with big dreams!
Inspired by the award-winning children’s book series by author Katharine Holabird and illustrator Helen Craig, Angelina Ballerina follows 8-year-old Angelina as she attends Camembert Academy, a school for Performing Arts where she experiences new forms of music and dance. This brand new series on Playhouse Disney introduces preschoolers to the joys of movement, artistic expression, musicality, imagination and coordination and brings music and many forms of dance, including ballet, modern, tap, jazz, classical and ethnic dances from around the world, straight to these kids. A team of accredited dance instructors and music education specialists helped develop the show’s arts education curriculum.
Angelina always works hard to reach her goals and learns from her mistakes. As the little ones share Angelina’s experiences, they will be inspired to go after their big dreams too!
To welcome Angelina Ballerina, Playhouse Disney is also delighted to bring your preschooler dance-related new episodes of My Friends Tigger and Pooh, Handy Manny and Chloe’s Closet airing from 2.00pm onwards on the same day!
NOW…
While your kids watch the show, we encourage you to spend a fun afternoon to explore with your little one, creatively, on who/what they want to be when they grow up:
– Step 1:Create an image of your preschooler’s “big dream” using thumbprints on a piece of art paper (can be both yours and hers or his)
Example:
When I grow up I want to be Mr. Cool Guy😀
OK, so that is so lame. I know you can do better😛
– Step 2:Email your creation/s through to[email protected], before July 2, 2010, Friday
– Step 3:Top 3 lucky contestants with the most creative designs win – each goodie bag contains RM150 worth of Playhouse Disney premiums! Participants will need to check the results inhttp://www.crafty-crafted.comorhttp://www.submerryn.comon July 9 to see if your art piece won!😉
Here’s a bonus – The top 3 winning entries will be published inhttp://www.crafty-crafted.comwith a link back to your blog (if any). It’s also a chance for you to be ‘discovered‘ by Playhouse Disney! So what are you waiting for? Get creative and start finger printing NOW 😀
P/S: I won’t be the only ONE judging the entries, so no point of bribing ME😛
GOOD LUCK!
*This contest is open to readers residing in Malaysia only*
Sugar paper or construction paper is a light paper that looks frosted due to the nature of the source material from which the paper is manufactured. It is a tougher type of coloured paper; coarse, slightly rough with unfinished surface and is mostly available in large sheets.
The most commonly used sugar paper in craft is the black sugar paper.
The genius part of her uses the floor tiles as a 'ruler' to measure and cut the material into smaller pieces. See? When crafting, all you need to be is CREATIVE 🙂 No ruler? Improvise. The floor tiles can even act as one! That's totally NEW to me 😀
She got lots of earrings and bracelets from Bali ready
A Crafty-Crafted Friend's submission of a cool storage box 🙂
Milton of Our Little Corners must have eaten ‘millions’ of popsicles for this project 😀 You may use craft sticks instead if you can’t get yourself to digest a million popsicles 😛
I’ll let the pictures do all the ‘talking’ here as he has definitely put in a lot of effort in this project! Words just can’t describe them 😀
Nothing beats kids doing arts and crafts to past time. I found a Crafty-Crafted Friend’s Mommy sharing a nice artsy time with her little princess, Chen Xi.
